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https://www.facebook.com/events/499952706825444/499953523492029/ Tens of thousands of workers in Turkey's auto and auto parts industries are on strike for higher-wages and against their forced membership in a pro-management, pro-regime union, Türk Metal. The strike started on May 15th and has since spread from the sector's hub in Bursa to other cities in Kocaeli and now the capital, Ankara. Production has been shut down by workers in domestic and foreign-owned plants which include Renault, Ford, as well as Mako, TOFAŞ, Türk Traktör among others. MESS, the metal manufacturers' association, has already reported losses of $1.5 billion, which explains their insistence that workers abandon the strike without even a guarantee of talks much less any concrete gains. The employers' fury heightens fears of a government attack on strikers, a fear reinforced by recent "requests" by the police that workers report to the local prosecutors' offices. The company/state union Türk Metal, formed under the junta which came to power in the 1980 CIA-led coup, has used thugs to prevent the rank and file from speaking out. Show your support for militant Turkish workers! An injury to one is an injury to all! POSTS _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
