Welcome to the NH News Blog of Sunday, June 21. In this live blog we will keep you informed of all the news from the province all day long.
Several drugstores and liquor stores in North Holland are closed for a few hours today. This has to do with striking employees of Gall & Gall, Etos and Kruidvat. This afternoon they are taking action at Ahold’s head office in Zaandam against the reduction in their Sunday allowance.
The parent company wants to halve that extra compensation, 100 percent of the standard hourly wage. The FNV trade union does not agree with this, and that is why it called on employees to demonstrate today, on the usual busy Father’s Day. “The management is off on Sunday, but we have to work for a meager wage.” “That’s no good,” say the strikers.