[P2P-F] Fwd: [Networkedlabour] Holidays for the Unemployed n Austria: The protest continues
Michel Bauwens
michel at p2pfoundation.net
Fri Sep 12 18:28:51 CEST 2014
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Martin Mair <mm at mediaweb.at>
Date: Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 1:48 AM
Subject: [Networkedlabour] Holidays for the Unemployed n Austria: The
protest continues
To: networkedlabour at lists.contrast.org
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
international at aktive-arbeitslose.at
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
kontakt at aktive-arbeitslose.at
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-holiday-for-unemployed
- 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-urlaub4433.php
- Ireland: two weeks of holiday, pensioners and invalidity pensioners
can go abroad entirely
http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/social_welfare/irish_social_welfare_system/claiming_a_social_welfare_payment/going_abroad_and_social_welfare_payments.html
- Switzerland: 5 days of paid holidays after 60 days of unemployment
under control
http://www.vol.be.ch/vol/de/index/arbeit/arbeitslosigkeit/vorgehen_arbeitslosigkeit.assetref/dam/documents/VOL/BECO/de/Arbeit/beco-arbeit-rav-an-infobroschuere_DE.pdf
If You have information about other countries, please send it to
kontakt at aktive-arbeitslsoe.at
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-holiday-vouchers-benefits-claimants
- 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-alle.html
- Left party claims the right to holidays (10.8.2014) [German]
http://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article131061222/Linkspartei-fordert-Recht-auf-Urlaubsreisen.html
--
=============================================
Mag. Ing. Martin Mair,
Publizist virtuell & traditionell
Krottenbachstrasse 40/9/6, A-1190 Wien+43 676 3548310,
mm at mediaweb.athttp://www.mediaaustria.athttp://www.flickr.com/photos/martinmairhttp://www.youtube.com/user/theaaatv
=============================================
--
--
=============================================
Mag. Ing. Martin Mair,
Publizist virtuell & traditionell
Krottenbachstrasse 40/9/6, A-1190 Wien+43 676 3548310,
mm at mediaweb.athttp://www.mediaaustria.athttp://www.flickr.com/photos/martinmairhttp://www.youtube.com/user/theaaatv
=============================================
_______________________________________________
NetworkedLabour mailing list
NetworkedLabour at lists.contrast.org
http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour
--
Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at:
http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan
P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net
<http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates:
http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens
#82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://lists.ourproject.org/pipermail/p2p-foundation/attachments/20140912/8e92df68/attachment-0001.htm
More information about the P2P-Foundation
mailing list