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‘Hungary workers can end exploitation with strikes’

Tuesday, 18 December 2018 7:58 AM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 18 December 2018 10:50 AM ]

Participants in a rally by members and sympathizers of several trade unions, political parties, and civil organizations light flares in front of the parliament building in protest against changes to the labor code proposed by the prime minister's party, in downtown Budapest, Hungary, on December 16, 2018. (Photo by AFP)

A political commentator says workers in Hungary can end the “exploitation” of laborers in the country by holding large-scale strikes.

In an interview with Press TV on Tuesday, James Fetzer, an emeritus professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth, expressed hope that workers in Hungary would continue an “organized effort” to force their government to discard new regulations on working hours and the delay of payments.

“Large-scale strikes can be very effective and bringing about political change especially in relation with a situation like this, where you have an abusive leadership that seeks to exploit the working men and women of Hungary,” Fetzer argued.

Thousands of people recently rallied in Budapest to protest new rules on working conditions by the government of Prime Minister Victor Orban.