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Culture workers demonstrate over pay and jobs

While public sector workers in general have seen a pay freeze lasting five years, culture workers have been hit even harder with no increase since 2002 and a third of jobs in the sector cut since 2008. The KKDSZ culture workers' union organised demonstrations across the country on 20 January supported by many other trade union organisations. The EPSU collective bargaining conference expressed its solidarity with the KKDSZ representative who presented the union's case to participants.
Read more at > EPSU (EN)
And at > KKDSZ (HU)

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