Transport strike starts in South Hungary

A transport strike began at the southern Hungarian Kapos Volán regional bus company at 3:30 this morning, the time the first bus belonging to company was scheduled to depart.

The strike will be six hours long and will affect 720 buses of which 512 are cancelled altogether, while the remaining will suffer delays. Only 15 contracted and two special services, as well as the sub-contracted Kaposvár-Budapest, Kaposvár-Barcs, Kaposvár-Szombathely and Kaposvár-Győr services will run on schedule.

Kapos Volán has 700 employees of whom 85 percent are trade union members and 88 percent support the strike. The employer indicated yesterday that the trade union is violating strike regulations by not providing minimal services. According to the local chairman of the public transport trade union István Dobi, there were negotiations concerning minimal services, but the employer did not request a certain percentage of services to be maintained.

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