Austria: Thousands protest against plans for 12-hour workday

Tens of thousands of people in Vienna packed the streets on Saturday to voice their opposition to loosening labor laws to allow for a 12-hour workday and subsequent 60-hour workweek.

Police in Vienna said some 80,000 people took part, while the trade unions that organized the protest said some 100,000 people attended.

"We will resist with all means at our disposal," Wolfgang Katzian, president of the Austrian Trade Union Federation (ÖGB), told the crowd.

Katzian called on the Austrian government to let voters decide on the 12-hour workday issue in a referendum.

Currently, Austria has an eight-hour workday and a 40-hour workweek; however, there's a provision in place allowing companies to have their employees work up to 10 hours a day and up to 50 hours a week.

The right-wing government, comprised of Kurz's conservative People's Party (ÖVP) and the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ), argued that the changes to the labor laws are needed in order to give businesses more flexibility.

Kurz's government had to roll back certain provisions in their draft law after a heated debate broke out with the opposition over the permitted reasons employees could provide to refuse to work more than 10 hours per day.

The government eventually backed down and said employees will be allowed to refuse to work overtime without giving a reason.

dw.com/en/austria-thousands-protest-against-plans-for-12-hour-workday/a-44475182


Fascists and Corporations…every time.

Porky's gotta pork

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So this is the face of the hip new 'populism'?
Truly, bending your country over so it can get railed by porky that much harder is the new counter-culture.

Every time.

How many hours do they want? 13?

Nothing says PUNK RAWK like spending every waking hour working for the man.

It's only your life they want, your waking hours.
7 hours of sleep is yours, and you can ride home on public transit and watch some vids on your phone

when will pol realize that the parties they cheer for are basically neo-libs with an added layer of edginess?

WORK MORE, EARN LESS, GAY WHITE PRIDE

That's an oxymoronic name

Capitalists were fine with 18 hour workdays before the 'darn commies' ruined their fun

Freedom™ is when there's less regulations on how much of your soul you can sell to the devil. Being able to sell yourself into slavery is max Freedom™.

They are actually going after the fucking 8-hour workday. Really.

Commies still invented the 7 day workweek.

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They aren't the only ones.

Who else?

10 fucking hours is already the law!

Japan: In an effort to limit incidences of Karoshi, a Japanese term for “death by overwork,” parliament passed a new law limiting overtime work to less than 100 hours a month per worker. Before the law, there was no limit to the number of hours companies could ask their employees to work, as long as labor unions didn’t make a fuss. In South Korea, a law that lowered the country’s maximum workweek to 52 hours, down from 68, also took effect this week. Those who make their employees work more than 52 hours weekly now face up to two years in prison or a fine of up to $24,484.

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And watch as life expectancy drops rapidly in the west while they raise the bar on years you need to get a pension.

But it's the gommies' fault! :DDDDD

I didn't say it was bad. Lazy fuckers were just wasting 1 day per week.

Hopefully this organised the unions behind the KPO.

I hate the ">currentyear" meme, but I suppose there has to be an exception to every rule.
>20 fucking 18

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There's nothing >currentyear about this, tho. There's no reason the "progress" capitalism "made" can't be undone, and the system itself (by its very nature) tends towards this direction when left to its own devices. When these steps were taken, the capitalists made them as concessions to a more and more life threatening working class.

Which only underscores the failure of "social democracy" and other half measures. When your boot is on the neck of the bourgeoisie, don't take it off until they stop breathing.

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Makes Sense

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So much for the populist right

This got to be a fake news story. I refuse to believe this

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This still leaves 59 hours not working or sleeping.

What a waste. There should be none.

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wow, working that few hours is like stabbing the economy in the back user, c'mon you can pull a 20 hour shift with a few 24s and 48s a week can't you?

Oh come now, has capitalism not invented a drug that will keep people awake indefinitely by now?

