Dutch Trade Unionists Rally for Crown Workers

THREE DUTCH TRADE UNIONISTS visited Crown workers back in December. They were part of an exchange program established between PACE and FNV Bondgenoten, the largest industrial trade union in the Netherlands. They wanted to get a firsthand look at labor relations U.S. style. They couldn't believe what they saw -- hundreds of locked-out workers having been replaced by non-union scabs. "How could it be; is this legal," they queried.

These noble trade unionists never forgot what they saw and experienced. Now they have established a fund for the locked-out workers. The establishment of the fund was featured in a recent article in their trade union publication, FNV Magazine.

PACE and the locked-out families of Local 4-227 express their profound gratitude to our Dutch brothers and sisters.

Crown Boycott News, July-August-September 1999