Belgium - General strike at Carrefour Belgium - February 26, 2010
For Saturday 27 February, the SETCA/BBTK, LBC-NVK, and CNE unions
announced a general 24-hours' strike at Carrefour Belgium. They argued
that with the selling or closure of 21 stores of the
supermarket/hypermarket chain the sustainability of the entire Belgian
part is at stake. They said that already for a decade they have been
asking for a commercially ambitious plan, not once a cost-cutting plan
at the expens! es of th e workers. Also, the unions demand the upcoming
discussion on the collective agreement to take place in the framework
of collective bargaining for the retail sector at large. English: http://www.uniglobalunion.org/Apps/iportal.nsf/pages/homeEn?Open ... Dutch: http://www.standaard.be/artikel/detail.aspx?artikelid=VE2MPHFS; French: http://www.7sur7.be/7s7/fr/1536/Economie/article/detail/1072528/2010 ...
For more information, please contact the editor Maarten van Klaveren, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) M.vanKlaveren@uva.nl. You may find further information on the ETUI atwww.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net. © ETUI aisbl, Brussels 2009.
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Mar 12, 2010
