Unions and works council at TNT Post have rejected a revised company offer to reduce the number of compulsory redundancies from 4,500 to 3,500.

‘The total of 3,500 is still too many,’ works council chairman Bernard de Vries is quoted as saying in the Financieele Dagblad.
Last week, TNT said it was prepared to reduce the total by an ‘important’ amount but did not give concrete figures.
TNT Post plans to reduce its workforce by 11,000 jobs, or 8,600 full-time positions, by mid 2013, generating savings of €430m by 2017.
TNT says the shake-up is necessary to enable it to compete with budget delivery firms such as Sandd which do not formally employ delivery workers.