The dispute over pay in local government in the Netherlands has continued over the summer. Cleaners and street sweepers took a week's strike action in support of a higher pay claim while firefighters have also joined the dispute again, saying they will only respond to emergency calls.
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Further action in municipal sector
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Further conflict possible in municipal sector
Local government unions FNV Abvakabo and CNB Publieke Zaak are concerned that municipal employers will go back on their agreement to pay a 1% salary increase this year. The rise was dependent on union commitments to negotiate on delivering efficiency savings, reducing bureaucracy and modernizing the collective agreement. The unions are putting forward a range of measures and argue that the employers should take a longer term view rather than just focusing on the need to ensure that short-term efficiency savings justify the 1% pay increase. [Read more at > FNV Abvakabo (NL)->http://www
Bargaining stalled in hospitals, further action in municipalities
The FNV and NU’91 trade unions have rejected what the NVZ hospital employers have suddenly claimed is their final offer in the negotiations covering 200,000 health service workers. The offer is for a pay rise of 13% over two years but implemented as 5% in February 2023, 5% in December 2023 and 3% in September 2024. This not only falls below the unions’ call for an immediate 10% increase but FNV and NU’91 also strongly reject the employers’ proposals on allowances related to travel and short-notice shift changes. Members will be consulted over the offer and possible action in response
Further action in hospital sector
Thousands of hospitals workers joined lunchtime demonstrations on 18 November in protest at the financial crisis facing the sector and the inadequacy of the government’s funding package. Ver.di general secretary Frank Bsirske demanded in particular that salary increases should be fully funded. Read more at > ver.di (DE)