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Minister 'concerned' about cleaners' strikeFriday 12 March 2010 Social affairs minister Piet Hein Donner is to ask cleaning sector unions and employers for an update on the long-running pay dispute in the sector and says he is 'concerned' about the vulnerability of contract cleaners, news agency ANP reports. However, the minister told MPs on Thursday he could not intervene in the dispute, even though it centres on state-owned companies Dutch Rail and the Schiphol airport group. Socialist, Labour and GroenLinks MPs had asked the minister and finance minister Jan Kees de Jager to use their influence to urge the NS and Schiphol to respect workers' rights. Cleaners have been taking industrial action for three weeks in support of their pay claim. But on Wednesday, it emerged that NS managers on some stations had been taking over cleaning duties and an email had been sent to all staff asking for volunteers to clean up platforms and trains. NS and Schiphol cleaners are not employed by the organisations themselves, but work for commercial contractors. The unions are demanding a 3% pay rise. © DutchNews.nl Get the DutchNews.nl newsletter in your mailbox: Click here to subscribe
It is a good decision that Managers should clean the train. Let them taste the bullet.... By jerry | March 12, 2010 10:57 AM A three percent pay raise is well below any true measure of inflation. Prices on many things have visibly doubled in the last few years. Nevertheless, the elites running the show will use the rampant unemployment to slam even these modest requests down. This is what happens during an engineered financial crisis, three percent to the cleaners is just not possible when there are bankster bonuses to be paid. By Prince Burnhard | March 12, 2010 3:45 PM Have a heart, Prince Burnhard, they just a gave a whopping 1% increase to the supermarket workers. Surely they've done their bit for the common man this year? By J. | March 12, 2010 4:25 PM The Dutch will reach a face-saving compromise, having first exhausted all other possibilities. By Bruce | March 12, 2010 5:24 PM Everybody in the Hague is concerned, but unwilling to raise a finger. By Vogon Poet | March 12, 2010 6:55 PM |
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I think they deserve a pay rise,it's a thankless job, someone has to do it. Ann
By Ann Murphy | March 12, 2010 10:53 AM