Tesco employees call strike in Hungary for Friday, Saturday

Employees of the Tesco-Global company will go on strike from 4pm till midnight on Friday and from 10am till midnight on Saturday, head of the Independent Union of Retail Employees (KDFSZ) announced shortly before the start of the strike. 

Support for the strike is “enormous”, Csaba Bubenko said, adding that several dozen stores had joined the initiative. The union is open to reaching an agreement with the employer and intends to carry on with negotiations, he added.

Zoltán Karsai of the Union of Retail Employees (KASZ) said that instead of a slowdown, where strikers impede production or services, Tesco employees will lay down work completely for the duration of the strike, possibly causing the shutdown of certain stores.

KDFSZ announced a countrywide strike on Monday, without giving a date. Bubenko said then unions demand a 25 percent wage hike and a 15 percent raise in the number of employees, Karsai said.