Again there is the knife in PostNL: 700 jobs lost – AD.nl

Again there is the knife in PostNL: 700 jobs lost – AD.nl

By: David Bremmer
12-2-15 – 05:04

Letters in rural areas by bike and scooter worried

A sorting PostNL. © anp.

After last years all postmen already been dismissed, now is the management of the spool at PostNL. Under the name of Davis Cup disappearance of 150 jobs in marketing and sales. When the car company PostNL certainly five hundred jobs are deleted.

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The company wants to post many letters in rural areas no longer deliver by car, but by bicycle and scooter. Reason for topvrouw Verhagen has to cut 550 jobs at the dealership.

At the same time apply hundreds of marketers and other sales staff currently on their own function. PostNL hopes to save tens of millions of euros. Another reorganization found under the heading “Project Go ‘place at the customer contact centers.

This is evident from an internal presentation that this newspaper has managed to lay hands on. According to insiders, the great unrest and many staff choose their own initiative eggs for money.

Very worried

Even PostNL can not keep track of it all in reorganizing

CNV

Public Service Unions CNV and FNV Abvakabo are very concerned. ,, We are being bombarded with emails and phone calls from employees, “says CNV director Aynur Polat. Tonight keep the unions in Zwolle a meeting for representatives of employees of the dealership. According to the unions are at the dealership not 550, but 1200 people dupe because many get another job.

The posttak PostNL dominates the necessary schadenfreude. ,, It is time that the marketing and middle management are next. The managers are always respected and that the decrease mail volumes also unchecked know to call, “said one employee.

The cutting is necessary because people send fewer letters and cards, spokesperson Hanne Kluck of the postal service. Since 2004 Dutch do 40 percent fewer letters on the bus and drop sets hard. Previously dismissed the postal service all 10,000 full-time postmen and traded them in for cheap part-timers.

CNV requires clarification PostNL. ,, Even PostNL can not keep track of where it all in reorganizes. The employees do not work for a company, but a reorganization company called TNT. “So the 200 employees of the PostNL sorting Arnhem held two weeks back another wildcat strike.