>Some 80,000 people took to the streets in Vienna to protest government plans to allow the working day to be extended to 12 hours. Despite calls for a referendum on the issue, the proposal is expected to pass parliament
>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.
>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.
Wait, you mean to tell me in Europe you CAN'T work more than 40 hours a week? What the fuck. You'd get fired here if you worked that little.
Nolan Ramirez
So, he wants Austrian working conditions to be more like the US?
Ryder Thompson
most people don't have anything better to do anyway
it's better for them and society that they spend less time being drunk, browsing chinese imageboards and whatnot
Asher Price
*deafening silence from every armchair politico on Jow Forums*
Tyler Kelly
The political left is concerned with things far removed from life -> people vote right If the left would be more sensible in their policies, they would not have lost so many voteers.
Dylan Lewis
8h/day 30m launch included is standard here
I have 36,5h/week contract
Anthony Lewis
Hahaha, thanks for the NEETbux :^)
Blake Bennett
>80k Some more should take to the streets and enforce some more policies.
Andrew Lee
why on earth would that justify right wingers pushing forth garbage laws and policies? if the left wing is detached, by your own admission the right wing is actively malicious.
Easton Price
So the left is to blame for anything the right does because if they did things differently people wouldn't vote for the right. You realize how retarded that sounds right?
80k is 1% of the population. if it was in america it would be 3.2 million
Bentley Martin
They are to blame for being the same filthy neoliberals that the right is.
Matthew Hernandez
>So the left is to blame for anything the right does That's not what I've said at all. I've said their policies are not what real people are interested in, that's why they've lost voters. Nice try putting words in my mouth, though. Get some reading comprehension and try to stop blindly attacking people you think are in the wrong, e.g. have different believes than your own. Shit like that is a hallmark of idiotic lefties.
Adrian Watson
>real people are interested in Real people are interested in working 50 hours a week? Address this point
Robert Wilson
That's true to a degree, but they do care about worker rights more then the right does. As demonstrated.
Connor Morris
That's the price you pay for refusing immigrants. SOMEONE's got to work, you know.
More like, sombody needs to work to finance all the social spending wasted on non-working immigrants.
Isaiah Myers
>Mental gymnastics
Dylan Evans
I'm not so sure. Economy-wise they use the same rhetoric. They are fully immersed in the neoliberal discourse, what with 'necessary cuts', the primacy of the market and whatnot. They just seem to be more humane about it, at least in appearance. For me they are worse than the right because they absorb all of the desire for change into the neoliberal discourse, legitimizing it and preventing any real alternative. "Social" "democrats" are, funnily enough, that which prevents any change, even as they pay lip service to it.
