The incident caused the workers at many other branches of Migros, a large-scale grocery outlet chain, to start actions, resistances, and strikes across Turkey. In a show of solidarity with labor, the women’s rights organization Women’s Defense came to the Esenyurt warehouse where the Migros workers were on strike.
Women’s Defense Organization’s Support for Striking Migros Warehouse Workers: “Long Live Feminist solidarity”
Women’s Defense, a militant women’s rights organization, paid a visit in support of the ongoing strike of Migros Warehouse workers in front of the warehouse in Esenyurt Migros Warehouse workers, who resisted the employer’s imposition of a “misery hike”, were attacked by the police. The management had offered a very low and unacceptable increase in wages coined as “misery wage hike” by the workers. Turkey is experiencing unprecedented inflation where independent economists and economic institutions have calculated being above 110%. Any wage increase below this amount automatically leaves the workers losing even what they had only a few months back.
When the bosses called the police, the cops attacked the workers who had barricaded themselves inside the warehouse, forcefully removed and detained most of the Migros warehouse laborers.
The incident caused the workers at many other branches of Migros, a large-scale grocery outlet chain, to start actions, resistances, and strikes across Turkey. In a show of solidarity with labor, the women’s rights organization Women’s Defense came to the Esenyurt warehouse where the Migros workers were on strike.
Women from the Women’s Defense, chanted. “Long live feminist solidarity!” while demonstrating against the grocery chain management. The women expressed that the demands of the Migros workers were also the demands put forth by the women’s organizations.
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