FNV warns of exploitation in transport Mercedes cars – Financieele Dagblad

When transporting Mercedes passenger cars in Europe, are being exploited Eastern European drivers. To that conclusion after union FNV own research.

The drivers receive a salary of € 200 per month and 17 cents per kilometer, while they are mainly working in Western Europe. In comparison, the base salary for Dutch drivers is ten times higher. From that small monthly salary is also deducted a further € 100, from which the drivers themselves have to pay the cost of any damage.

Mercedes-Benz does have a strict social policy, which also applies to subcontractors. But according FNV is that policy in practice a paper tiger. The union spoke with dozens of drivers who work for a Romanian branch of the company Holdmayr that subcontractor’s Mercedes. They would feel discriminated against and exploited.

According to Edwin Altena FNV has this state of affairs only losers. “Eastern European drivers are exploited and bona fide employers and their drivers are pushed out,” he says. “It should do no more than normal drivers, of whatever nationality, to be paid in accordance with the standards which they actually work.