Negotiations on collective agreements CRV and Samplers
We will start negotiations for the new collective labor agreements on April 2, 2024. To determine the commitment to these negotiations, we receive ideas and wishes from the members. Which matters in the current collective labor agreements do they want to change or add?
Based on the previous collective labor agreement negotiations, we currently expect that we will in any case make proposals on
- extension of the RVU scheme (= financial support to stop working a few years before state pension age);
- make agreements that will ensure that the personal DI budget will be spent better and more often;
- adjustment of the travel expenses and home work allowance;
- a wage increase that leads to at least the maintenance of purchasing power and possibly to an improvement in purchasing power.
Wage/income
We would like to provide a brief explanation on this point.
The previous collective labor agreements on wages at CRV were/are:
Collective labor agreement January 1, 2022-January 1, 2023: 2,25%
Collective Labor Agreement January 1, 2023-June 1, 2024: (17 months): 8,5%
According to the latest data/estimates from the Central Planning Bureau (CPB), there will be a purchasing power decline of 2022% and 2023% in 5,8 and 6,7 if there are no collective labor agreement increases.
For 2024, the CPB expects a purchasing power decline of 3,3%. So without collective labor agreement increases, there would be a decline in purchasing power over the period 2022 to 2024. 15,8%.
From this figure we must of course deduct the collective labor agreement increases that we agreed with CRV during this period: 10,75%. If we do that, CRV employees will suffer a loss of purchasing power of 5,0%. We believe that we must repair this loss of purchasing power in the upcoming collective labor agreement negotiations.
In addition, will De Unie in principle also improve purchasing power. The extent to which this is possible or successful naturally depends largely on the business economics of the company in question. The business economic situation at CRV and the developments in the sector in which CRV operates are currently and in the near future (very) difficult and 'challenging'.
The members have received an invitation to respond to the representative before March 20, 2024.
If you have any questions regarding this message, please email jan.admiraal@unie.nl
