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UNI Post & Logistics Global Union welcomed the announcement that the Netherlands Government is going to investigate whether the mail companies Selekt Mail and Sandd have been dumping on prices to try and drive out TNT. But they say the Government should also be investigating their social dumping activities.



UNI has been for some time demanding that the European Commission look into the social dumping by the mail companies in the Netherlands and has said liberalisation of the mail market is costing workers jobs, has been putting their income below social minimums and means that for the customers a quality postal service has been plummeting.



"The Dutch Government should also investigate the activities of these companies in supporting loss making operations and their failure to pay proper wages and to adhere to the social agreements that were agreed when the Dutch mail market was completely opened." said Neil Anderson Head of UNI Post & Logistics, "these companies have been not only cross subsidising loss making operations from their activities in other countries such as Germany, they have also been failing to meet their obligations as decent employers and have been exploiting their workers. Not only must the price dumping stop but the Dutch Government should be making sure the social dumping by Sandd and Selekt Mail also stops".