Strike by train engineers leads to a dead end track

On Monday, Hungarian teachers and train engineers protested against the planned health care reform, which includes partial privatisation of health insurance. Péter N. Nagy comments: "It wasn't the country that was hobbled by yesterday's strike, but the strike itself: Originally intended to be indefinite, it lasted exactly one day. It may well be that this reform could cause us some problems, but surely it is no reason for a healthy, functioning economy to send its people into the street – after a year in which salaries have decreased in a particularly unpleasant manner. Isn't that the real problem? Just because the opposition is devising a referendum doesn't mean that all train employees should have to spring into action. Could it be that a serious error was committed in setting the political agenda?"

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