Thousands of workers demonstrated to demand better wages after a national day of protest was called by the main trade unions. Around 6,000 demonstrators were out in the capital to protest against stagnating wages amid rising inflation. Demonstrators also criticised the recent convictions of some trade unionists who were sentenced last year by the Belgian courts for their participation in illegal protests.
Read on: in English.
For more information, please contact Paul de Beer or Oana Ciuca, De Burcht (Scientific Bureau for the Dutch Trade Union Movement) p.t.debeer@uva.nl or the Head of communications at the ETUI, Mehmet Koksal mkoksal@etui.org. For previous full issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit https://www.etui.org/Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter or consult the archive with all articles in our database at www.cbnarchive.eu.
You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org.