Non-profit workers are demonstrating this Thursday in Brussels to demand more resources and stop the staff shortage. The unions hope to bring together more than 10,000 people to attract the attention of policy makers.
Non-profit workers will march through the streets of Brussels this Thursday to demand more resources and attention for the sector. United as a common front, the unions are expecting more than 10,000 people and want to interrupt the “negative spiral of staff shortage”. The action will disrupt the operation of several services locally, particularly in schools.
The demonstrators will gather from 10:30 a.m. near Brussels North station and will then march through the capital.
With this action, workers in the care, social assistance, childcare, disability, socio-cultural and even education sectors want to put themselves on the agenda of those responsible and negotiators. policies, particularly at the federal level.
“We are not protesting for the sake of protesting, but if we look at the leaked notes and the savings announced, we find the lack of attention paid to sector personnel very alarming,” explains Nathalie Lionnet, federal secretary of the socialist union Setca.
Trade union organizations are also concerned about “total blur” surrounding the government agreement at Walloon level. However, they welcome the “change of direction” and investments promised in Flanders for the non-profit sector.
Whatever the level, unions warn of a general shortage of staff which leads to an increase in the workload, with “infernal cadences”. To end this situation, “it takes a real investment”, they emphasize.
The common union front recognizes that more resources were freed up during the Covid crisis but that they are not sufficient to hire staff, improve working conditions and remuneration or even intensify training.
Brussels non-profit sector demonstration
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