US EditionTürkmen: Our primary May Day demand is an end to dismissals
- Mehmet Türkmen, chair of the Independent Textile Workers Union, called for an end to mass worker dismissals ahead of May Day 2025 in Turkey.
- This wave of layoffs accelerated after the March 19 crisis and rising interest rates, despite prior hopes for easing monetary policy.
- Nearly 8,000 workers, especially in textile factories benefiting from large state incentives, have been laid off in regions like Antep, Malatya, and Urfa.
- Türkmen stated, “We will not pay the price for this crisis” and noted that textile sector employment fell from 1.3 million to below 1.2 million workers in two years.
- The ongoing dismissals and lack of worker organization risk worsening social opposition and job losses as May Day approaches in 2025.
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May Day returns to march for the reduction of working hours: “It has to be a social cry”
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Unions take to the streets on May Day to demand the approval of the reduction of the day and the reform of the dismissal
One more year UGT and CCOO go out on the street this Thursday May 1 on the occasion of the International Workers' Day, an appointment in which they will take advantage of this occasion to demand the government reform of the dismissal and to press the reduction of the day with the objective that the 37.5 hours will arrive this year.With these demands and the look also put on the international board, the unions will march in more than 50 Spanish c…
Türkmen: Our primary May Day demand is an end to dismissals
In recent months, nearly 8,000 workers have been dismissed in Antep (Dîlok), Urfa (Riha), and Malatya (Meletî). Mehmet Türkmen, Chair of the Independent Textile, Weaving, Knitting and Clothing Workers’ Union (BIRTEKSEN), said that the wave of dismissals has continued to grow. He emphasized that one of their most urgent and primary demands for this May Day is to put an end to this mass firing of workers. Mehmet Türkmen, who was arrested after the…
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