“We sometimes joke against each other: if you are not called a day for cancer whore, you haven’t done your work.”
She says it with some spot. But actually the 41-year-old conductor Priscilla thinks it is howling. Almost every day she hears stories from colleagues who have to deal with aggression and violence on the train or at the stations.
Also in Noord-Holland. Is so Conductor Sander In June 2024 beaten by a traveler without a ticket. The train was stopped at Heiloo station. “It wasn’t just a push, it was a fist with a lot of strength. It just has to be ready once.”
Chief conductor abused, wrist broken
A year earlier at Schagen station stabbed a conductor. A group of boys came to the rescue.
And very recently a chief conductor was abused in the Intercity from Amsterdam to Hoorn. The man became soaked The NHD wrote that he broke his wrist. The perpetrator could not be identified because he had false papers with him.
“Everyone behaves like a jerk,” says Priscilla, also working at trade union FNV.
Conductors like they have too few powers to really intervene, but the moment it threatens to escalate, she evokes employees of service and safety.
For those people, the Dutch Railways have now applied to the Ministry of Security and Justice.