The unions deny that they have had a new wage offer for employees in Albert Heijn’s distribution centers. To their surprise, the management of the supermarket chain announced on Tuesday that it now wants to increase wages for roughly 6,000 employees by 10 percent, but that the unions are not in favor of this.
“We don’t know anything,” says the spokesman for CNV Vakmensen. ,,The only thing that happened is that Albert Heijn invited us on Monday evening to sit around the table again. We then asked what exactly they wanted to come with. We never heard anything about it after that.”
His FNV colleague also says that Albert Heijn has not come up with a concrete proposal. “They only let us know that something could be changed about the irregular hours allowance. That is also an important point for us, that these benefits do not deteriorate, not even for new employees.”
Strike continues
Albert Heijn announced earlier in the day that it had raised the wage offer, but that the supermarket chain was ‘extremely surprised’ that the unions had rejected that higher offer. AH has not yet responded to questions about how this yes-no situation could have arisen.
The unions say that the strike in the six distribution centers will continue. That means that the empty shelves in the stores are not over for the time being.