Miners’ Strike Ends in Hungary as Regime Yields
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BUDAPEST, Hungary — More than 300 employees of a coal mine in southern Hungary returned to work Thursday after a 20-hour strike that posed the first worker challenge to the strict economic policies of Communist Party leader Karoly Grosz.
The strikers won a promise that the government will try to iron out a quirk in a new income tax law that allows workers on sick leave to earn more than those working regularly.
In addition, the government instructed companies to pay bonuses to miners who complained that they had lost 30% to 50% of their bonuses under the new tax laws.
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