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Commuters' misery to continue as rail workers join transport strike
Jan 13, 2010, 15:54 GMT
Budapest - Hungary's largest rail union said on Wednesday that it would come out in sympathy with public transport workers in the capital, who are two days into an indefinite strike over pay and conditions.
The four-hour rail strike will begin at 4 a.m. on Thursday and will be focused on Budapest's main railway stations, Rail Workers' Free Trade Union leader Istvan Gasko said, as quoted by the state news agency MTI.
The action will only add to the woes of commuters in the Hungarian capital, many of whom were left standing in the cold on Tuesday morning as buses and trams stopped running.
Unions representing roughly half of the 12,000 employed by Budapest's municipal public transport company BKV are participating in the industrial action over pay and bonuses.
Talks between unions and the firm collapsed again on Wednesday, the leader of the strike committee told reporters.
'BKV has made no new offers, and the strike committee is sticking to its position,' Gabor Nemes said.
The heavily-indebted public transport company maintains that the new work agreement it put on the table would increase the take home pay of most employees by 13 per cent.
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