Advertising
Trade union Ver.di demands a 4.8% increase, or a minimum of €150 per month, for some 2.3 million federal and local employees over the next year. Because the first round of negotiations with the employers failed, the union launched a campaign of short strikes to press their demand, including hospital and child care centre employees and drainage workers. The next round of negotiations is scheduled for October 23 and 24.
Read on: in English ...
For more information, please contact Paul de Beer or Oana Ciuca or Sjaak van der Velden, De Burcht (Scientific Bureau for the Dutch Trade Union Movement) p.t.debeer@uva.nl or the Head of communications at the ETUI, Mehmet Koksal mkoksal@etui.org.
For previous full issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit www.etui.org/E-Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter or consult the archive with all articles in our database at www.cbnarchive.eu.
You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org.