{"id":152587,"date":"2023-03-28T10:53:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T08:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=152587"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:26:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:26:42","slug":"travelling-protest-against-flex-contracts-the-collective-labour-agreement-negotiations-will-be-fierce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2023\/03\/28\/travelling-protest-against-flex-contracts-the-collective-labour-agreement-negotiations-will-be-fierce\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelling protest against flex contracts: \u2018The collective labour agreement negotiations will be fierce\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The AOb\u2019s \u2018What the flex\u2019 minibus visited the universities with the most flex contracts last week. Erasmus University Rotterdam is in the top three, so the bus arrived on campus Thursday morning. \u201cThe problem is getting out of hand.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Executive Board member Ellen van Schoten receives the AOb's recommendations.<\/span><\/p>

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During the next collective labour agreements negotiations, one item will be at the top of the agenda: more permanent contracts and thus more clarity and stability for employees. To let educational institutions know that the AOb is committed to the cause, the union is driving around the country this week in a \u2018What the flex\u2019 minibus. The bus is staged as a mobile rehab clinic against temporary contracts. The four union staff members on site are therefore dressed in white lab coats.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a light-hearted demonstration, but the problem is getting out of hand\u201d, says AOb board member Douwe van der Zweep. \u201cPeople are postponing things in their personal lives because they have no clarity. The workloads are high. Temporary contracts create an unsafe work environment: colleagues become competitors due to the scarcity of permanent appointments. Many of those affected are lecturers, which is a fundamentally necessary position.\u201d In 2021, 75 percent of lecturers and 57 percent of the assistant professors at EUR had a temporary appointment<\/a>. Among associate professors, this figure was 7 percent.<\/p>\n\n\t

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