No AD delivered largely by subscribers strike printing – nrc.nl

A version of the AD in 2012. Photo: Reuters / Koen van Weel

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Due to a strike in the printing of De Persgroep in The Hague and Apeldoorn receive subscribers to the AD in the regions of Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht and Amersfoort today or not until much later their newspaper.

Readers of the Wegener titles De Gelderlander, The Stentor and Tubantia related to the strike. Wegener since this year in the hands of De Persgroep.

The printers lay last night at 23 o’clock on strike. At half past two tonight printers in Apeldoorn started again with their work. In The Hague stopped all night.

300 000 newspapers

According to trade union FNV by the strike 300,000 newspapers not printed or later. AD usually has a paid circulation of 377 thousand copies. The affected Wegener regional dailies have a circulation of 350 thousand.

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The reason for the work stoppage of the printers, according to trade union FNV “the collective lingering conflict in the printing industry.” In the graphical sector has been no collective agreements anymore since August 1, 2013. The FNV wants for the 21 thousand employees in the printing industry a pay increase a wage increase of 2.5 percent and a lump sum of three hundred euro.

“Sad”

Director of Journalism Erik Gruijthuijsen the Persgroep calls the strike on the site of the AD “sad and irresponsible.” According to him, the Persgroep with the other newspaper publishers just made proposals which were already labeled as reasonable by the FNV.

“The printers would be the same as our other employees. It is sad and irresponsible that the FNV then choose just to organize with us and just for the Saturday actions’

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