The Trade Union Situation and Industrial Relations in Hungary [antikvár]

REPORT OF AN ILO MISSION THE TRADE UNION SITUATION AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN HUNGARY "In March 1984 the Governing Body of the International Labour Office decided to publish the first two of a series of reports on the trade unión situation and industrial relations in Europe. "These studies had been undertaken by the Office in accordance with resolutions adopted unanimously in 1974 and 1979 by the Second and Third European Régiónál Conferences. The Conference had called for studies analysing these subjects in the most exhaustive manner possible in the light of the international standards adopted by the ILO in that field, as well as of the experience acquired and data collected by the competent ILO supervisory bodies. "The Governments of Hungary and Norway were the first to agree to have such studies carried out with regard to their own countries. The present publication contains the report on Hungary, the report on Norway being published separately. Each was written by a team of ILO officials who visited the countries concerned and were able to analyse both the legislation and the factual situation then prevailing. " it is the ILO's duty to collect and analyse all the information available on matters lying within its competence. In the present case the ILO has done so in relation to subjects which are among its central concerns and which have a close bearing on the defence and promotion of humán rights. "These studies are alsó at the connecting point between the standard-setting and practical activities of the Office on the subject of industrial relations, and especially the trade unión situation, which is a subject of major concern in an organisation consisting, as does the ILO, not only of.government delegates but alsó of representatives of employers and workers. Looking beyond the •reflections and discussions to which these studies gave rise in the Governing Body, I hope that they will help to improve relations between management, unionised workers and the authorities, and thus to strengthen the protection of labour in all countries, whatever their political, economic and social system may be." From the preface by Francis Blanchard Director-General of the International Labour Office