Public transport strike threat looms

The Budapest public transport company (BKV) has reached agreement on a new contract for 2010 with three of six unions, but the rest are preparing to go on strike, Népszava reports.

All of the unions have to sign the contract, otherwise it is not valid.

If no collective agreement is in force from January 1, when the current one expires, then employees will receive even bigger cuts in bonuses and fringe benefits than accepted by those unions ready to sign the agreement.

Regarding the new agreement on funding between the city and the state, urban transport NGO VEKE objects that the BKV is planning to renovate old buses ready for the scrap heap instead of buying new ones, said spokesman Dávid Vitézy.

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