Due to a strike by the NS staff there are almost no NS trains in Brabant and the rest of the country on Friday. The strike started at 4 am and lasts until Saturday morning at 4 am.
The staff of the Central Netherlands is ceasing and that has consequences for train traffic throughout the Netherlands, because the Utrecht region is an important junction and the train schedule is planned there. Also, no buses are used. Because fifty people fit in a bus and a thousand in a train, so there is no rectifying.
Not expected traffic
The ANWB thinks that there are not many problems on the road, because there are barely any traffic jams on Friday. The ANWB does expect that the beginning of the Pentecost weekend can lead to more crowds in the afternoon. Most traffic jams are expected on roads in Noord-Brabant and Gelderland, with a peak between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. Friday afternoon.
The expectation is that the timetable will start again on Saturday morning immediately after the strike. They would ride again according to the regular schedule on Saturday, the Dutch Railways said. According to a spokesperson, this is because the trains at a 24 -hour strike are exactly in the right place to continue.
New strikes announced
The staff stops because the FNV trade union demands a wage increase for train staff. She finds the wage increase of 2.55 percent on an annual basis too low in view of inflation. In 2022, NS employees were given more than 9 percent and in the previous CLA, which ended on 1 March, the unions and NS agreed a wage increase of 6.6 percent on average.
Strikes have been announced again next week. On Tuesday in the West Netherlands and Thursday in the northwest and eastern Netherlands. On Monday, June 16 (North and southern Netherlands) and Tuesday 17 June, more strikes may follow if the conflict has not been resolved by that time.