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On Monday, 6 November, FNV Recreatie and CNV Vakmensen negotiated with employer organisations HISWA-RECRON about a new CLA for the 15,000 employees in the holiday recreation sector, which is to commence on 1 January 2024. This was only the second meeting since negotiations started at the end of September. The salary offer presented by employers is deemed unacceptable by FNV Recreatie and CNV. They are therefore urging their members to make their voices heard during the Day of Recreation on 6 December at Archeon.
HISWA-RECRON wants to agree on a CLA for 2 years with a salary increase of 8%, spread over 4 indexation moments on 1 January 2024, 1 July 2024, 1 January 2025, and 1 July 2025. Employers were not willing to come up with a better proposal. This meagre offer (which is slightly more than 3% per year) is miles away from what we are asking for: 14% for a 1-year CLA. This is a slap in the face for all loyal, hardworking, and professional employees in the holiday recreation sector. The negotiation process is characterised by employers' delay tactics. Only at the end of last week – less than two months before the Updates CLA recreation expires – did employers come up with CLA proposals. Additionally, an earlier planned negotiation day (24 October) was cancelled by employers, and they previously did not want to respond to the unions' salary proposals.
Johan Bijlsma, union representative FNV Recreatie: "Employers are still not willing to come up with a substantial salary offer to sufficiently compensate for the lag in salary Your career due to inflation. While the holiday recreation sector has been doing very well for years. Although meetings with HISWA-RECRON are scheduled for 21 and 27 November, there is no confidence that HISWA-RECRON will then come up with an acceptable salary offer. I therefore want to urge all employees to come en masse on Wednesday, 6 December 2023, to the event in honour of the Day of Recreation at the history museum Archeon in Alphen aan den Rijn and to show that recreation is a wonderful sector that deserves more. It should not be the case that working conditions revert to medieval times."
FNV Recreatie and CNV Vakmensen are very concerned about the purchasing power of recreation employees. During the term of this CLA, given the enormous cost increases and high inflation, substantial salary increases are needed to maintain purchasing power. Due to the continuous postponement by employers, the time to reach a good and decent CLA is becoming very tight.
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