From March 4 to 17, 2024, employees in the Technical Wholesale sector were able to assess the new collective labor agreement negotiation result for 2023-2025. A large majority of the votes cast said 'yes' to this negotiation result.
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Research agency Innervoice has determined the following results:
7449 employees cast a vote.
These employees voted as follows:
• 4733 employees agree with the collective labor agreement negotiation result: 64%
• 3175 employees do not agree with the collective labor agreement negotiation result: 36%
Read here more about the official results of InnerVoice.
This result means that there is majority support for the negotiation result and as a result, the collective labor agreement negotiation result can be converted by The Union into a new collective labor agreement.
Process
The fact that all employees in Technical Wholesale were allowed to cast their votes is no longer new. Most people are now used to this at Technical Wholesale all employees can participate in discussions and help decide on the content of the collective labor agreement. As in previous collective labor agreement discussions, we use our DigiC model (https://www.digic.nl/).
De Unie and the Employers Technical Wholesale (WTG) commissioned research agency InnerVoice in November 2023 to test whether the extensive collective labor agreement research from November 2022 was still up to date and therefore useful. We did this by holding 6 panel discussions/meetings with representative groups of employees.
The collective labor agreement study of November 2022, supplemented with the results of the panel discussions, ensured that we knew exactly what we had to negotiate with the WTG and what our negotiating space was.
The negotiations were somewhat 'different' than usual.
First, we received a final offer from the WTG on December 21, 2023, which was suddenly withdrawn by the WTG the day before we were to put it to the vote.
The discussions and negotiations with the WTG were subsequently restarted and led to a negotiation result on February 22, 2024..
Click here for a further detailed explanation of the course of events. There you can also read the November 2022 research, the additional research, our commitment letter and our interpretation of the final negotiation result.
How further?
Naturally, the collective labor agreement parties strive to find support from the largest possible group of employees. Although the negotiation outcome has the support of a large majority of employees, it is also important to consider the concerns of employees who could not agree with the outcome.
De Unie as mentioned, will sign the collective labor agreement.
In addition, it will be up to us in the near future to carefully analyze the outcome of this referendum together with the WTG and to include it in the periodic discussions. Many employees have taken the opportunity to provide an explanation for their vote. It is and remains important that all employees continue to be involved in and retain control over their employment conditions.
Click here for our Technical Wholesale sector page.
Contact
Are there any questions and/or comments regarding this message? And if you want to email the representative about this, please send an email to jan.admiraal@unie.nl
