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vho has been Iáid off in a group vith at leaBt nine others qualifies fór •ssi8tance.) And then tbe representatives of the trade unión nare unable to find an explanation" fór thia pbenomenon (HETI VILAGGAZDASAG, 21 March 1987), vbereas specifically tbe aforementioned resolution instructB tbe trade-union locale to submit reports only on lay-offe affecting at leaBt 10 persona. And they are likevise unable to explain vby tbe vorkers at tbe Áron Gábor írón Föundry valked out from tbe meeting vben a representative of the Iron-and Steelvorkers' Union began explaining to them vhy the obsolete blast furnaces had to ehut dovn.

The interest8 of employees have to be protected first or all from the protectorB spravled in their offices.

There are certain dogma6 to vhich the trade-union bureaucracy subBcribes.

The three dogmáé to vhich the trade-union bureaucracy atubbomly clinge, and on vhich it6 role and directing authority vithin the pover atructure rest, are as follovs:- The trade unión has a dual role: it mobilizes the vorkers to build socialism, and it alsó representB their intereets.-The trade unión as a eingle, integrated organixation has exclusive right to represent all vage and salaried employees.- The trade unión's internál organixational structure has to mirror the branch structure and territorial hierarchy of public administration.

Economic and social progress has made these dogmáé outmoded long ago, and even originally they had been hard to defend.- The trade union's mobilixing role has lost ite practical significance; the only good that comes from proclaiming this role is that doing so discredits the efforte to safeguard the employees' interests.- Having emerged from the generál pauperixation of Stalin's time, society has become more articulated. The interests of the various groups of employees differ and often are in conflict. The integration of groups vith divergent interests intő a single organization makes debate and reconciliation of the differences impossible. (It is typical that, among salaried employees, enterprise chief executives have been the first ones to get an interest-representing organization of their ovn that is separate from the trade unión. Are they perhaps the only ones vith interests sucb that the branch unión is unable to represent them suitably?)- Today the branch and régiónál administrative agencies are able to give direct orders to only 20 percent of the economy's players. If the branch ministry or megye council is unable to order tbe enterprises around, then ve vonder vhat the trade-union organ at the appropriate levele vili be able to agree on vith them?

We need confederate trade union6.

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