OPINIE - OPINION Vicky Rymen: "Race-to-the-bottom never sectorally negotiated"

Marc Geerts, CEO of transport company Geerts is 200% in favour of giving drivers higher pay. That is already good to know. But at the same time, he is dissatisfied because a colleague of his actually realised this in his company recently. Indeed, logistics service provider TDL Group was the first Belgian company to conclude a collective agreement with the trade unions that links the existing job classification system to the pay of its drivers. Thanks to that agreement, drivers’ wages are increasing, for some even by two euros gross per hour, and they have the prospect of a better pension. “But this way, we are going to nick each other’s drivers,” Geerts responded in an opinion piece on Flows.