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Vienna: Some 80,000 people have taken to the streets of the Austrian capital Vienna to protest against government plans to extend the working day to a maximum of 12 hours.
"We will resist with all means at our disposal," Wolfgang Katzian, president of the Austrian trade union federation, said at the demonstration on Saturday.
Protesters took to the streets of Vienna to express opposition to the Austrian government's proposed labour laws that would legalise a working day of up to 12 hours.
Photo: MorgenpostHe demanded that the Austrian government take the introduction of the 12-hour day and accompanying 60-hour week to the people in a referendum.
The new right-wing government plans to ease labour laws to allow employees to work up to 12 hours a day and 60 hours a week, a move that is fiercely opposed by the unions.