Netherlands: one single federation for heavy and light metal industry

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ight metal industries have merged into a single federation in order to have more power against unions. (Ref. 110527)

Employers in the heavy (Metalektro) and light metal (Metaal
en Techniek
) merged, on September 6th, into one single
federation. The Federation of
Technological Employers (FME-CWM, created in 1997 after the merger of the
Federation of Metal and Electricity Industries and of a group of small heavy
metal firms from Rotterdam) thus joined the Federation of Employers in the
Light Me

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