2,500 at a nursing demo for fair working conditions
Bless you
With a torchlight march, the nursing staff draws attention to the working conditions in the health sector on Tuesday evening. According to the organizers and the police, there were more than 2,500 participants in the city of Salzburg. She calls on politics to act.
“#MehrWAIR” – under the motto, nurses and other supporters gather at Kajetanerplatz in the Landes. With a torchlight march they demonstrated for better working and framework conditions in health, care and social professions. Because the CoV pandemic brings the care staff beyond their limits.
All trade unions and also church organizations called for the march across the old town. Start the war on Kajetanerplatz. The demonstrators then crossed the Nonntaler Bridge towards the festival halls. The organizers asked the participants to wear an FFP2 mask, to keep their distance and to do a Covid test beforehand.
Another demo in Zell am See
A demonstration also took place in Innergebirg on Tuesday evening: In Zell am See (Pinzgau), according to the organizer, ÖGB Pinzgau, a total of 200 care workers took to the streets to demonstrate for better working conditions.
“Payment instead of pocket money”
Peter Eder, President of the Salzburg Chamber of Labor, called for better working and training conditions during the torch-lit march: “It is still shameful that training in nursing receives pocket money. On the other hand, we need framework conditions and better pay so that the job is made more attractive, people who have dropped out can be brought back to work, and more young people, but also young professionals, are motivated to enter this profession. “
Torchlight procession for care
Petition with demands
On Wednesday morning, representatives of the Austrian trade union want to present the state politicians with the petition of the same name “MehrWärFair”. In a letter from the war directed, among other things, to the Salzburg governor, the ÖGB regional manager Gabi Proschofksi wrote that “several thousand people” had signed the petition. In total there are around 14,000 support signatures, i.e. the union.
In the petition, cross-faction and cross-union working groups proposed solutions to improve working conditions in the health and social sectors.