Topics changed
The issues at the time: the right to vote for women, equality for all people (regardless of whether they are workers or manufacturers), eight-hour days from Monday to Saturday, the abolition of child labor or the right to medical care. “In the early years of the young republic, many of these demands were met, thanks in particular to the then Minister of Social Affairs and trade unionist Ferdinand Hanusch, whose performance can be described as unearthly given the following 100 years ”, Erwin Niederwieser is convinced. Even if the topics have changed: The fight for justice continues to this day! Today the AK is concerned with sufficient state instead of just private, with equal rights for women and men, with training regardless of social origin, with affordable housing.