The threatened strike at Villeroy & Boch Wellness in Roden is canceled. Employees of the company tonight agreed to their employer’s improved final offer for a new one-year collective labor agreement. The employees receive an average of eight percent additional salary.
Trade unions FNV and CNV negotiated several times this autumn with the management of Villeroy & Boch Wellness, but were unable to reach an agreement for a long time. The unions demanded, among other things, an extra 14.3 percent in salary and wanted wages to rise in line with inflation from now on. This afternoon the ultimatum expired at noon.
About a hundred employees work at the Roner sanitary company. They threatened to strike from tomorrow. But that threat is now off the table. “We had a high turnout of union members tonight,” union director Janwillem Compaijen reflects. “They accepted the offer by a large majority. This means that low incomes will gain an average of nine percent and higher incomes seven percent.
CNV negotiator Saskia Spaargaren is happy. “According to its own annual report, Villeroy and Boch performed above expectations in 2022. It is right that the people who made that possible now also see something in return.”