FloraHolland strikes passes without incident

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A 24-hour strike at FloraHolland one week before Valentine’s Day appears to have passed without significant disruption.

An unknown number of workers at the company, the Netherlands-based flower wholesale co-operative owned by 5,000 growers, walked out on Thursday evening in a disupte over the conditions being offered to 200 staff threatened with redundancy.

Around 12.5 billion flowers per year move through FloraHolland’s network of auction houses, and the weeks leading up to Valentine’s Day are a key period for the European flower ...