'NS must make haste with second conductor'

"This appointment has been made ​​last year. NS lingers and delays. The recruitment should now start as soon as possible, "says Evert Jan van de Mheen, director of CNV Professionals.

The unions have an urgent meeting this afternoon with NS after Wednesday again a violent incident occurred at a conductor. In a fight between a zwartrijder and a conductor of the Limburg Landgraaf in a train of Deutsche Bahn was a 48-year-old German guard with a sharp object inserted into his stomach.

second conductor

"One of the most important agreements we have made ​​with each other last year, the appointment of a second conductor on trains after 22:00. That appointment does not come off the ground. NS should have started long ago with the recruitment, "says Van de Mheen.

For the Union of Driving Staff VVMC has had enough. "This must be stopped. Should then drop dead first? "Said Wim Eilert, director of VVMC. The union demands next rush with two conductors on the train also of NS and the government that there will be more immediate support to the trains and platforms.

"All steps put '

NS thinks the running of two conductors to need on a train in the evenings 300 to 400 conductors. The rail operator says above all to have put the first steps. "All night trains and in the early mornings working for two conductors on the train," said Martijn Kamans NS. "Adjusting the rosters is a puzzle in which we are doing. With the unions, we are discussing how we can arrange the layout work differently. "

This Thursday will be addressed in the consultations that NS with the unions following the stabbing in Landgraaf.

Anne-Fleur Pel / Metronieuws.nl/ © Photo: Reuters