Niederländische Gewerkschaften drohen mit landesweiten Streiks wegen Renten- und Arbeitslosenreformen
https://nltimes.nl/2026/03/03/dutch-unions-threaten-nationwide-strikes-retirement-unemployment-reforms
Von insomnimax_99
Niederländische Gewerkschaften drohen mit landesweiten Streiks wegen Renten- und Arbeitslosenreformen
https://nltimes.nl/2026/03/03/dutch-unions-threaten-nationwide-strikes-retirement-unemployment-reforms
Von insomnimax_99
10 Kommentare
Some context for non Dutchies: We recently got a new government, and one of the main pieces of legislation they are proposing is a significant increase in retirement age. They are proposing to raise retirement age with 1 year for every 1 year of increase in life expectancy. Understandably this has made a lot of people quite upset.
The kicker is that we *just* reached a major agreement about retirement reforms, that got the support from both employers and unions after a very long process of negotiations. They are throwing that all out now with the ink barely dry. Even employer interest organizations are scratching their heads about that one, while the unions are, obviously, furious.
Up the unions. Solidarity from Ireland.
The real concern is the amount of boomers being payed for doing nothing, having payed for no one except those 2 guys not dead at war (because « we payed all our life »), and wanting us to continue to pay them.
Our generation should stop paying for retirement.
As much as I dislike increasing pension age, what can the government realistically do? Millenials and genz dont have children. Who is going to play for pensions? Government money aint endless – if you spend 30 years working, when 30% of your income is spent on pensions, how do you expect they will pay your wage for 30 more years?
Keep it up, we have the same here in Germany but nobody cares. Merz is removing the social state and gets a treat from the orange buffoon.
Oh and btw. everyone I know loves it and blames the immigrants. Germany is transforming back to its roots pretty fast 🙁
Do they have a plan to keep them solvent without changing the retirement age? Otherwise, too bad. Sometimes tough decisions have to be made.
> Under current proposals, individuals in their 20s could have to work until age 72.
Wow that’s just terrible. An increase in life expentancy does not imply an increase in quality of life, grandma is pushing 90 but she has alzheimer’s disease.
Are we really surprised that our welfare state honeymoon is coming to an end when we’re at crossroads with close to zero birth rates?
We don’t even have a totally independent defense system and russian aggression is no longer an If, but a when.
Maybe we needed a buffoon like Trump to realise that we need to strap our boots and change the way the economy has been handled for the past 50 years.
Anything but tax the rich
The fact is that the system is unsustainable with a declining population. Anyone who is retired and didn’t have 2+ children is a net drain on the system and screws over future generations.
We need massive reform, but this will NEVER happen in a democracy where a plurality of voters are 60+ years old. Infinitely increasing immigration for the rest of time is also obviously unsustainable in the long term. Workers will be sucked dry until the system collapses.