Lummen, The general strike of the trade unions has Friday morning clearly feel in Limburg. Both the exits of the motorway E314 in Terlaemen, Park Midden Limburg, as well as to the industrial estate Zolder-Lummen were blockades raised. The federal police came regularly on site to the files on the afslagstroken to protect.
“Our purchasing power is restricted, and it is exactly that we respond,” says Andres Vandereycken of the FGTB. “Whether there is grumbling by the blockades? That is actually very good. We get even earlier sympathiebetuigingen. There are, of course, there is always that what is hunted, because they had to wait. But when we explain why we stand here, they understand it very well. After all, there is a lot of anger against this government and the employers.” The federal police asked regularly for the blockade to lift, to files to on the highway to avoid.
walk for Miles
On the busy intersection of the Dellestraat with the Westlaan to the business Lummen-Zolder was Friday morning also picket. “I’ve got four kilometres back and can walk to my business to get,” says driver Gustaaf Donny. “I came from Volvo’s lesson to follow with the truck to learn to drive. Very annoying. I understand that strike best. But why do you need this each time the public road shut down?” Also many other employees got a few miles to get to their business to get to. On foot if everyone Friday morning.
Poorer
“If we were somewhere on a secluded little square, standing up to take action, we have of course also not have any effect with our actions,” says vakbondsafgevaardigde Erik Stevens of the concrete plant in Kinrooi. “We get the traffic police-the order to the traffic again to show, and that’s what we do also. I understand that it’s annoying for the people who are required to remain still. But this action is simply necessary. We are all poorer in recent years. That feels every workers who is going to work? The VAT has increased, fuel taxes go up and our wages do not go. View at the end of the month where once more what remains. It is for that that we take action, it is time that our purchasing power rises again.”
