Netherlands: strike at Unilever’s finance department

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31 July 2006 à 12h40

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Thirty employees of Finance Focus, the finance department of the industrial group Unilever, went on strike on July 20, in Vlaardingen. On July 26, they gave a petition to Cees van der Waaij, the chairman of Unilever in the Netherlands, demanding guarantees for the employment of 200 people, threatened by an out-sourcing contract . (Réf. 06778)

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The Anglo-Dutch multinational indeed announced, last 6 June, the full sub-contracting of its human resources services to the company Accenture (129 000 employees in 48 countries). In addition, it signed with IBM in December 2005 a contract to outsource the financial transaction services for the European operations of Unilever – a contract which does not cover Spain, France and the Netherlands, “because of the influence of trade unions in these three countries”, estimates Lucas Vermaat, of the

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