Until recently, the Delta Lloyd insurance company had a rather good reputation with the unions, and its current economic position is strong. However, recently the Delta Lloyd management only proposed worsening pay and conditions for the new collective agreement, thus infuriating employees and their unions. According to FNV Bondgenoten union negotiator Bob Bolte working conditions deteriorated after the firm got a Stock Exchange listing two years ago. After a number of savings rounds, work pressure has been lifted to often unacceptable levels, employees say. On 24 November, the three unions involved (besides Bondgenoten also the CNV Dienstenbond and De Unie) have sent a letter to the Delta Lloyd management, asking them to come up with an improved offer.
Dutch: http://www.fnvbondgenoten.nl/mijnbranche/bedrijven/delta_lloyd/nieuws/425475_woede_onbegrip …
This article was published in the Collective Bargaining Newsletter. It aims to facilitate information exchange between trade unions and to support the work of ETUC's collective bargaining committee. For more information, please contact the editor Maarten van Klaveren, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) M.vanKlaveren@uva.nl. or the communications officer of the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova mnikolova@etui.org. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net. © ETUI aisbl, Brussels 2011.