Mojca Pišek

Journalist, essayist, literary critic, from Slovenia

Aidan Harper, New Economics Foundation: The four-day week should be one of the central aims of the union movement in the 21st Century.

How many individuals and organisations are advocating the topic of working time reduction in your country and do you form partnerships? Within the UK, the movement around working time reduction is small but rapidly growing. The UK Green Party has put a four-day week in… Read More »Aidan Harper, New Economics Foundation: The four-day week should be one of the central aims of the union movement in the 21st Century.

Daniel Bernmar, Vänsterpartiet: Reducing work hours is a feminist reform

How many individuals and organisations are advocating the topic of working time reduction in your country and do you form partnerships? There are no other political organizations working for work time reduction apart from ours. At least not as progressive as us in the left… Read More »Daniel Bernmar, Vänsterpartiet: Reducing work hours is a feminist reform

Ana Oller, CCOO: First, we want to restore what has been wrested by the crisis

How many individuals and organisations are advocating the topic of working time reduction in your country and do you form partnerships? CCOO (Comisiones Obreras/Worker’s Commissions) always had the 35-hour week for the goal. By 2012, the public sector had a 35-hour workweek. The government extended… Read More »Ana Oller, CCOO: First, we want to restore what has been wrested by the crisis

Valerija Korošec, researcher: Shorter working time as complementary social policy to UBI

How many individuals and organisations are advocating the topic of working time reduction in your country and do you form partnerships? I am employed at the Government Office for Macroeconomic Analysis and Development as a social policy analyst. I have made a shorter analysis of… Read More »Valerija Korošec, researcher: Shorter working time as complementary social policy to UBI

Gerd Inger Polden, Rødt: Let`s celebrate 100th anniversary of 8 hours working day by working 6 hours

How many individuals and organisations are advocating the topic of working time reduction in your country and do you form partnerships? I am a member of the political party Rödt and the Action Committee for Six hours day in Norway. A lot of organizations in… Read More »Gerd Inger Polden, Rødt: Let`s celebrate 100th anniversary of 8 hours working day by working 6 hours

Sam Groen, FNV: Older workers should be able to reduce work to make place for younger workers

How many individuals and organisations are advocating the topic of working time reduction in your country and do you form partnerships? The idea is introduced by the FNV, the largest trade union in the Netherlands, with 900.000 members. It is advocated by other trade unions,… Read More »Sam Groen, FNV: Older workers should be able to reduce work to make place for younger workers

Mátyás Benyik, Attac Hungary: This will help solve a lot of connected problems

Who is “on board”: how many individuals and/or organisations are advocating the topic in your country and do you form partnerships? The idea of the reduced working hours is very much connected to combat unemployment. The talk now is about what governments can do to… Read More »Mátyás Benyik, Attac Hungary: This will help solve a lot of connected problems

Steffen Lehndorff, researcher: Work length should be an individual choice

How many individuals and organisations are advocating the topic of working time reduction in your country and do you form partnerships? There is no politically relevant movement or initiative for general working-time reductions in Germany. Of course there are individuals and work groups (like the… Read More »Steffen Lehndorff, researcher: Work length should be an individual choice

Margareta Steinrücke, ATTAC Germany (AG ArbeitFairTeilen) : A 30 hours week with full compensation of wage and stuff

How many individuals and organisations are advocating the topic of working time reduction in your country and do you form partnerships? In Germany specially attac is advocating the reduction of working time in form of the so called “short full time” around 30 hours per… Read More »Margareta Steinrücke, ATTAC Germany (AG ArbeitFairTeilen) : A 30 hours week with full compensation of wage and stuff

Verveine Angeli, Union syndicale Solidaires: Action is urgent

Who is “on board”: how many individuals and/or organisations are advocating the topic in your country and do you form partnerships? In our country, 3 trade unions (CGT, FSU and Solidaires), several organisations or associations as Attac, Economistes attérrés, Copernic or Collectif Roosevelt or association… Read More »Verveine Angeli, Union syndicale Solidaires: Action is urgent