We care together

Health system at the limit

The Viennese healthcare system cares for over two million people and is already constantly at the breaking point: Patients wait a long time for appointments and employees work under enormous pressure. But instead of relief measures, the City of Vienna is making further cuts – it can't go on like this!

1,800 jobs on the verge of extinction

In the Viennese Order hospitals, which provide 20% of public health care, savings are being made: more than a hundred beds are to be cut and 75 million euros saved. In response, employers are threatening to cut staff – 1,800 jobs, i.e. one in four jobs, are at stake. At the Anton Proksch Institute, too, the reduction of up to 20% of jobs is on the table. The planned cuts would massively increase the pressure on employees and jeopardize the quality of the health system on which we all depend.

Make a statement

With this petition, we – colleagues, patients and people in solidarity – oppose the planned cuts. After all, we all have a right to good care, and this requires relief for the people who maintain it. That means: more instead of fewer staff, fair wages and working conditions, and more time for themselves and for the patients. 

We stand behind the employees and demand an agreement with them by the end of the year that preserves jobs on the one hand and improves working conditions on the other.