Result strikes at VDL NedCar: job losses

Posted on 08-01-2016 at 20:51 by Dizono – 37 Comments”

All those people who by Wim van der Leegte of the work are saved, who have found it necessary to the past years several times the work to put down. As a result, the to BMW promised production figures is not achieved and becomes a part of the production to England moved.

Self-made businessman Wim van der Leegte was at the end of 2012 the hero of Limburg through his company, VDL NedCar and BMW as a customer to attract. Production would be only about one and a half later on corridor, but staff was very helpful, paid. A dream solution, where we, in addition, in place of suffige Mitsubishi Coltjes now a beautiful product from our own country saw come: the MINI and the MINI Convertible. Finally some good news from the ailing sector.

Three years later, all that VDL NedCar employees suddenly pathetic. Sad because they are 3 percent too little money and is not itself allowed to choose when exactly they work. At least, that they find in the FNV (For the younger readers: the FNV is a trade union, a strongly in popularity declining authority which defends the rights of workers and thinks things can solve with werkweigering). And so was the work in 2015 is repeatedly shut down, since there is so need to be discontinued. Refugees to work in the metal industry, more specifically in the Born, would that not be a good idea…?

The outcome of that strikes is not hard to guess: the BMW promised objectives about the amount of produce’MINI ‘ was not met. Although BMW the link itself does not submit, they a larger part of the production of the MINI-hatchback to the British Oxford move. Therefore, the Dutch factory gedwonen farewell was going to take dozens, especially in temporarily connection working, employees. VDL NedCar-member of the board Jan Mooren see the link, and puts that in an interview with the Financial Newspaper, not under the chairs or sofas-he loves the trade unions directly responsible for the loss of jobs.

According to him, a conflict between the trade unions and the employers ‘ organisation FME, to where only a number, especially with the average Dutchman well-known companies, the brunt of it. Except VDL NedCar were also DAF in Eindhoven and Scania in Zwolle hit by strikes. A just thing, because a major customer if BMW can also just back the move production to a country where it’s certain that the people there do want to work.