Hundreds of workers are working side by side despite the pandemic
- economy-labor
- 18:09 29/3/2020
Despite the threat of coronavirus outbreak, hundreds of workers are working side by side at the North Marmara Motorway construction site.
Despite the threat of coronavirus outbreak, hundreds of workers are working side by side at the North Marmara Motorway construction site.
Citizens who are kept waiting in queues in fron of fruit and vegetable stalls installed by the government, complains about the lack of affordability. Citizens think that a permanent solution must be found. One of the citizens waiting in the queue, Mahmut Açıköz, said: "Does wealthy people wait in queues to buy vegetables?"
İzban workers have started a stoppage this morning for their demand of salary increase was denied. Demiryol-İş Union İzmir Branch President Hüseyin Ervüz said: "We will not accept the wages between 850 TL- 2 thousand 500TL which our members can barely live from hand to mouth."
Republican People's Party (CHP) İstanbul Parliamentarian and Health, Family, Labor and Social Affairs Commission member Ali Şeker said his application on the working accidents in the 3rd airport was responded by Presedential Communications Center as: "52 fatal occupational accidents occured in the İstanbul Airport construction between 2013- 2018."
SES Co-chair Gönül Erden said that they will protest the new "Violence in Health Bill of Law" with the discharged doctors and the doctors who could not pass the security clearance. Erden said: 'We will raise out voices against those imposing death on us'
Solidarity with 3rd Airport Workers Platform said 'Who is the worker you killed and dissappeared at the airport?' for the worker whose body was found in the storm drain of the airport worksite.
In the last few months hundreds of companies went into administration. Murat Özveri, who emphasized that companies are going into bankrupcy, because they are in a debt spiral said the injured party is the labourers again.
While TUİK publishes the unemployement reports of July 2018 as 3 million 531 thousand, DİSK- AR expressed the wide described numbers as 6 million 300 thousand people.
HDP Urfa parliamentarian Ömer Öcalan asked about the reason why Urfa is in the front row of working accidents to the Minister of Family, Labour and Social Security Zehra Zümrüt Selçuk.
According to the statement of the Ministry of Finance and treasure , the budget of centralized management have a 6 billion Liras of depicit in September and a total depicit of 56.7 billion between January to September.
Garo Paylan, HDP's economist parliamentarian, said about AKP government's undisclosed expenses goes by the name "other expenses" and “discretionary funds"; "That money is being distributed to exponents as part of public & private sector projects.”