Ambulance workers demonstrate over pay
Over 60 ambulances joined a demonstration in Vienna on 21 May as workers protested over deteriorating pay and conditions in the non-profit sector. Workers from the Austrian Red Cross, Johanniter (St.Johns) ambulance service and Workers' Samaritan Federation are calling for a single collective agreement for the sector or extension of the agreement that currently covers Red Cross workers. Some workers are not covered by a collective agreement and there is evidence of long working hours - as many as 60 a week - without overtime pay. The demonstrators also raised the issue of the need for proper