Secretary of Organization of TÜRK-İŞ and
the President of General Mine Workers Union Çetin ALTUN;
“Mine workers are on watch”
The presidential council of General Mine
Workers Union visited the workers at the Üzülmez and Asma-Dilaver regions and
informed them of the recent developments.
President Çetin ALTUN addressed the workers
stating that the policies implemented by the Turkish Hard Coal Enterprise were
full of mistakes;
“Our workers and our people are facing hard
times due to the policies that are being implemented. 13 million unemployed are
waiting for jobs. The value of our natural resources are undermined. The
governments do not take in to consideration the demands of 72 million people,
instead they prefer to follow the IMF program. Thousand of workplaces are
closed down and millions are left jobless.
The
Minister of Energy made a statement related with coal production in Zonguldak.
He promised that Zonguldak would meet the coal and iron-steel consumption of
Turkey and that 2 thousand new recruitments would be employed in the Enterprise
while 8 thousand in the private sector. None of these commitments were
materialized.”