Ook Vlaanderen fought with people who don’t work for their own sake: “I had work, that is my afgepakt and now I’m a ‘profiteer’”

The reportage about long-duration work in Verviers was played in chocolate golf, but the phenomenon was not noticed by anyone in Wallonia. One reporter went to the Pad op Linkeroever in Antwerp, the largest city of Vlaanderen, and also the city with the largest factory. Hij ontmoette he and the other Gerrit (48), ex-dokwerker. “Al tien jaar ben ik aan het genieten van die centjes van den dop,” says Hij. Well Chantal (51) doesn’t want to go to sea. “I had a job that was secured with me and now has the stamp ‘profiteur’. Well, I don’t need the role with pleasure on my part.” That’s a long time coming.

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