The Netherlands: the TNT postmen turn down salary cuts

for job guarantees until 2012. The postmen have chosen a more hardline scenario: to maintain the wages but to accept the 11000 jobs cuts by 2015. (Ref. 091074)

TNT will face 5000 compulsory redundancies in the near future. The Dutch postal group, which has been gradually privatized since 1989 but has still a 19% government stake, had proposed to give up a huge social plan, if the postmen accepted a 3.5% wage cut over 2010 and 2011 with a total wage freeze in 2012. The members of the Abvakabo ci