The union common front reacts on Tuesday with “consternation” at the agreement on night work as part of the labor market reform. The executive “echoes the demands of employers by trying to put consultation in all its aspects out of the game, without seriously addressing the global issue of e-commerce“, denounce in a joint press release the socialist, Christian and liberal unions.
Nic Gortz, CSC union representative, was on the microphone for RTL info 13 Heures: “It’s a big scam in the sense that the main problem in Belgium is wages. Here, we are compressing working time. The question is whether people will use this to work in four days and be home followingwards; or like in the babysitting sector where they already have the possibility of compressing their schedule into four days a week but where most people do ‘taxi’ work to make ends meet.”
Social peace is won, but not with the government by lobbying
The organizations believe that the government and employers are demonstrating a “tight vision” Who “will not bring the breath necessary to perpetuate the distribution sector“. They remind us that “more than 500,000 workers, at the very least, are concerned” through e-commerce.
“The government had committed to a wide conference on the subject. Once once more, he tricked the workers by finding agreements in the cozy lounges of the kern and with the help of (the trade and services federation) Comeos”shoot the unions.
For the latter, the objective is to “set up discount night work on the Post NL model, with precarious jobs”. “We will continue the work started, namely a real debate on e-commerce and the future of commerce, fairly, in the sector and in companies”, warn the unions. “Social peace is won, but not with the government by lobbying”, they conclude. It should be noted that if the agreement was welcomed by French-speaking employers, Comeos and the UCM in the lead, the reception is much colder in the north of the country, where Voka considers it too light while Unizo evokes a ” missed opportunity”.
