> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jan 1 12:09:55 1998 > Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 19:57:57 +0000 > Sender: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: LabourNet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Appeal from Turkish TIBSET workers > Comments: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > TO THE ATTENTION OF ALL WORKERS AND TRADE-UNIONISTS! > > TIBSET is the biggest medical supply producer of Turkey which > produces > plastic injectors, syringes, steriles and the like. It has an > important market share in > Europe with its quality assurance certificates, ISO 9002 and CE > 46002. TIBSET has started its activity 20 years ago and the workers > work 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. > > TIBSET also acts as a third-party supplier to European firms such as > SB > Euromedis, Deuchmed and Metrik. > > We, the experienced and qualified workers of TIBSET, have organized > in > Petrol-Is union against the pressure of the employer, against the > cost of living and for better social rights on 16th of August. > Against our unionizing, the employer violated the law and prevented > the union's getting authority in the factory by showing 44 fake > workers in the workplace. > > The employer also sacked us expert workers and put ordinary ones > -scabs- in place of us. This is an act which endangers human health. > > After this, the technical director, technical employees and quality > assurance chiefs also resignedby saying that with inexperienced > workers, the factory could not produce qualified and healthy > products. > > Association of Pharmacists, Association of Doctors, Association of > Dentists and Human Rights Association of Turkey have also launched > press releases and supported the just and legitimate struggle of the > TIBSET workers. > > But somehow, Ministry of Health and Ministry of Labour have done > nothing > about the subject. Petrol- Is union has launched a lawsuit against > these ministries. > > TIBSET workers are resisting for more than 120 days against the 1980 > military constitution, the nature itself, the cost of living, the > attacks of the employer and the > gendarme. We have been arrested 10 times. We want a clean society, > democratic labour laws, justice and to live like a human being. > > But we know that just to "want" is not enough. We can make our > demands come true only by unity, solidarity and struggle. > > Boycott TIBSET products. Put pressure on the employer. The man and > woman of Anatolia has taken military coups, bourgeois political > parties and "yellow" trade unionists as his/her fate for decades. A > handful of people are drawing our fate, we > have few social rights, we live on the minimum wage they decide upon, > without education, without health, without social security and > without a union. > > Our tomorrows are in darkness. Our children have no future. We > workers are divided, thick-headed and unorganized. But capital is > organized to the core and it attacks systematically. > > This disgraceful life is not a fate. We workers need struggle and > solidarity now, without dividing into two as "secular" or > "fundamentalist" or another artificial split. > > The unity of workers is our power and our future. Our duty is to > crush the obstacles in front of organizing in trade unions and fight > for democratic labour laws and against deunionization, the > restrictment of basic rights and freedoms. It is time to for joint > action and joint resistance. > > Let us unite and fight against the attacks of capital and win. > > TIBSET resistance is the honour of our people and our class. Let us > claim it and support it with all our power. > > Workers are rightful, workers will win! > > Long live our struggle for jobs-bread-freedom! > > TIBSET WORKERS > > > Contact: Petrol-Is Union Istanbul Branch > Tel: 00 90 212 589 13 12 > Fax: 00 90 212 589 13 15 >
