Members of public sector trade unions have voted to accept a pay agreement which runs from 1 January 2024 to 30 June 2026 and provides for pay improvements worth 9.25%, but because of flat-rate elements this can be up to 17.3% for lower paid workers. This agreement also provides specific provisions for local bargaining, which will give trade unions the scope to negotiate up to an additional 3% of pay costs, including allowances for particular grades, groups or categories of employees. The agreement also sees the full and final unwinding of austerity measures dating from 2009.
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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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