Employees at Albert Heijn's distribution centre stopped work for three hours on Thursday to protest against the unilateral pay rise instituted by the supermarket chain earlier this week.
Albert Heijn and the unions have been battling for some time over a new AH Logistics collective labour agreement, which applies to some 4,500 employees. The protest at the distribution centre in Pijnacker is a reaction to Albert Heijn's decision to give employees a 1.75 per cent pay rise. For the unions, that offer is not enough. FNV wants Albert Heijn to give employees the security of a permanent job. "A little extra money is no guarantee that DC workers will keep their jobs. And that is precisely what the employees want: the certainty that the permanent jobs will remain. But Albert Heijn has elevated precarious work to the norm and wants the unions to sign up to an indefinite use of cheaper temporary workers. If we were to do that, the DC workers would soon have only one certainty: insecurity," said FNV Handel negotiator Özcan Colak.
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