Former Heiploeg workers sue Dutch shrimp company for lost benefits, claiming bankruptcy was a sham
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Dutch News] July 22, 2014
Trade unions are going to court over the bankruptcy and restart of shrimp company Heiploeg in an effort to preserve worker pay and conditions.
Heiploeg, fined €27m last November for its role in a massive European shrimp cartel, went bankrupt at the beginning of this year but relaunched almost immediately as Heiploeg International.
The FNV and CNV unions say the bankruptcy was a sham. ‘At no point was production stopped, the organisational structure is the same and so are the clients,’ the unions said in a statement...
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