Netherlands -Strike action of cleaners continued -March 01, 2012

Cleaners continued their strike combined with creative action, demanding a new collective agreement for 150,000 workers laying down better pay, including sick pay, but also enough time to do the job properly, and more respect and appreciation. In already nine cities they organised, jointly with their union, FNV Bondgenoten, “Marches for Respect”. On 27 February, some 2,000 cleaners held a sit-in at the Utrecht University campus. The strikers have got quite some support, both national and international. For example, on 28 February, a delegation of the 10,000-member Union of Clients of Financial Institutions, employees of the ING Bank and cleaners handed over a petition in support of the cleaners’ demands to ING management in Amsterdam. Earlier, on 15 February, a delegation from the Belgian ABVV/FGTB confederation and UNI Europa gathered in front of the Dutch Embassy in Brussels and met with the representative for Social Affairs to express their solidarity (See also this Collective Bargaining Newsletter Year 4 December 2011 and Year 5 January 2012).

English: http://www.uniglobalunion.org/Apps/uni.nsf/pages ...  

Dutch: http://www.fnvbondgenoten.nl/mijnbranche/branches/schoonmaak/

 

This article was published in the Collective Bargaining Newsletter. It aims to facilitate information exchange between trade unions and to support the work of ETUC's collective bargaining committee. For more information, please contact the future editor – as from the March 2012 issue – Jan Cremers, at the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) cbn-aias@uva.nl, or Mariya Nikolova mnikolova@etui.org, communications officer at the ETUI. The editor of this issue was Maarten van Klaveren, M.vanKlaveren@uva.nl. For previous issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit http://www.etui.org/E-Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net. © ETUI aisbl, Brussels 2012. To unsubscribe, please contact Mariya Nikolova.

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