BKV strike in Budapest soon?

According to vs.hu, BKV (Budapest Transport Company) didn’t give a reasonable offer, so a BKV trade union envisaged a strike. Only the day of the work stoppage must be determined. It will also happen a few days, if the capital doesn’t give more increase than the promised 2%.

The labor dispute on wage increase has been last between the City Public Transport Workers’ Trade Union Federation (VTDSZSZ), the Budapest Transport Trade Union Confederation (BKSZSZ) which is the biggest trade union of bus drivers, and the BKV for several weeks. These two representative trade unions have 7 thousand members from the 12 thousand employees of BKV, where the number of union members is around 8-9 thousand.

BKV offered a 2% basic wage increase on April 30 and guaranteed the same amount of last year’s cafeteria, that is, the monthly HUF 5 thousand and the HUF 36 thousand Erzsebet vouchers at the end of the year. However, the two representative trade union want more, a basic wage increase similar to the public transport companies of the state and to those capital-owned companies where the increase happened.

Although BKV indicated at the Tuesday collective labor dispute that a higher offer was is possible in the future, but it couldn’t tell neither its extent nor the date. VTDSZSZ couldn’t do anything with this vague promise, and they already rejected the offer together with BKSZSZ. The BKSZSZ position hasn’t known yet, but the board of VTDSZ authorized the chairman to begin organizing the strike, vs.hu said. VTDSZSZ chairman Attila Gulyas informed about it Tibor Bolla, CEO of BKV.