Staff to strike at FloraHolland as Valentine's Day looms

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With little more than a week to go until Valentine’s Day, Europe’s biggest flower shipper is embroiled in industrial strife which seems likely to lead to strike action.

According to the unions, there are no plans for further negotiations, before a 24-hour walk-out scheduled for Thursday evening this week.

The dispute centres on plans for 200 redundancies and is a troublesome welcome for the group’s new general manager, former Maersk COO Lucas Vos, who took over as general manager at FloraHolland in ...