Union alliance Mszosz has asked Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai in a public letter for help in the wage negotiations at the National Interest Reconciliation Council to set wage increases and the minimum wage for 2010.
There is no chance of an agreement without Bajnai’s help, Mszosz chairman Péter Pataky told the press on Thursday.
The present difficult situation emerged not as a result of the crisis, but the shift in personal income tax brackets that “messed up net wages,” Pataky said. Proposed tax changes will increase the net wages of one-sixth of workers by 6-8%, but will reduce those of 1.4 million employees by 2-4%.
Mszosz is asking the government to give up its “Pharisee politics” and not step back from its involvement in wage negotiations.