WORLD : Hungarians Seek to Copy Solidarity
Hungarian workers, attacking the government for squandering their labor, today announced plans to set up the country’s first free blue-collar union, modeled on Solidarity in Poland.
“We think workers’ interests are best defended by workers themselves,” former machine tool worker Bottyan Kiss told a news conference called to announce the plan to launch the Workers’ Solidarity on Saturday. About half a dozen independent trade unions have been founded in Hungary since May but all were related to white-collar professions.
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