In the Netherlands, strikes are shorter and shorter and less and less harmful for economic activity, underlined the Central Statistics Office (CBS). (Ref. 070371)
According to figures published on April 23, only 11,000 employees took part to the 31 strikes counted for 2006 (as opposed to 28 in 2005.) It is ten times fewer people than in 2004 and three times less than in 2005. If strikes were relatively plentiful – renewing with a level that had not been reached since 1989 – one third of them lasted for one day only. No more than five strikes last over five days. A total of 16,000 working days were lost last year, as opposed to 42,000 in 2005 and 245,0
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