In Flanders it is about the prisons of Antwerp, Turnhout, Wortel, Ghent, Hasselt, Leuven Centraal, Leuven Help and Mechelen, in Brussels for Haren and Sint-Gillis. There is a strike in all prisons.
Like other employees of public services, the guards are displeased with the plans of the De Wever government to touch the civil servant pensions. In addition, De Smedt also criticizes that the coalition agreement remains “vague” about measures to tackle the overcrowding and the shortage of staff in prisons.