Our country is going tomorrow all the way flat by a national strike. It is a strike of “unprecedented proportions”, as announced to the trade unions. Not only the private but also the entire public life will come to a standstill. A summary of all places and services of tomorrow go down, and what you can do if the strike, you will find. The public broadcasting
the Number of staff of the vrt it will strike, is not yet clear, but the stakingsbereidheid is great, sounds at the unions. All the viewers rarely notice it, emphasises Hans Van Goethem, the spokesperson of the public broadcaster: “There we go from, because the programs and productions continue as planned.”
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there was The chance that in some mailboxes or post will end up, not in others. The national day of strikes will for bpost may per community differ. “Also for the delivery of parcels there may be nuisance”, says spokesperson Barbara Van Speybroeck. “Our distribution centers are located in industrial areas. If other companies the access roads shut down, can we also not at.”
Customers track changes of their local office best to click through the website and social media of bpost.
Education
On a day off do students not count, because at the schools where many teachers cease to be vervanglessen organized or there is childcare provided. The domes have, if there is no visibility on how big the hindrance in the education exactly: “a lot of schools will today (Tuesday) only know themselves”, say the spokesmen of both the catholic, municipal, and community education.
“In bigger cities it looks to be that a number of schools will be closed, but how is supervision for students. At the larger school boards can also care be provided in another place. We expect few problems,” says Anne Berckmoes of the EDUCATION. “Each school makes the necessary arrangements for the parents to notify what happens if certain lessons are not to continue.”
Supermarkets
are customers who do their daily shopping want to do, here and there, in front of a closed sliding door. Delhaize expects a possible hindrance in their 130 own stores. “But our 650 stand-alone Proxy, AD, and Shop’n Go stores are anyway, however open,” says Roel Dekelver of Delhaize.
Carrefour expects few problems. “The staff of our hypermarkets just got a pay raise of 2 percent, we would be regret if there should be discontinued, even though we understand it,” says Baptiste Van Outryve of Carrefour.
The supermarkets do already everything for their affiliates sufficient supplies to get. “We try as much as possible to anticipate. Products with a longer shelf-life, for example, were even this weekend.”
Albert Heijn has still no concrete view on how big the stakingsbereidheid in their shops.
Administrations
On the administrative services of the government will strike properly followed,” says Tony Six of the GCPS. “Certainly in Brussels. So, there will be a reduced service. Also justice, the closed detention centers and the prisons will participate. That means that the police will be indented in the prisons where it’s needed.”
Airports
The trade unions of Skeyes, the air traffic controllers in our country, lay the work down. The strike begins tomorrow evening at 22 o’clock and will last to Wednesday 22 hours. According to the management of Skeyes (the former Belgocontrol) the capacity of the air traffic because of this “halved”.
The halving applies to both departing and landing flights on planes. It is, finally, Eurocontrol (the European air traffic controller) that decides how the available volume of air traffic in the Belgian airspace will be divided. The capacity can be further adjusted.
Anyway, there will be Wednesday, much less flights to Belgium are carried out than normal.
As already known there will be tomorrow no aircraft of Brussels Airlines takeoff or landing at Brussels Airport. All 222 flights scheduled to be deleted. Passengers who refund their tickets wish to apply can visit www.brusselsairlines.com/refund.
TUI fly will fly the route through Lille, Paris, Maastricht, Eindhoven and Amsterdam. Travelers will be buses from and to the alternate airports. Also Neckermann/Thomas Cook brings customers round to the surrounding airports.
“there are Currently 317 of the 569 planned flights are cancelled, or 55 percent of all flights”, as was heard at luchthavenwoordvoerster Anke Fransen. Twenty-six airlines have flights to and from the airport of Zaventem cancelled.
The number of deleted flights can still grow. For the flights that were to take place, it remains the recommendation to be on time to depart and if possible, only with hand luggage to travel.
The airport of Charleroi, Wednesday will all remain closed. Travelers are advised to directly contact their airline.
The Irish low-cost airline Ryanair has almost its full vluchtprogramma from and to Belgium on Wednesday repealed. This is apparent from the flight schedule on the website of Ryanair.
Public transport
The 24-hour strike by the rail going in on Tuesday to 22 hours. The SNCB choose for a minimum service, in which, on average, half of the trains will drive. The SNCB focuses mainly on the morning and afternoon peak hours. Will the majority of the IC-trains. “Such as, for example, the major lines in the direction of Brussels”, says the spokesperson Bart Crols. Commuters could be the alternative timetables are now all looking up at the NMBS-routeplanner, via the app or the website.
The Line is expected to great inconvenience, and therefore werkwillige drivers on the main compounds. Travelers can from Tuesday evening visit to a disturbance.the line.be for updates on the strike.
The Brussels openbaarvervoersmaatschappij STIB asks its passengers to an alternative.
Who with the Eurostar to France, want to tracks, should his plans to review. The rest of the international trains as well as normal.
Municipal services
a lot of municipal services continue during the national day of strikes in close. In some cities and municipalities are going to the container park close. Of afvalintercommunale ivio can, for example, only four of the eleven places that recycle open. Also the garbage collection differs from municipality to municipality.
Some kinderopvangen stay close. That is the case in Puurs, Mechelen and Ostend, where also the municipal swimming pool in the afternoon is closed.
