Strikes in Hungary?

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I heard from a friend that there was an indefinite strike at the airports in Hungary. Found this on Libcom news:
http://libcom.org/news/strikes-hit-hungarian-transport-industry-15122008

Does anyone have any updates on this? Is the airport strike still ongoing?

B.

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The railway strike is in its 2nd week now and will probably last during christmas. On Monday evening union officials met to negotiate. Result uknown.

From what I understand, the Ferihegy airport strike is still on (today -Tuesday- 14th day). However, there are no canceled flights anymore despite the 30 min. late departures. Of 242 airport workers 99 strike. The were replaced by 40 specialists from Greece and 38 hungarian workers who stopped their holidays leave and went to job. Management of the airport refuses to accept all 12 demands including new collective agreement and better working conditions.

Info is from mainstream media (from Monday, 22th Dec.)

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Railway workers strike ended this morning. To be precise "was stopped".

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Bosses are using now offensive class war method - in several regions workers who are in probation period and took part in the strike are being fired.

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MT, do you live in Hungary? Thanks very much for your useful info.

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I am from Slovakia. Slovak media inform about the strike quite frequently but mostly shortly. At least something. I was thinking to get more info from Hungarians but the contacts there to class oriented activists are basically none. I will try to contact someone because this seems really serious.

There was also a strike emergency on Slovak railways (since 4th December i think but I am not sure) where 6000 workers were said to be fired. Then Prime Minister said he won't allow a single job to be lost. Finally after some 2-3 weeks the emergency was called off (last week if I remember well).

There are some 9 or so unions on railways in Slovakia and their negotiations are always crazy, not being able to come to common conclusions. Also unions fight each other. One of the engine drivers union now has moratorium on accepting new members. One of the reasons is that people join for reasons like jumping on a strong "train", in other words, they don't like to have members who just come for what the union offers (gains). The situation is really complicated and we haven't been able to have more insight in it, unfortunately.
Anyway, I know of no solidarity messages to striking workers in Hungary (which doesn't mean nothing happened, only that there is no info on this). During the strike some trains that cross Slovakia were cancelled. Government said they will not demand Hungarian side to pay for this breakdown. That is basically most of what I can tell concerning this matter.

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Many thanks for the input MT, it's good to hear about things from your side of the world!

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The problem is with the Hungarian railway strikes that it is nothing to do with class or class struggle. This railway union - Democratic Union of Railwaymen - is an organization of the now opposition right-wing populist party FIDESZ. The stirke - opposed by all the other railway unions - is for ununderstandable, purposes (the 250.000 hufs for example - even railwaymen do not believe in it), more a part of the general tactics of this opposition against the neoliberal (so called "socialist") government. Anyway, from my point of wiev all trade unions are just tools for the establishing of social order and democratic dictatorship against the proletariat, but in this case the situation is more clear: the leaders of the strike are just well paid politicans, working in an inter-bourgeois debate between liberal gouvernment and right wing opposition, and of course its price is paid by us - both "ordinary passengers" and railwaymen - all proletarians nevertheless.

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Apparently the airport strike is back on.