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Postal workers threaten Christmas strikeFriday 04 December 2009 Postal workers employed by TNT Post will go on strike before Christmas if management does not agree to their demands for a 1.5% pay rise and a good social plan for thousands of employees who face losing their jobs, reports NRC Handelsblad on Friday. ‘The atmosphere is explosive and people are ready to take action,’ says Peter Wiechmann of the AbvaKabo FNV trade union in the paper. ‘Christmas is coming and this is the moment to strike,the paper quotes spokesman Dirk Schuurman of the CNV affiliated union and member of the TNT Post’s workers council as saying. Peter Bakker, head of the TNT concern, said yesterday that TNT Post’s volumes are expected to fall by 7%-9% next year. The company must make cuts to stay in profit, he said. TNT wants to lower salaries and is preparing to cut 11,000 of the 23,000 jobs by 2015. The unions have given TNT until next week to meet their demands. At an analysts meeting on Thursday, TNT announced that it has abandoned its ambitions to become a pan-European postal company and will instead focus on the transport of parcels and freight, reports the Financieele Dagblad. Bakker blames increasing protectionism by governments as a result of the economic crisis for the change in strategy. The Dutch postal division will be slimmed down and will deliver post just three days a week while the company’s foreign postal activities could be sold off, the paper says. © DutchNews.nl Get the DutchNews.nl newsletter in your mailbox: Click here to subscribe
My sympathies to the poor employees of this company with an already low wage... Email has long ago taken over and put a lot of pressure on postal companies... Unfortunately, postal companies have not planned enough for their future existence. Their services have more or less remained the same and only increased in price, offering nothing new to the public. If they could only realize this, and begin some new investment before they collapse. A chain of TNT internet cafes would not be amiss, and a move to the massive internet provider-market... As ever, the director is responsible for lack of innovation and stagnation for TNT. Sitting on your 'high horse', expecting everything to continue as it is....BIG mistake! Sending letter = travel to post office, take number & wait...... ..... .... walk to counter & pay for service that can take from 1 day - 2 weeks for letter to arrive. Internet = NO travel, sit at home typing letter (mail), with photos, no worry about weight, just Kilobytes, press enter, 10 SECONDS..DUH!!!) am I right or am I right on this issue??? By stevie | December 4, 2009 8:53 PM Why is it that when there are strikes, those who suffer most are the common people and not the intended victims? *sigh* By Laura | December 6, 2009 12:48 PM stevie you are right and wrong.. it would seem the mail services are losing out to email, but they also GAIN business by services like ebay and marktplaats. By Laura | December 7, 2009 10:02 AM Place your comments: |
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Ho, Ho, ho!!!
Merry Christmas to one & all!
That's my Christmas post taken care of then - saves all shopping for cards, all that painful writing, and, not to mention all that licking of stamps - oh, thank God for a Christmas postal stike.
Let's hope people don't all follow my example as that would be dreadful ... less work for postal workers!!!
By Gerard | December 4, 2009 6:15 PM