New strike will start on Sunday evening
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A new week, a new strike at the track, it seems. A new offensive starts on Sunday evening at 10 pm, this time from the smaller railway union Metispprotect. Their promotion will take a whole week, until Sunday evening March 30. First the drivers put down the work and later in the week the train supervisors. The NMBS provides an alternative service, but the traveler is asked to prepare well by regularly consulting the online travel planner.
Source: Belga
The rail unions take action against the government’s plans. Especially the measures surrounding the pension for the driving staff arouse resentment. « Railway employees have contributed for years to a solid pension greenhouse, which has now been emptied by the government. And instead of taking responsibility, we will save again on our people. That is a breach of contract that we do not accept, » said Farid Chkhachkhi of Metisp-Protect.
The trade union has around 1,600 members. Yet the promotion can be felt: about a third of the IC trains will not be exit during the first days and with regional train traffic the nuisance is even greater. Barely one in five peak -hour trains runs, according to the overview of the NMBS.
International train traffic will also be affected. Eurostar will scrap various trains between Brussels and Paris, London and Amsterdam on Monday. In addition, next week a series of Eurocity trains will also fall to Rotterdam and Amsterdam. The latter stop will be canceled up to and including Thursday by working on the Dutch track.
The Metisp Protect campaign will be made after a nine-day strike by the small rail associations and ASTB at the end of February and the beginning of March. In addition, the two largest trade unions, ACOD Spoor and ACV transcom, eighteen strike days are on the agenda up to and including July. A national strike takes place on Monday 31 March, so after the Metisp Protect strike week.
