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Home » Flight tickets » Long queues at Schiphol expected due to customs actions
Long queues at Schiphol expected due to customs actions
If you fly from Bangkok to Schiphol at the beginning of next week, you are probably out of luck due to long waiting times at customs. Passengers at Schiphol will be faced with actions by customs officials next Monday and Tuesday. They will check the suitcases of all passengers as part of actions for a new collective labor agreement.
Normally, arriving passengers' baggage is randomly checked and most people can pass through after taking their baggage off the carousel. Trade union FNV expects long queues due to the actions.
The unions thus harden the actions of government officials that they have been conducting since May to increase pressure on Minister Blok of the Interior. Today, about three hundred employees of the Tax and Customs Administration in Venlo stopped work for two hours. The 120.000 civil servants demand a 3 percent wage increase after having been on the zero line for four years. They have not had a collective labor agreement in recent years.
Bullying burger.
I understand that the civil servants, after years of sitting on the zero line, want to add 3% now that the economy is improving. BUT:
Actions like this are simply unsympathetic and you really need the sympathy of the citizen in this (as is also the case with the actions of the police). Why not just let everyone through, so without checks? But that would be dereliction of duty and therefore punishable. Then again, they don't care about that.
It is a pity that the unions cannot come up with more original actions, for example together with the police (who are also campaigning) and, for example, to close off the Binnenhof from the outside world. So that the canteen there is not supplied either, no toilet paper is supplied. Then you hit the people who deal with the new collective labor agreement (minister). Now citizens (and also foreign visitors) are the victims of a conflict in which they have no influence and are not a party.
Unfortunately, citizens will be worse off if they are not affected by actions themselves. I am a civil servant myself and I find it ridiculous that we have not had a collective labor agreement for four and a half years. And when Minister Blok, in consultation with the trade unions in April 2015, came up with a proposal for a 0,5% wage increase for 2015 and a 0,5% wage increase for 2016 and provided no compensation for the 4 years of zero and only negative measures. comes, then the measure will be full. If the unions then withdraw from the consultation because they are not being taken seriously, Blok also dares to claim that there is no room for discussion with the unions. Who would be responsible for the fact that there has been no collective labor agreement for so long? The government should be ashamed of how it treats its people. This action might make people think about what is going on in the government and how they treat its staff.
Just let my girlfriend arrive on Tuesday from Bangkok… nice to have such a first introduction to the Netherlands. I understand that there will be actions, but it is very annoying that this affects a large number of people who want to get to know our "hospital" free country.
I mean of course “hospitable country”
I don't think this works.
The space at the international baggage carousel is quite small and if you prevent passengers from going outside, while the influx of passengers continues, then within a few hours you will have several thousand passengers and a panic will break out.
Nico
I can't imagine they will let literally 100% of arriving travelers open their bags for checking. Within a few hours, a large part of Schiphol will be full of travelers who can no longer even reach the area with the baggage belts. Would cause massive chaos and disrupt the overall logistics at the airport. Ultimately, this would also endanger safety and that is completely unacceptable
Doesn't make any sense, worthless action.
Go bully those responsible for your salary.
No understanding at all
completely agree makes no sense at all they should not bully ordinary citizens but think of another way to get their way !!!
As if VVD minister Blok would lose sleep over that for even one second. Citizens, including many international travelers, are being punished for something they have no part in.
Moderator: the rest is off topic.
When people take action for better working conditions or higher wages, they often do so on their own
own workplace. So there are people who suffer from that. If no one would care
can they take action until year “tich”.
Cor van Kampen.
Thais who fly to the Netherlands have been warned: Be careful what food you bring to the Netherlands.
They will probably go hard for just that one fake article too many.
Well, after almost 12 hours of flying, an hour of waiting can still be added……… (sigh).
Why is only incoming traffic checked?
Let them also check all those Dutch people who go on holiday,
because they immediately know what is wrong in the Netherlands and its politics!
Putting all those 'civil servants' on non-'active'.
Problem solved.
There are enough hard work willing others to be available to them.
Indeed, what Dennis proposes. Close off that 'courtyard' so that “those” who are responsible for it are 'caught'.
“They” (Cabinet, ministers and members of parliament) in it.., but not let out and blocking the supply !!
But no, bullying a citizen, foreign tourists and visitors.