From public transport on education to the post: National Strike Day of Monday will be felt
Traditionally, such a strike can be felt at it public transport: Both at the track, the line and STIB, some of the staff will deposit the work with an alternative services as a result. For details about that you wait until Saturday. STIB expects heavy nuisance and calls on its travelers to look for an alternative for movements in the capital on Monday.
It air traffic also experiences heavy nuisance. At Brussels Airport, all departing passenger flights will be canceled on Monday and nuisance is also predicted in the upcoming flights. Charleroi airport closes completely and scraps all flights.
Also in others public services the promotion will be visible. For example, the Association of Flemish Cities and Municipalities (VVSG) already warned of minimal services at a number of services, such as household waste or childcare. Citizens can best check the website or social media of their own municipality, it sounds.
By the Police and in the prisons strike notice were submitted for Monday, just like bost. How big the impact will be is to wait. In the education would put the work about one fifth of the teachers. The domes do expect that the impact will be less than during the « historical » strike of January 13, when 34,000 Flemish teachers put down the work.
At the public channel VRT Messages will be heard for the news broadcasts, but the programs will not be disturbed. The culture sector will demonstrate again on Monday at Muntplein in Brussels and the Operaplein in Antwerp. In the non-profit sector, short work interruptions or information sessions are planned here and there.
Also the shed Lay the work again on Monday, but the precise impact for shipping traffic will only become clear on Sunday evening.
A general strike also means impact commend. The trade unions will set up striking posts all over the country. A number of companies will certainly close, such as steel company Aperam in Genk or the Nike distribution center in Laakdal. In other companies, a more playful or alternative form of protest is chosen, such as the distribution of cacti with drug distributor Febelco in Sint-Niklaas or a sitting action at steel construction company Victor Buyck in Eeklo and Wondelgem.
Also some supermarkets will keep the doors closed. The precise impact remains unclear, but a few Carrefour stores in the province of Antwerp (Schoten, Borsbeek, Schilde and Edegem) and the Lidl store in Balen remain closed for at least a few hours.
Work longer for lower pension
ABVV and ACV protest with a general strike against the planned measures of the De Wever government. In the trade union spamlet, the fact is that people will have to work longer for a lower pension, will be financially punished in the event of illness or unemployment, employees will have to be even more flexible and officials will see their status eroded. Moreover, there is no room for storage, it sounds. The liberal trade union does not participate in the strike because he wants to give social consultation a chance.
On the employer’s side there is again a lot of criticism for the strike. Unizo mentions the actions harmful to the economy and « irresponsible ». She estimates the damage on hundreds of millions of euros. According to the entrepreneurial organization, the De Wever Government is not a degradation, but a reform government and the measures are necessary to secure the future of social security.
