A collective labor agreement does not come about by itself. What we can achieve at the negotiating table depends on what you and your colleagues find important. Without your input, we cannot make proposals that really connect with what is going on in the workplace. That is why we have started holding polls.
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After our first poll on salary, we asked you last week to also fill in the second poll on leave. Great that so many of you did that, thanks for that!
When asked if you are satisfied with the regular leave, a majority finds the current regular leave sufficient or good. However, about 1 in 3 experiences it as insufficient. A clear minority with a serious signal.
The question about satisfaction with additional leave arrangements (parental leave, care leave and generation pact) gives a similar picture as with regular leave: there is predominantly satisfaction, but the group that finds it insufficient is substantial. Care and bereavement leave in particular are named as inadequate in terms of content.
When asked which form of leave members consider most important (think of care leave, generation pact or parental leave), the generation pact appears to end up at the top. This poll confirms the importance that members attach to a healthy and gradual retirement. The diversity of other ideas shows that there is a great need for personal customization.
Key signals from the comments
The open answers contain many valuable additions:
- Bereavement leave is not adequately regulated and should be better designed as a separate arrangement.
- Informal care comes up several times. Members explicitly ask for leave that allows for care for parents or partner.
- Inequality in access to leave is being addressed. Colleagues without children or caregiving duties sometimes feel disadvantaged, they ask for compensation (for example, ADV retention or shorter working week).
- Financial barriers to leave, especially emergency leave or unpaid leave, are experienced as a bottleneck.
- Parental leave remains challenging to combine with work pressure, especially for managers and infrastructure employees.
- Demand for flexibility in leave types and working hours is growing.
Poll on Sustainable Employability
This time we ask the members three questions about Sustainable Employability. We will use the input again to determine our proposals for the new collective labor agreement. The members have received an invitation to fill in the poll. You can do this until July 4, 12.00:XNUMX noon.
Continuation
In our next message we will ask your opinion about informal care. We will also share the results of the poll on sustainable employability. Together with you we will build our proposals for the new collective labor agreement Metal and Technology.
With more members we achieve more!
With more members we can achieve more. That is why we advise you to forward this newsletter to your colleagues who are not yet members of De Unie, so that they can also join us and be informed of the latest developments in this process. Via this link your colleagues can easily become members of De Unie!
We will continue to keep everyone informed of the next steps in this process.
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If you join now De Unie, you have influence on your own employment conditions. You don't leave that to your colleagues, do you? In addition, as a member you are assured of the best support, legal and otherwise, if things go wrong at work. And of course, as a member you can always use our service center for all your questions about work and income.
Contact
If you have any questions or comments regarding this message, you can contact the advocate Suat Koetloe via Suat.Koetloe@unie.nl.
