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The head of the SPÖ harshly criticized the federal government in the labor crisis: “This is not how people are treated, it is disrespectful and a shame.”
The head of the SPÖ, Pamela Rendi-Wagner, met on Monday with the works councils of the companies where there are massive layoffs. Representatives from ATB, Mayr-Melnhof, but also MAN were present. Rendi-Wagner has asked the federal government to do something about the layoffs and site closures.
“It can’t be that there are companies that get state aid and still put employees on the streets and close locations,” he told a press conference in Vienna.
No response from the Chancellery
According to his own statements, the head of the Styrian ATB works council in Spielberg, Michael Leitner, has already tried to contact the federal chancellor. For eight weeks he has been waiting unsuccessfully for a date with Sebastian Kurz. The Foreign Ministry did not even answer him. 360 people should lose their jobs at ATB due to the site closure.
But: The wave of layoffs should be a red political problem: because Leitner, a “red veteran”, as the “Kleine Zeitung” writes, also attacks a friend of the party: the incumbent member of the SPÖ of the National Council, Christoph Matznetter, he is a member of the supervisory board of ATB AG. “It is pathetic that a Social Democrat supports such decisions,” Leitner said. Matznetter believes that his resignation would not have changed anything: “Not even I can turn off reality: there will hardly be a private owner who accepts a loss with each piece produced.”
MAN Steyr works council chairman Erich Schwarz also stated that so far he had not received any support from the federal government. In the VW Group, 2,300 jobs are directly affected and many more in the region.
“This is not how you treat people”
“Apparently the Chancellor takes the distance rules so seriously that he maintains the maximum distance with those affected,” criticized the SPÖ leader. “This is not how people are treated, it is disrespectful and a shame.”
The government would hide behind numbers and statistics. “But behind that are people, children and their future,” Rendi-Wagner said.
