The NS reported on Tuesday {that a} new proposal has been despatched to the unions. The railway firm hopes to place an finish to the nice unrest among the many employees. Main strikes have introduced rail site visitors to a standstill in latest weeks. The unions have introduced new actions, together with these scheduled for subsequent Friday.
The NS now proposes to boost wages by 5 % with retroactive impact from 1 July this 12 months and to present workers a one-off cost of 650 euros. An extra 2.5 % could be added on 1 January. Moreover, the administration needs to “make agreements on methods to take care of the uncertainty of the inflation improvement” and, amongst different issues, lay down a minimal wage of 14 euros within the collective labor settlement.
Janssen calls the invitation from NS a primary step to restart the negotiations. For instance, he’s interested by what the NS thinks concerning the inflation correction. “Our members need computerized worth compensation.” There should even be extra readability about “work-life steadiness”. Janssen, then again, calls the minimal wage of 14 euros advantageous. “That was our proposal”.
The commerce unions FNV, CNV and VVMC will collectively talk about the NS provide on Wednesday morning. CNV’s collective labor settlement negotiator, Jerry Piqué, mentioned on Tuesday night: “So far as I’m involved, we’ll take into account the provide and I’ll talk about it with the collective labor settlement committee. We’ll talk about the result of that session with the opposite unions on Wednesday.”
The NS introduced on Tuesday night that it might await the result of the commerce union consultations. “We now have taken a primary step in the direction of agreeing a collective labor settlement. The unions indicated that they want time to reply to this. We’re awaiting that consequence. We hope, in fact, that we are going to sit down quickly and that there might be no new actions.”
The following strike is scheduled for subsequent Friday within the northwest and west areas. This contains Schiphol Airport and main cities similar to Amsterdam, The Hague and Rotterdam. Moreover, the unions introduced strikes on Tuesday 13 September within the east, south and north areas and on Thursday 15 September within the central area.
