Bulletin
The principle under which certain privileges or benefits accorded by management are only applicable to trade union members has been at the forefront of recent discussions throughout the Belgian trade union movement. It has been applied in the tobacco industry, where, under the terms of an agreement recently reached between management and the trade unions in the industry a bonus of 900 Belgian francs ( six pounds nine shillings) is to be paid this year to all workers belonging to a trade union working in factories producing cigars, cigarettes or tobacco, provided they remain permanently in the industry and*the trade union movement, Such a bonus was first paid to workers in the tobacco industry in 1963, but at that time it amounted to 750 francs (about five pounds seven shillings)