The minority cabinet and alliance partner PVV support limiting the power of trade unions to negotiate sector-wide pay deals, the Financieele Dagblad reports on Tuesday.

The paper says the anti-Islam PVV is to launch a plan which would require pay deals to be put to a vote by the entire workforce before they can be declared sector-wide. This would give non-union members a say in wage negotiations.
At the moment, unions and employers negotiate a deal which is voted on by union members and then is applied to all companies operating in that sector, unless they have a separate corporate pay scheme, such as Philips or Shell.
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PVV parliamentarian Ino van den Besselaar said the change is necessary because unions are no longer representative of their workforces and their memberships are getting older.
The Christian Democrats and VVD Liberals said earlier they favour making it possible for companies to opt out of sector-wide agreements at times of economic crisis.
FNV spokeswoman Catelene Passchier told the paper the discussion about how representative unions are of their members is a completely separate issue.