February 11, 2006 The action against the boss’ organization, TİSK’s “Women’s Employment Summit” continued today. In Istanbul and Adana, the Association of Labor Women and Tekstil Sen, Union of Textile Workers gave press releases against the event organized by the Employers Association, TİSK. In yesterday’s action, the women from the Peoples’ Cultural Center had opened […]
February 11, 2006
The action against the boss’ organization, TİSK’s “Women’s Employment Summit” continued today. In Istanbul and Adana, the Association of Labor Women and Tekstil Sen, Union of Textile Workers gave press releases against the event organized by the Employers Association, TİSK. In yesterday’s action, the women from the Peoples’ Cultural Center had opened a banner and had said, “you have nothing to say on behalf of women” to the organizers.
The women belonging to the Association of Labor Women and Tekstil-Sen union gathered in front of the Conrad Hotel in Beşiktaş-Istanbul where the summit was taking place. Some of their banners read, “Long live Women’s Solidarity”, “End the IMF style Poverty” and “Equal Pay for Equal Work.” Gülay Boran who read the press release for the women emphasized that the bosses considered women as cheap labor. She said, “We can see their wild greed for profits in the event where 5 women workers were burned to their death in a factory in Bursa or, with the introduction of the government’s General Health Insurance plan that will leave thousands of women workers unemployed.” She added, “on the March 8th, the Working Women’s Day, we are following the seamstresses of New York.” Boran said they did not recognize the bosses organization TİSK’s summit. She said the solution lay in the united struggle of women.
Protest in Adana
The Association of Labor Women and Tekstil-Sen union protested the summit with a joint press release in Adana today. Women in Adana chanted, “Equal Pay for Equal Work” and “End to Murdering Workers” at the İnönü Park in this southern city, the fourth largest in Turkey.
In her speech, Çiğdem Miçooğulları, the representative of the Tekstil-Sen Union said the summit was a search to exploit women’s labor further.
Miçooğulları also criticized other women’s associations and union bureaucrats who attended the summit. She said labor organizations should spend more effort to expose the real face behind the project to have more women join the labor force.
She added, “We will keep the murders of workers under the guise of work accidents on the agenda. We are trying to raise the wages for women that will allow them to live like human beings.”
Women further chanted, “We have not forgotten 5 women who died in Bursa”, “TİSK is capitalism, and capitalism kills”, “Equal pay for equal work”, “End to murdering the workers”
Yesterday’s action against the Bosses Women Summit
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