Hungarian postal service sacks workers for "illegal strike"

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Magyar Posta yesterday sacked 29 postal workers with immediate effect for organising an unlawful strike and admonished all the 120 staff members who took part in the strike.

Some 150 postal workers went on strike on December 22, ignoring management warnings that the industrial action was without legal foundation.

Magyar Posta then took its case to the Budapest Employment Court, which declared the December 28 strike illegal. The dismissed workers will appeal.

Liga and the Workers Councils unions have demanded that the dismissed workers be re-employed and have offered them assistance.