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Employers indicate that their backs are against the wall and the impossible cannot be demanded by the unions. 

With a short email to the members, Royal Dutch Transport confirmed that there is a dialogue with the trade unions again. The employers' organization did not provide any substantive explanation given the tenor of the discussions. A well-attended digital Cao sounding board group meeting was held last Friday.

The Cao employers' delegation updated the members about the situation surrounding the Cao negotiations and the actions and strikes that were held in several places on Friday. The outcome was that agendas were drawn up and consultations were scheduled again with trade unions FNV and CNV. It is clear that both employers and employees see the strikes as a diabolical dilemma.

Every decision-making is about taking into account the rights, interests and wishes of everyone affected by the decision. But those rights, interests and wishes clash with each other. That's what makes it so difficult.

The FNV has now definitively determined the wage demand, now that Statistics Netherlands has published the inflation figures for October, the percentage by which wages must be increased in the coming year is 14,3% as far as the FNV is concerned. It is therefore time that the consequences of years of squeezing the sector to the bottom are stopped. In all sectors, unions are winning wage increases of an average of 12%.

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Students must be spared during work interruptions and strikes.

In a call, Pupils' Interest in Secondary Special Education (LBVSO) to spare the students during the use of work stoppages and strikes as a means of pressure towards employers. There is understanding that a better collective labor agreement must be drawn up, but vulnerable children cannot be the victims. Meindert Gorter, trade union director FNV Taxi, says in a tweet that drivers 'may of course go on strike' as long as there are other views on living wages and respect for the sick driver.

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Employers indicate that their backs are against the wall and the impossible cannot be demanded by the unions. On the other hand, the various political parties are calling on employers to come to an agreement quickly. The parties drew attention to the poor payment of the drivers. “A starvation wage,” admitted the minister. He drove himself in a minibus. The driver told the Minister that he gets twelve euros per hour. “The water is on their lips”. So let's wait and see what the talks yield.

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