The SPÖ-women calling for „Cohesion for Europe“

Heinisch-Hosek and sprinklers to warn of shift to the right in Europe: „Who is limiting women’s rights, democracy is in danger“

Vienna (OTS/SK) – In the European elections, the future of Europe and to our women’s rights, because „the one who is limiting women’s rights, democracy is in danger,“ said the SPÖ Federal Chairman Gabriele Heinisch-Hosek today, Friday, at a press conference with the SPÖ-EU top candidate Evelyn Regner, on the occasion of women’s day. The EU-principle of „Equal pay for equal work in the same place“ must be in all member States, so the sprinkler, the Austria due to the „huge wage gap“ are particularly demanded. Regner calls, therefore, for the next European Commission „to put in place concrete measures against unequal wages, to provide for transparency of Pay and involuntary part-time work to combat it.“ In addition, rainy for a quota in leadership positions: „women are days in the boss, that’s where your place is.“ The social democratic basic values around freedom, self-determination and independence of women to be represented in the election campaign, prominent, announced rainy and Heinisch-Hosek, a „cohesion“Tour and street actions of the SPÖ women through the whole of Austria. ****

„There were days, where there is more cause for joy. Today it is a day like in a long time“, said Heinisch-Hosek, who referred to it as a „sad fact“ that „the current Minister is the untätigste“ that you’ve ever experienced. Bogner-Strauß give promises that are not kept and „truncates for the first Time ever, the women’s budget“, said Heinisch-Hosek. „This Federal government is the best way, the rights of women should be limited“, as the SPÖ Federal Chairman, the debates around abortion looks like in Poland as an evident threat to the right to self-determination of women. „This danger is also in Austria is closer than many believe,“ said Heinisch-Hosek on attempts by the Conservatives to ban late abortions: „this guaranteed right to self-determination must never be shaken.“

The 8. March has become the Europe-wide day of action for women’s rights, also stressed Evelyn Regner, recalled the woman’s strikes in Belgium: „women’s politics and Europe fit together perfectly,“ because „democracy and the rule of law is strong, then the woman’s right good.“ Will scratched the democracy, „the women feel very special. This is exactly what happens currently in many countries in Europe,“ said Regner, who sees the rights of women in Hungary and Poland, to threaten. „In Hungary, Orban has introduced a kind of Gebärprämie – a policy that pushes women back to the stove.“ Austria to pull here, Regner, who stressed that the ÖVP and the FPÖ in the European Parliament, to vote regularly against measures to protect the maternity or equality. „For us, it is in contrast to self-determination, so that women can lead their lives independently and on an equal footing. We are committed to in the European Parliament.“

Criticism of the black-blue government also practiced Heinisch-Hosek, who highlighted the areas of labour market and protection against Violence:
„Many companies offer only part-time jobs. To work long part-time, but it means less Pension.“ Rather than to promote women and to create good Jobs, and livable, „renewed by the government, the working hours for women, but no adequate Childcare facilities in rural areas.“ The wage transparency act, nothing more, and now with the AMS, the 50 percent funding target has been deleted, in the case of Heinisch-Hosek is a second Time that the „alarm bells ringing“. In addition, it was reduced to the protection against Violence and 100 day-care places for women in crisis situations deleted. „This policy threatens women’s rights and democracy“, said Heinisch-Hosek.

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