An agreement has been reached between the Budapest Public Works (BKM) and the employees' representation on the resumption of the public waste transport service in the capital
- is revealed in the BKM press release. The CEO of Budapesti Közművek, as well as the president of the HVDSZ 2000 Trade Union, representing the employees, signed the agreement on Thursday evening, which records the benefits assumed by the employer, and the representatives of the employees agreed to march out on Friday, October 7, to collect waste at dawn.
The agreement includes, among other things, that the workers in the waste management and public sanitation public services, as well as the workers in the areas directly serving them, will receive a one-time gross overhead subsidy of two hundred thousand forints. Budapesti Közművek will pay a Christmas bonus of HUF 120,000 gross to all non-executive employees in December 2022.
The statement adds that the parties to the negotiations have mutually agreed to do everything possible to restart waste transport as soon as possible. At the same time, they jointly ask for the patience of the population and institutions of the capital until the consequences of the three-day service outage are fully eliminated. Certain scheduled tasks - such as the waste collection in Terezváros due this weekend - will be carried out at a later date, but continuous service is expected to be restored within a few days.
As is known, a work stoppage began on the morning of Tuesday, October 4 in the FKF Waste Management Division, which operates independently within the framework of Budapest Public Utilities. As we wrote about earlier, the garbage haulers complained, among other things, that the capital's left-wing leadership was spreading lies about their salaries. In addition, they hired inspectors to spy on the workers, and the inspectors earn much more than they do. According to Blikk, the left-wing management of the capital company previously threatened the strikers with dismissal. Our newspaper has written several articles about the permanent problems and difficult situation of the garbage haulers, among other things we reported that there was a case where protective drink was not distributed to the workers during the heatwave, and there were many industrial accidents.
As reported by Magyar Nemzet, Gergely Karácsony already turned to the emergency services this week to have the garbage removed from Budapest. And the Világgazdaság article highlighted that, in their opinion, the Karácsony family's claim that the capital cannot pay higher wages to garbage collectors is not true because the state waste management holding company withholds a part of the garbage fees paid by the citizens of Budapest. The reality, on the other hand, is that
this year, the state-owned company transferred HUF 1.4 billion more to the capital than was received from the garbage fee, and on top of that, it paid another HUF 1 billion in connection with garbage collection. The article adds that Karácsony and the capital utility company led by Imre Mártha have not initiated any official procedure until now due to the state debt, which they claim has existed for years.
- The owner municipality will coordinate with the employees of the company responsible for municipal waste management, and on Friday morning waste transport will start again in Pécs - announced the mayor of the county seat of Baranya. Attila Péterffy (Jövője of Pécs), who recalled in his statement sent to MTI: on Thursday morning, waste collection did not start in the city after the municipality-owned waste management company Biokom NKft. 77 of its employees refused to work without prior notification. He said: in the afternoon he met with the employees of the company's transport plant, and together with the managing director Barna Meixner, they took over the written demands of the workers, and at the same time agreed with them that they would negotiate in the next fifteen working days, in addition to the continuous maintenance of garbage collection. In a previous statement, Attila Péterffy called the workers' movement illegal, considering that the work stoppage had not been announced, and he also considered the strikers' wage demands to be out of line with reality.
Opening image: The garbage trucks have started again from the FKF Ecseri út site (Photo: Magyar Nemzet/Zoltán Havran)
