Employees of flavor and fragrance manufacturer IFF (International Flavors & Fragrances) will stop work for 24 hours on Monday. Trade unions FNV and CNV have called for this, because collective labor agreement negotiations with the company have stalled. IFF has branches in Tilburg and Hilversum where a total of more than a thousand people work.
The unions are demanding, among other things, a seven percent wage increase and that wages rise in line with inflation.
They also want a scheme for older employees, a so-called 80-90-100 scheme: this means that this group will work eighty percent for ninety percent of their salary and build up one hundred percent pension.
CNV states that it is the first time in thirty years that a strike has taken place at IFF. According to the company, the Tilburg location is one of the largest production locations of the globally operating company.
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