A 1% wage increase, a €75 annual bonus, the possibility to take five unpaid days off, a permanent contract after 3 or 6 months of interim “if there are jobs to fulfill….” The agreement in principle signed on May 17th at Sara Lee, in preparation for the new collective agreement, seems very positive to the Federation of Netherlands Unions and Allies (FNV Bondgenoten). However, the last point of the agreement seems more than hypothetical since 165 job cuts were announced on April 24th and the modalities have yet to be defined with the trade unions. Sara Lee, an American group with 41,000 employees worldwide, 1,700 of them in the Netherlands, bought the Douwe Egberts Dutch company, a coffee and tobacco maker located in Utrecht, in 1978. Nicole Boonstra, negotiator for FNV and Allies, rejoiced with the agreement on the new collective agreement, reminding that it was signed during a difficult economic situation, with the effects of the crisis fully affecting the employment market.
aker located in Utrecht, in 1978. Nicole Boonstra, negotiator for FNV and Allies, rejoiced with the agreement on the new collective agreement, reminding that it was signed during a difficult economic situation, with the effects of the crisis fully affecting the employment market.
The 1% wage increase, divided in to (December 2010 and May 2011) is in the average of current negotiations in several sectors for the 2011 collective agreements.
Planet Labor, May 21, 2010, No. 100408 – www.planetlabor.c
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