15
Belgium's big break? Largest trade union calls for five more vacation days
(www.brusselstimes.com)
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
15 points (94.1% liked)
Belgium
828 readers
2 users here now
Welcome!
This is a community about Belgium. Feel free to post news, memes or anything related to Belgium.
- Dutch, French, German and English posts and discussions are allowed.
- No racism or bigotry.
- Be civil: disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally insult others.
- No spam posting.
- Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).
- Shitposts and memes are allowed until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
- No trolling
Community Links:
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
The measures planned for Huntsman include reducing the presence in several European countries. “As too Moving to facilities that reflect the company’s future needs and an intention to move some jobs to new locations note that is HQ (not a plant, ie driven by energy costs). Also note that they reference inflation, but this 'only' impacts this place by means of wage cost. The HQ is being relocated to a place with 'better' conditions (in the EU for now, but mainly Poland).
Soooo, they aren’t leaving lol
Their plan is definitely to leave locations where working conditions are not in their favor. Not so lol for the people losing their jobs, though right? :-(
Yeah, that’s what capitalists have always done. That’s no reason to not fight for better working conditions.