Turkish unions on strike on 16 June against work-related accidents
Turkish unions are on strike today against work-related accidents.
Report from Turkish colleagues about the strike in the Tuzla shipyards
Strike in Tuzla Shipyards
Workers and their supporters got together at 07:00 am. They closed to main street of shipyards and started to walk. At the same time, invitation was made the other workers who were going to work in service cars. Some of them got off and participated in the meeting. However, majority of shipyards workers had been picked up from their homes with services cars by employers at 05:00 am. In addition to this, some of workers had been brought to work with seaway. Thus, although there were about 5000 supporters there were only 200-300 workers in the meeting.
Turkish shipyard death prompts workers’ strike
Paul Tugwell - Tuesday 17 June 2008
WORKERS at Turkish shipyards staged a one-day strike yesterday to protest against working conditions following the death of another colleague last week at Istanbul’s Tuzla shipbuilding district, writes Paul Tugwell in Athens.
