Walkouts paralyzed two production plants
BUDAPEST (Reuters) — Audi workers in Hungary reached a deal on a wage increase on Wednesday, ending a strike that has paralyzed the carmaker’s plant in Gyor, western Hungary, since last Thursday, the AHFSZ trade union said on its Facebook page.
Audi spokeswoman Judit Mithay-Marko confirmed that a deal had been reached.
The strike of thousands of workers led to a halt in production at the German carmaker’s local unit which contributes an estimated 1.4 per cent to Hungary’s gross domestic product.
The strike in Gyor also led to a shutdown at the home plant of Audi, member of the Volkswagen group, in Ingolstadt, Germany, due to a lack of vital components from Hungary just as engines.
Production will be gradually restored from Wednesday evening, Mithay-Marko told Reuters. She declined to immediately estimate the damage caused by strike to the company.
The deal includes an 18 per cent, or minimum 75,000 forint (US$271) per month, wage increase in 2019, the union said.
The Hungarian Audi unit’s $8.3 billion net revenue in 2017 was about 12 per cent of Audi’s global intake, company data shows.
