UK-based union Nautilus International and Dutch shipping employers have agreed a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) giving Dutch merchant mariners an innovative framework to help them take advantage of a Netherlands’ central pension agreement on early retirement.
Nautilus and the Dutch Association of Employers in Commercial Shipping (VWH) agreed the CBA which covers about 3,000 seafarers working on Dutch-flagged ships.
The most important part of the deal is that employers will contribute a sum...
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