Netherlands: Struggle for affordable housing intensifies with protests in multiple cities
Activists from various youth & student groups, feminist groups, trade unions and political parties marched for housing rights on the call of #Woonrevolte Amersfoort, a housing rights coalition.
As Dutch government resigns, left calls for parliamentary inquiry
The Dutch government resigned two months ahead of the general election over a child care subsidy scandal in which thousands of parents were wrongly accused of fraud
Dutch socialist youth demand abolition of first class in railways to prevent overcrowding
Even during the raging COVID-19 pandemic, trains in the Netherlands have been running with overcrowded second class coaches and almost vacant expensive first class coaches
Dutch metal workers’ struggle for a fair labor agreement bears fruit
The new Collective Labor Agreement, reached after several months of intense bargaining between trade unions and employers, proposes a phased salary hike of nearly 8%
Transport strike by Dutch trade unions brings country to a standstill
The unions, including the FNV, the CNV and the VCP, demanded that the government freeze its plan to increase the current retirement age of 65 to 67 by 2021
Teachers march in the Netherlands, seeking investment in education, higher wages
The strike was called by the General Education Union (Aob) and the trade union FNV Onderwijs en Onderzoek, and supported by action groups such as PO in Actie, VO in Actie, and FVoV. The teachers are seeking a 4 billion euro rise in education spending
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