Abstract
The former Committee for the Reconciliation of Interests (CRI), regarded as the most significant “tripartite” institution of the postsocialist states of the Central-Eastern European region, was established in the summer of 1990 and operated until the summer of 1999.
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On an experimental systematic evaluation of the primarily macroeconomical and political challenges affecting employees and their interest representative associations (i.e., the trade unions) in the 1990s, compare Hethy (1999, 43).
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Right after the fall of the state-socialist political and economic system, in the period of the beginning of the so-called mass privatization (1992–1993), a Hungarian research team (whose members were Lajos Hethy, Maria Lado, and Csaba Mako), organized and financed by the Japanese Institute of Labor, carried out a sociological survey involving more than 300 companies on a statistically representative sample concerning the transforming patterns of the labor relations in Hungary. One year later, case studies were prepared, making use of what is referred to as the survey technique, in companies belonging to three industrial sectors (energy, steel, and electronic) regarding the transforming patterns of the relations between employees, employers, management, and trade unions. The shortened version of the research report was published in Hungarian by the Japanese Institute of Labor (Hethy, Lado, and Mako).
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On the role of company/works councils, which provide the Hungarian labor relations with dual characteristics, in 1998–1999 we carried out a survey-type research on the statistically representative sample of the engineering companies among the council presidents. The research was initiated by Takeharu Inagaki on behalf of the Corporation International Research Institute of Labor, which commissioned the Institute of Sociology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences to carry it out. The original English report was published under the title: Works Council as an Institution of Employees’ Participation, (Perceptions of Works Council Presidents) (Mako et al. 1999).
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This act was passed by Parliament on June 1, 1999.
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For example, Lewinson (1972) suggested the introduction of a corporate-level multinational collective negotiation system.
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In reality, this was not the first Euro strike, because it was the workers of the Dunlop-Pirelli company—and not that of Renault-Vilvoorde in Belgium—that, in 1972, were the first in Europe to call a strike in the Italian and the British factories at the same time. The aims of the employees were very similar: to prevent the layoffs following the unification of the company. The difference, however, is that the Dunlop-Pirelli strike was initiated by the workers—the national trade union alliance did not participate in it—unlike in the strike at Renault-Vilvoorde.
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Mako, C. (2016). The Dual Character of Hungarian Labor Relations: The Institution of Employee Participation from a European Perspective. In: Katsikides, S., Hanappi, H. (eds) Society and Economics in Europe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21431-3_11
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