About three hundred bakers will lay off work for two days tomorrow. They do this because there is no new collective labor agreement yet. These are employees of Bakery Borgesius in Arnhem and Aalsmeer and Dutch Bakery in Eindhoven.
“This is just the beginning, we will scale up to nine companies next week if the employers do not come along,” says FNV director Ron Vos. He cannot say whether that will lead to empty shelves. “It won’t be too bad: I don’t think we’ll run out of bread any time soon.”
FNV demands automatic price compensation. That equates to a wage increase of 14.3 percent. But the bakeries do not want to go beyond 6.75 percent. The unions also want workers in this sector to be able to take early retirement.
”The bakers can’t do anything with the stingy 6.75 percent extra salary that employers want to give them on average per year. It’s great that the employers are also proposing to improve travel costs, but we don’t settle for crumbs,” says Vos.
A total of 51,000 people work in the sector. 7,100 employees work in the industrial bakeries and 43,900 in the craft bakeries.
2023-06-07 11:34:11
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