Talks on a new supermarket pay and conditions agreement have broken down, and the FNV general workers union is planning to take industrial action from October 31.

The union is angry that employers are refusing to agree to a structural pay rise across the board and to improve the pay of young supermarket workers in particular.
The first step in the campaign will take place at the Albert Heijn supermarket on Amsterdam’s Museumplein on Saturday, the FNV said.
‘A 15-year-old shelf stacker earns €3 a hour, the price of pack of coffee,’ union spokesman Arie van der Pijl told the NRC.
‘They are paid for completing a task, not how many hours it takes them so often don’t get paid for all the hours they work. This is exploiting youngsters, rather than giving them the chance to experience the world of work.’
Some 75% of supermarket workers are younger than 23, the age at which adult pay rates kick in. The minimum wage for an 18-year-old is € 30.14 a day