EMF call for solidarity and sympathy from the Turkish colleagues from DISK
Dear Colleagues,
Please find a call for solidarity and sympathy from the Turkish colleagues from DISK.
They would like to draw the public’s attention to the catastrophic events that have occurred in the Turkish shipyards over the past months and years.
Events of this kind should trigger massive campaigns for better health and safety conditions in the shipbuilding industry.
I strongly support their action and kindly invite you to send solidarity messages to the colleagues from DISK on 27th February 2008, the day they will organise a 24-hour strike in the Tuzla shipyards.
In solidarity,
Peter Scherrer
EMF General Secretary
The EMF expresses support to shipyard workers in Tuzla, Turkey
The European Metalworkers Federation wrote today to Commissioners Vladimir Spidla and Olli Rehn -responsible respectively for Social Affairs and Enlargement - to draw their attention to the worrying, hazardous health and safety conditions and trade union rights violations in the Tuzla Shipyards in Turkey.
Workers in Tuzla were informed of the death of two of their colleagues on 21st February 2008. The two employees were said to have suffered smoke poisoning and subsequently died from heart failure, one at the workplace, the other one in hospital later the same day. These deaths bring the number of workers who have died at this Turkish shipyard in the last eight months to 18.
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