05 Nov 2023 at 12:40
Employees in the Dutch timber trade will stop work again on Monday. This is what the FNV and CNV unions report. The unions want to enforce a better collective labor agreement with these actions. The work stoppage follows the national 48-hour strike last week.
“Employees in the timber trade will be leaving work for the tenth time next Monday. They do not agree with their employers about the wage increase in the new collective labor agreement. These people just want decent compensation for inflation,” says director Saskia Spaargaren of CNV.
“But the employers’ offer is far too meager. The strikers are steadfast and their numbers are only increasing.”
“Our members are becoming increasingly militant at more and more timber traders in the country. During the first national 48-hour strike last Thursday and Friday, they told us to strike again on Monday. Because even after a number of successful work stoppages in various provinces and our After a 24-hour strike the week before, employers still refuse to agree on a good collective labor agreement,” says FNV action coordinator Dennis Vereggen.
Employers’ organization wants to talk
About six thousand people work in the timber trade. The previous collective labor agreement expired in March. FNV previously sent an ultimatum with collective labor agreement requirements to employers’ organization VVNH, the Royal Association of Dutch Timber Companies. FNV wants employers in the timber trade to include a structural increase in all monthly salaries by 100 euros gross and an additional 6 percent wage increase.
The VVNH has said that it wants to continue discussions with the unions about a new collective labor agreement. According to the VVNH, invitations to talk to each other again are being “declined or ignored” by the unions.
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