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Unions inform 100 endangered achievements over 100 years of social policy
Vienna (OTS) – 100 years of social ministry: a reason to celebrate. But under the current federal government, the 8-hour day was abolished, the social security system was destroyed and, with the reform of the minimum income support and emergency badistance, new attacks against the welfare state come from the Ministry of Social Affairs. As a result, many representatives of unions and chambers of work will not attend the "100 Years of the Ministry of Social Affairs" ceremony. Wolfgang Katzian, President of the ÖGB: "We do not want to celebrate the entrance of the Ministry of Social Affairs to the Ministry of Social Affairs." Instead, 100 trade unionists denounce 100 social achievements of the Ministry of Social Affairs threatened for 100 years.
Trade unionists formed the Ministry of Social Affairs
Well-known members of the labor movement have headed the Ministry of Social Affairs for 100 years, including Anton Proksch and the great politicians of the 1980s and 1990s, Alfred Dallinger, Josef Hesoun and Lore Hostasch. The first of these ministers' predecessors was the trade unionist Ferdinand Hanusch, who had taken up his position as secretary of state for social protection at a time when he was facing enormous social problems, such as his inability to work and high unemployment.
Social insurance, law on the company committee, right to leave, …
Hanusch, for example, we need the creation of social insurance and unemployment, the limitation of the weekly hours of work of women and youth, the right to leave of workers, the law on the working chamber and the law on the works council. Even in recent years, many important initiatives have been taken by the Ministry of Social Affairs, including the General Social Insurance Act (ASVG) of 1955 or the eight-hour day. Some members of the government have already attacked head-on. Who knows what achievements are still in danger …
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Action ÖGB Ministry of Social Affairs centenary – (K) a reason to celebrate
Monday November 5th from 9.30am
In front of the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna
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