1988. szeptember (209-245. szám) / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2
« Hj t? N 6AR1AN ® 6T00&RJ!? -1 ©$m£ Editor: György Krassó * 24/D Little Russell Street « London, WC1A 2HN * Tel. 01-430 2126 (from abroad 441-430 2126) 216/1988 (E) 3rd September, 1988 More Workers Strikes in Hungary Following the successful August 23rd Pécs and Koralo miners strikes the Hungárián raass média has reported two further strikes by workers in the last eight days. On August 26th workers in the Gyomaendrod plánt of the Kner Printers stopped work fór an hour as a waming bút on Monday August 29th they did nőt work at állj their fellow workers in Békéscsaba promised to strike in solidarity as well. That day ended with success. Two days later nearly three hundred workers in the Angyalföld Visoram Spectacle-Frame factory, a subsidiary company to the Granvisus factory in Esztergom, went on strike. The action here alsó only lasted a day because by the afternoon the Ministry of Industry had satisfied the workers demands. The printers in Gyomaendrod demanded the retirement of a manager uho was dismissed at the beginning of the year bút who had been reinstated by the Workers Gonciliation Board. The workers in the Budapest Spectacle-Frame factory wanted the dismissal of their managers to be revoked. In the latter there was a conflict of interests-betveen the main factory in Esztergom and the Angyalföld subsidiary: generally in Hungárián industry the principle company’s profit is guaranteed by its subsidiary, greater economic results would be attained if they were to become independent and if they were liberated from centraliséd bureaucracy. The strikes in Pécs, Gyomaendrod and Budapest were rapidly and successfully con- cluded. The government intends to stop these strikes with minor demands from expanding and from becoming carriers of more övért political demands. Subscribers can use or quote the Hungárián October newsletters in totál or in detail as long as the source is acknowledged. . ______j
