January 8th, 2010
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Hungarian postal service sacks workers for “illegal strike”

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Magyar Posta yesterday sacked 29 postal workers with immediate effect for organising an unlawful strike and admonished all the 120 staff members who took part in the strike.

Some 150 postal workers went on strike on December 22, ignoring management warnings that the industrial action was without legal foundation.

Magyar Posta then took its case to the Budapest Employment Court, which declared the December 28 strike illegal. The dismissed workers will appeal.

Liga and the Workers Councils unions have demanded that the dismissed workers be re-employed and have offered them assistance.

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  1. JD says:
    January 8, 2010 at 11:44 am

    A strike over pay, conditions, or that they are just not getting enough time to put the valuable looking packages in their pockets?

  2. Levél says:
    January 8, 2010 at 1:59 pm

    My mail is delivered “ad hoc”. The postman is like a blue moon – “seldom seen”! Except when the bills
    are due and my post box is full of the damn things.

  3. wolfi says:
    January 8, 2010 at 2:54 pm

    Our “letters lady” is advertised every morning around eleven by all the dogs barking – and she always wears a smile and likes to chat with my wife, so we can’t complain …