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I need that pic of an ex marine working multiple jobs and braising freedums :DD

lol, i work 70 hour weeks as a "wall guy" (dont know the english name, but i turn raw walls at construction sites into house walls) for 9$ and that is not a misstype that is a 9 (nine) dollars a day
cant even use the toilet while im on work
no healthcare, not even registered anywhere as a worker, no pension either

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jesus christ fam what country do you live in

serbia, building the "belgrade waterfront" or "belgrade on water"

there's a horde of us construction men of all sorts (electricians, heavy lifters, cementers, pipe and plumbing people, hidroisolators, welders, everyone really) and we are building these new expensive looking (on the posters at least) office buildings
pretty sure you can find it online

tho i gotta say, drink and radio really improve the atmosphere
there is something about emotional mood that helps a lot with the workload, i know its not exactly a measurable or scientific thing but when you are boozed up and when the radio is blasting music we can all sing to, the days go by easily
and working 10 hours every day with no stop keeps your mind occupied, you dont think about anything and before you know it you are 60 and in pension, that's at least what people tell me, im 22 and doing nothing with my life just like everyone else i know

but are you serbian or an illegal immigrant without a contract?
fuck man…that's awful, why don't you guys unite and strike?

i have to add, i have worked 12 hours a day as well, as a cook in a retirement home. it was from 8 to 8, but we only worked two days, then we had two day offs. Still those 12h were really tough making breakfast, lunch and dinner for 350 people.
Your experience seems so much worst, damn…

im a serb from belgrade, we arent striking because only 1/5th of the youth even has a job, you can leave when ever you want no one cares, they can replace all of us at any second, there arent any other jobs out there, everyone i know works 10 to 12 hours every single day for subsistence pay, its just how life is and no one knows any other way

fugg :DD b-but now you have pizza hut and mcdolans, just like us, r-right?

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Unionise: with Titoist aesthetics.

Tbf unemployment was high in Titoistan.

not really, that's a bit of a luxury food over here believe it or not, i could eat it but it would set me back a lot
we usually eat bread (bread loaf is 0.2$), vodka (homemade) and chilly peppers (i grow these on the roof of my house, i live with parents)
so really its bread + chilly peppers and vodka shots through out the day

purchasing restourant or fast food, imagine it costing 1000$ for you, because over here we work all day for 9$ and ordering that food is like 50$ and i have staying alive expenses too


who would give a shit if we unionize? new workers pass through this place every single day, none of us are even registered as workers, people off of street would gladly fill the places

and most important of all, how the fuck am i supposed to stay alive after they kick us all out? i also have a sick grandma

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You know how to speak english and work hard, why don't you emigrate to EU?

..because they would simply return me back where I came from? who called me to eu? who wants me there? where is my visa or permit or whatever the paper thingie is to be there? serbia isnt in the eu or shengen zone and i dont have a legitimate asylum claim to be there either
serbs who go to eu either have a strong degree and a job and all the papers waiting for them or a criminal intent

blockade your workplace, sabotage work sites of the same company, that's what we do here in south america, it's not like you guys have the same problem as us here where the employer just pays hitmen to kill you all, and nobody cares

das rite

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But the result is a country with more character because baboons won't be working. Or something…

According to Wikipedia Serbia has one of the highest amounts of guns in the World. Next to USA and Yemen.

Bring back the Red Star

THE LIBERALS ARE WAKING UP NOT

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To bad Socialist party of Serbia is SucDem and also brainwashed with psychotic Nationalist shit

FPÖ much like the dutch VVD and PVV descend from the "Nationalliberalismus" tradition present in central Europe that developed from the 1848 liberal revolutions and through the Kulturkampf period. They opposed the catholic corporatist/distribustist "Christian Social" parties, with their protestant belief in free enterprise and all the other things 19th century liberalism usually stands for - one of those things being again freedom to do whatever you want. That's where this use of the word freedom comes from.

Even as the christian social parties dissolved into Ordoliberalismus after the war, the wording stayed popular since by then the enemy had shifted to those damn dirty commies that want to take away our freedoms.
Once the cold war ended these parties went into a bit of a slump (except for the PVV but that's another story) until the 2010's when they found another perfect enemy in the EU which is again, to them, an oppresive organism that wants to take away their freedom and national sovereignity. So now the Freedom parties have been able to perfectly ride the populist souverainism wave.

Partizan is superior :^)