Public transport across the Netherlands came to a near-standstill on Tuesday as workers staged a 24-hour strike called by union FNV (the country's largest trade union federation) in protest against government cuts to social security. Trains, buses, trams, and metro services were severely disrupted, with national rail operator NS cancelling almost all services except a limited shuttle between Amsterdam Centraal, Schiphol Airport, and Hoofddorp. The action is part of a broader wave of industrial unrest ahead of Prinsjesdag (Budget Day, the annual presentation of the Dutch government's spending plans), with port, waste, cleaning, metal, and construction workers also planning stoppages — as unions demand the complete rollback of proposed welfare cuts, rejecting a partial reversal the cabinet announced last week as insufficient.