---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Martin Mair <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 1:48 AM Subject: [Networkedlabour] Holidays for the Unemployed n Austria: The protest continues To: [email protected] Maybe a little bit off topic, but i dont share many international mailinglists at the moment ... Please support and share! We are also looking for contacts to groups of unemployed in other countries to set up an international network. We are building up an international newsletter/press release list. Who is interested to get it, please send an email to [email protected] We are also looking for interantional newsletter / internet plattforms to spread our infos (we are just at labourstart) Unemployed of the world unite! Martin Mair Chairman "Active Unemployed Austria" Holidays for the Unemployed: The protest continues „Aktive Arbeitslose Österreich“ (Austrian Active Unemployed) are starting an international online petition Download picture in high resolution <http://www.aktive-arbeitslose.at/bilder/news/Urlaub_fuer_Arbeitslose.jpg> (Vienna 2014-08-27) A Flash Mob on the 8th of August in the city at „Wiener Graben“ was a great success. About 20 unemployed people were sunbathing at the Graben, in front of the Erste Bank and socialised with guest from all over the world. This was a protest, that in Austria unemployed cant leave their without loosing benefits and social insurance. 50 picture postcards to the social services minister, where international guest demanded the right to holidays for the unemployed. More of those picture post cards can be either ordered at „Active Unemployed Austria“ or can be downloaded as a copy. The organisation „Active Unemployed Austria“ has started now an online petition. Their first one both in German and English for attracting international supporters. So it should be drawn international attention, that compared with those of other countries the Austrian unemployed insurance is a rigid one. Even in Germany for unemployed people, which are recipients of the Social benefit called Hartz IV, it is possible to go on holiday abroad up to 3 weeks, but as agreed upon to the Job Centre. With this online petition "Active Unemployed Austria" wants to foster the international intercommunication of unemployed people abroad. Fort the next year the 8th of August should be proclaimed as an international action day for the right of recreational holiday and family holiday. Because the unemployment is not caused by the unemployed itself but by the globalized capitalism. Therefore this problem must be combatted worldwide. Further Queries: Mag. Ing. Martin Mair Chairman of „Aktive Arbeitslose Österreich“ http://www.aktive-arbeitslose.at [email protected] Tel.: +43 676 3548310 Links: - Online-Petition to the social services minister Rudolf Hundstorfer: Urlaub für Arbeitslose / Holidays for Unemployed! https://www.change.org/p/recht-auf-urlaub-f%C3%BCr-arbeitslose-richt-to-holi... - Shortlink: http://bit.ly/holydaysforunemployed - Postcard as PDF for Download http://www.aktive-arbeitslose.at/download/urlaubsaktion_postkarten.pdf Infoflyer about this action (German/English): http://www.aktive-arbeitslose.at/download/Urlaubsaktion_Info.pdf - Photos of the Flash-Mob: https://secure.flickr.com/photos/martinmair/sets/72157646463573062/ Background: What is this action about? Unemployment and the search for a new work, further often useless coercive measures of the work agency and the daily fight against against bureaucracy are very exhausting. For the partner or the whole family this situation is very demanding. Both financially and psychically. Unlike many other industrialised countries, in Austria unemployed people lose unemployment benefit and health insurance if they go abroad. Even family members living abroad cannot be visited. First of all the families and the children of the unemployed are suffering of this situation. Even though the unemployed paid their unemployment insurance over many years. They even are not responsible, that there are not enough jobs. But the government is restricting the human rights to family life and free movement. Aggravating this situation there is a lack of money, why, for example a German left wing party called “Die Linke” demand a holiday pay for the poor. Leave arrangements in other countries (first research findings) - Germany: 21 day holiday for the recipients of Hartz-IV http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/hartz-iv-ihr-anspruch-auf-... - Ireland: two weeks of holiday, pensioners and invalidity pensioners can go abroad entirely http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/social_welfare/irish_social_welfare_sys... - Switzerland: 5 days of paid holidays after 60 days of unemployment under control http://www.vol.be.ch/vol/de/index/arbeit/arbeitslosigkeit/vorgehen_arbeitslo... If You have information about other countries, please send it to [email protected] Related Actions to the topic „Holidays for Unemployed“: - Does everyone have a right to a summer holiday? (13.8.2014) http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/13/katja-kipping-die-linke... - Summertime – holiday season for everybody a plea for a right to holidays (9.8.2014) [German] http://www.katja-kipping.de/de/article/818.sommerzeit-urlaubszeit-f%C3%BCr-a... - Left party claims the right to holidays (10.8.2014) [German] http://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article131061222/Linkspartei-fordert-... -- ============================================= Mag. Ing. Martin Mair, Publizist virtuell & traditionell Krottenbachstrasse 40/9/6, A-1190 Wien+43 676 3548310, [email protected]http://www.mediaaustria.athttp://www.flickr.com/photos/martinmairhttp://www.... ============================================= -- -- ============================================= Mag. Ing. 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