Oct 29, 2023 at 12:31 Update: an hour ago
Employees in the Dutch timber trade will stop work for 48 hours on Thursday and Friday. More strikes are coming, the FNV union warns.
“Even after a number of successful work stoppages in various provinces and our 24-hour strike last week, employers are still refusing to agree on a good collective labor agreement,” says FNV action coordinator Dennis Vereggen. “That is why we are now going to increase the pressure further and go on strike for two days. We will continue until our demands are met.”
According to the union, approximately six thousand people work in the timber trade. The previous collective labor agreement expired in March. The FNV previously sent an ultimatum with collective labor agreement requirements to the Royal Association of Dutch Timber Companies (VVNH). The employers’ organization rejected that ultimatum.
The 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.
It is not yet clear what the effect of the new strike will be. According to the VVNH, the impact of the first national strike day was recently limited. The employers had the impression that only a “very small group” was on strike.
“We have not received any messages from companies that they have not received wood,” was the response from the employers’ organization. The FNV in turn spoke of more than four hundred strikers.
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