Staff of aircraft components builder Fokker in Hoogeveen will put down the work tomorrow. According to trade unions FNV and CNV, the company is falling short of making agreements about a new social plan.
Fokker is planning to implement a reorganization, where employees lose their jobs. This applies to the Papendrecht location, but according to the trade unions is also a possible scenario for the locations in Hoogeveen and Helmond.
In a social plan, rights and obligations are laid down for employers, for example in situations where jobs disappear. FNV label the current social plan as ‘completely undressed’. The commitment is a ‘decent social plan’ for the next three years.
Negotiations between Fokker and the trade unions started in February but ran out of nothing. Last week there was already a strike at the Papendrecht location and tomorrow a 24-hour strike will follow in Hoogeveen, where about eight hundred people work.