V rubrice Informace z bratrských stran
Tekel připravuje pracující na generální stávku
13. socialistů bylo osvobozeno
The TEKEL workers, after important resistances against the privatisation of TEKEL, recently started a resistance in Ankara departing from different cities in face of the imposition of slavery which is called 4-C. The resistance that continued despite the intensive attacks of the police has become a principal political agenda in a short time.
According to the article 4-C of the Law No. 657 About Civil Servants (this article deals with the "temporary staff that will be employed in different public institutions and enterprises because of privatisation"), most of the TEKEL workers will have the status of "temporarily contracted staff". The workers will not receive severance and notice pay, they will not be able to be affiliated to trade unions and they will be employed only temporarily for 4 to 10 months.
The second negotiation between the government and the leaders of the Turk-Is that are still trying to compromise with the government took place on February 1 and ended without a reconciliation. After learning the result of the meeting, the workers are preparing for the general strike gathering around the building of the Turk-Is and shouting slogans such as "General resistance, general strike", "The fight hasn't ended, but yet started", "Employee personal rights or death", "Turn of the switch, solve the conflict". Furthermore, the workers will start a hunger strike in the afternoon on February 2.
01.02.10/13 SOCIALISTS HAVE BEEN SET FREE
13 socialists who were arrested and imprisoned on September 8, 2009 for having participated at the funeral of the communist intellectual Kutsiye Bozoklar have been set free. 13 socialists were taken to the court on January 29. They entered the building shouting the slogan "Kutsiye Bozoklar is immortal" and in their defence speeches, they emphasised the revolutionary intellectual personality of Kutsiye Bozoklar. They condemned the arbitrary way of the trial expressing that 1500 people had participated at the funeral of comrade Kutsiye who lost her life on June 16, 2009. The court decided the release of the 13 socialists and the continuation of the trials.
