Despite several protest strikes earlier this year, the government has persevered with an agenda which includes limiting the role of union representatives in the workplace and cuts to social security. Under the new laws, trade unions will now have to pay considerable fines if they organize a strike which the court later deems to be illegal. Individual workers will be subjected to fines of more than € 200 if they continue a strike after the court has ruled it to be illegal. The fine is to be paid directly to the employer.
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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.
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