Unions issue ultimatum
Peace seems to have returned to a certain extent at VDL Nedcar for the time being. After two days of wildcat strikes and blockades around the company, production resumed on Friday.
Production at VDL Nedcar was restarted on Friday. VDL announced this on Friday. With that, it seems to remain with two days of wildcat strike for the time being. It broke out on Wednesday after the failure of negotiations between Nedcar and the unions about a new social plan. The unions believe that owner VDL offers too little, VDL believes that the unions ask too much. The unions did not support the wildcat strike.
However, according to some employees, not everyone is at work, two production lines are said to be standing still. According to an employee of Nedcar, who is a member of the Belgian trade union ABVV, the employees went back to work ‘with the knife to the throat’ on Friday. According to him, this happened under pressure from the unions and after VDL had threatened to take legal action against the unions and against employees who did not go to work. A spokesman for the company called ‘nonsense’ that VDL would have threatened to take legal action against the union and employees.
In any case, the cold is not over for VDL Nedcar. The unions have issued an ultimatum, which expires on Saturday afternoon. Then they threaten a 48-hour strike early next week. According to VDL, production resumed on Friday because the unions have issued the ultimatum.
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