New day of regional transport strike today

On Wednesday and Friday, regional transport employees will strike again for this collective labor agreement.

Strikes in the north all week

In addition, actions were announced for Tuesday and Thursday in Friesland and Groningen by regional transport employees of the multimodal collective agreement, which mainly includes train staff. Friesland and Groningen will therefore have to face a strike in public transport every day this week.

The strikes take place because employees of companies like Arriva, Qbuzz and Keolis want more wages and believe that measures need to be put in place to reduce the workload.

Negotiations for the collective labor agreement with the employers’ association VWOV are still deadlocked. The employers have already indicated on several occasions that they cannot offer what the unions are asking for.

Government intervention

Because the collective bargaining dispute continues, the FNV actually thinks the government should intervene.

FNV director Marijn van der Gaag said last Friday that regional transport employees were partly overworked because providers reduced, for example, breaks or regular hours during tenders.

The FNV holds the government co-responsible, because it was the government that devised the tendering system. “Left or right, we just want this resolved,” Van der Gaag added.