Two weeks of reduced cleaning at REC as 80% of cleaning staff go on strike
As a result of a nationwide strike, fewer cleaners will be working at the UvA over the next two weeks. At the Roeterseiland campus, around 80 per cent of cleaning staff are reportedly taking part in the strike, as was the case in September.
Some of the cleaning staff at the UvA will stop work for the next two weeks as part of a strike. The nationwide strike, organised by trade union FNV, will continue until Monday 23 November. According to the UvA, around 80 per cent of cleaning staff at the Roeterseiland campus are taking part in the strike. The university is unable to say what impact the strike will have at its other campuses. FNV has also declined to comment on this.
The UvA says it will ensure that essential cleaning tasks are carried out “as far as possible” despite the strike. Toilets and teaching spaces will be given the highest priority, ahead of offices and meeting rooms.
FNV
This is not the first time that FNV has called on cleaning staff to go on strike. Two months ago, some UvA cleaners also took industrial action. According to an estimate by Facility Services at the time, around 80 per cent of cleaning staff at the Roeterseiland campus took part in the strike.
FNV announced yesterday that it would be calling another strike because the union is dissatisfied with the collective labour agreement reached by employers’ organisation Schoonmakend Nederland and trade union CNV. FNV has therefore not signed up to the agreement. A large gathering is also being organised in Amsterdam on Friday 20 November.
