Unions: too many cuts in municipalities – Parool.nl

Unions: too many cuts in municipalities – Parool.nl

25-08-14 11:58 pm – Source: Reuters

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“There are examples of municipalities that more than half cut the budget for guidance and daily activities of the disabled and the elderly. ” © think stock

More and more municipalities are being cut much more than the government in The Hague imposed. Before warn unions FNV, CNV and VCP today in an open letter to all councilors in the Netherlands, in the run up to new policy coming months wordy established. In the letter they call to stop their “austerity.”

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Too much cutting means, according to the unions even more people lose their jobs. Money that is actually for example home care is sometimes spent on other things.

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According CNV chairman Maurice Limmen some municipalities shorten more than the prescribed 32 percent on home care. “There are examples of municipalities that more than half cut the budget for counseling and day care of disabled and elderly.”

FNV chairman Ton Heerts fears that the “double cuts in care ‘soon many people in big trouble. “Nursing homes are closing, but municipalities also then cut homecare way. Who’s taking care of our elderly and chronically ill? “”