Municipal employers targeted on 18 June

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Thousands of members of FNV Abvakabo and CNV Publieke Zaak trade unions from local government joined a demonstration in the town of Hendrik Ido Andacht on 18 June. Their target was the congress of the VNG municipal employers' organisation. After 18 months without a renewed collective agreement and no progress in negotiations the unions are stepping up their campaign. There was also strike action by municipal workers in Amsterdam, Groningen and Utrecht on 16, 17 and 18 June and the unions say more industrial action may follow unless the employers return to the negotiating table. The unions are mobilising around the call for respect, jobs and purchasing power and want a 2.5% pay increase this year and 3% next year.
Read more at > FNV Abvakabo (NL)
And at > CNV Publieke Zaak (NL)

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