Antwerp, The trade unions also called the Antwerp staff of the Trade in order to by half past nine flocking to the parking lot of the Ikea in Wilrijk. Only fifty or so employees of Ikea and other large retail chains on the Boomsesteenweg went in on the invitation to take part. “A number of hit here, however, just not through… the strike of The Line,” said Erik Dirckx of the BBTK. “Especially people from the direction of the city, getting here is very difficult.”
the entrance of the car park of the Swedish furniture store was a picket is erected. “The shop remains open as normal and we will prevent nobody to come shopping,” emphasises Erik Dirckx. “Our reaction is not against the shoppers directed against the government and the employers. Against the government because, if they are on one thing ever were the past few years than it was in their anti-social policies towards the employees. Compared to the employers because they are us, in the framework of the IPA negotiations (Interprofessional Agreement), an ever smaller part of the pie award produced by us, and year after year increases.”
Also on the Meir went about twenty vakbondsmannen with pamphlets along the shops of big chains to their colleagues to inform about the strike.
