Index – Belföld – Budapest can breathe a sigh of relief, they have agreed to restart garbage collection
The CEO of Budapesti Közművek and the president of the HVDSZ 2000 Trade Union, representing the employees, signed the agreement on Thursday evening, which fixes the benefits provided by the employer, and the representatives of the employees undertake to go out at dawn on Friday, October 7, to collect waste. Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony reported in a Facebook post at the same time that the order of garbage collection in Budapest could soon be restored.
Budapesti Közművek and the representation of the employees on the restart of the public waste transport service in the capital was born. This was reported by the Waste Management Division of BKM Budapesti Közművek Nonprofit Zrt and the mayor of Budapest on Thursday evening.
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. Due to the work stoppage, the collection of municipal and selective waste in Budapest and some agglomeration settlements was missed.
Your company has been continuously negotiating with the strikers since Tuesday, while the agreement was reached on Thursday evening, the main elements of which are as follows:
- Employees of waste management and public sanitation services, as well as employees of the areas directly served by them, receive a one-time gross HUF 200,000 per person extraordinary overhead allowance.
- In December 2022, Budapesti Közművek will pay a gross HUF 120,000/person Christmas bonus to all its non-executive employees.
- The parties jointly review and modify the incentive wage elements of the employees of the Waste Management Division and the Public Cleanliness Division, and half of the incentive allowance is included in the basic salary.
- Budapesti Közművek will review and transform the control process of waste collection and transport together with the representatives of the stakeholders until October 31, 2022.
- From October 7, 2022, employees will go out for waste collection in accordance with the previous trash emptying schedule, and the backlog will be taken care of as soon as possible.
Gergely Karácsony also spoke
According to the post of the mayor of Budapest, garbage collection can soon resume in the city, because the delegates of the strikers managed to reach an agreement with the leadership of the capital.
According to the agreement, “Budapest will, to the best of its ability, help its employees working in waste transportation to alleviate the problems of living due to the increase in prices and overhead costs, and they will take up the work and do everything in order to make up for the accumulated backlog as soon as possible.”
Gergely Karácsony wrote in his post that the government Kukaholding was given the number with which it can pay its debt and return the money “from the garbage fee paid by the citizens of Budapest”. furthermore, they are also starting negotiations with the trade unions of the capital’s companies about “how they can help the workers of the Budapest family in the livelihood crisis”.
(Cover photo: Tamás Nagy / Index)