Trade union FNV hopes Picnic will backtrack on its refusal to apply the supermarket collective agreement. On Tuesday, FNV gave the app only supermarket a second ultimatum: if Picnic does not comply within ten days, a summons will follow.
This writes the FD in response to a summons letter from FNV to Picnic. According to FNV, the fast-growing supermarket earns millions by evading collective bargaining agreements. "Picnic is a supermarket in everything and calls itself that. The people who work there are entitled to decent wages and other working conditions," said FNV executive Marianne Jekkers.
Picnic: 'CBA does not fit our rhythm'
In mid-February, FNV gave Picnic its first ultimatum: a supermarket collective bargaining agreement or legal action. Picnic chose the latter at the time. "We are not against a collective agreement, but it must be a collective agreement that fits our rhythm," Muller told RTL Z. "Those agreements are 50 years old. Then a student who works on Sundays can be paid double and a stay-at-home mum who can only work during the week cannot."
Muller did state that he was willing to talk further with FNV, for example about a collective agreement for the e-commerce sector. "But we did not come up with a new plan within a week," he said.
FNV ultimatum
FNV is now giving Picnic ten days to backtrack on that decision. The union stressed that a conversation only makes sense if it is about applying the collective agreement.
