TNT offers talks while postal workers strike
Postal company TNT has invited postal workers’ unions to meet on Friday in an effort to end the impasse over their wage demands.
The invitation comes on the second day of a new series of industrial action, which began on Monday 19th May in The Hague and affects Nieuwegein.
TNT hopes the unions will attend the meeting to try and break deadlock. The CNV union says it would be impolite to turn down an invitation.
Postal workers want a rise of 3.5 pct in wages this year. TNT is offering 1.5 pct this year and another 1.5 pct in 2009.
A 30-hour general strike is planned for May 28.
