The railway company had advised students to reach their accommodation before 10 p.m. on Sunday evening. For Monday, it forecasts that one in three trains connecting major cities (IC) will run. All rush hour (P) trains will be canceled.
In the prisons, the agents were already covered for any stoppage at 10:00 p.m. on Sunday, but a representative of the CGSP estimated that the strike would mainly be felt from 6:00 a.m. on Monday and for a duration of 24 hours.
The FGTB, the CSC and the CGSLB fear “a frontal attack on pensions” from the negotiators of the “Arizona” coalition (N-VA, Vooruit, CD&V, Les Engagés and the MR) at the federal level. “Everyone has the right to a decent pension. But if trainer De Wever wants to make three billion savings on pensions, it is the workers who will pay the bill,” warn the unions.
