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Call for renewed efforts to resolve Budapest Airport dispute
6 February 2009
Civil aviation unions are urging fresh negotiations between Hungarian unions and management at Budapest airport to help reestablish social dialogue.
The unions, attending the civil aviation steering committee meeting of the ETF, the ITF’s European arm, in Budapest yesterday, issued a statement in the hope that a good collective agreement that respects wages, working conditions and the rights of workers can be brokered.
Last December workers represented by Hungarian unions, the LESZ and RDSZZ, based at Ferihegy Airport in Budapest, took strike action after managers terminated their collective agreement. Strike-breakers were also reported to have been brought in to replace the workers. Managers have since been unwilling to enter into proper negotiations that take into account the unions’ legitimate requests.
ETF Civil Aviation Political Secretary Francois Ballestero said: “We are asking airport management to re-instate any striker or trade unionist who was dismissed because of the industrial action and oppose any new attempt to hire strike breakers in the future. We also want the airport management to reopen negotiations with the unions and have suggested bringing in an independent mediator who can help improve dialogue between the unions and their employer.”
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