Turkish labor, Japanese labor, oppressed poor worker

Turkey The Chairman of the Chambers and Commodity Exchanges (TOBB) Union, Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu, reportedly threatened workers who were members of the union at the Nisshin Seifun Turkey Pasta and Food Factory, which was established jointly with the Japanese companies Nisshin and Marubeni, and threatened to fire them.

The president of the Şeker-İş union, which was organized in the factory, İsa Gök stated that the workers were taken to the persuasion rooms and subjected to pressure and threats to withdraw their union membership, saying: “Our workers are almost forced in harakiri when threatened with dismissal”. Stating that the company committed a constitutional offense and the penalty for the offense is 3 years in prison, İsa Gök said that if the pressure and threats do not stop, they will initiate actions in front of the Japanese embassy.

Production began in 2015 at the Nisshin Seifun factory, which was jointly established by Japan’s Nisshin-Marubeni of Noah’s Ankara Pasta, of which TOBB Chairman Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu is among its partners.

threat of dismissal

Şeker-İş President İsa Gök held a demonstration with a group of workers in front of the Turkish-Japanese association and made statements. Stating that they completed the organization by making 55 of the 103 factory workers members of Şeker-İş and received official authorization from the Ministry of Labour, Mayor Gök said that the employer was trying to create an obstacle in front of the organization. union by exploiting loopholes in the law and filing an objection case for ‘extraneous reasons’. President Gök made the following statements:

“The employer has made a clear distinction between unionized and non-unionized workers by attracting workers to the persuasion rooms since the day it learned about unionization through the letter from the Ministry. Sometimes they tried to nominally reward them with a new title, promotion and large sums of money should they quit the union, and sometimes they intimidated workers with pressure and threats by taking them to interrogation rooms one by one. Workers at the Nisshin Pasta factory are discriminated against because they are unionized and are forced to do harakiri under threat of dismissal.”

3 years in prison

Şeker-İş President İsa Gök said that Article 51 of the Constitution guarantees that workers cannot be forced to abandon their union membership, and that those who prevent union activities through force and threat will be sentenced to prison from 1 to 3 years with the unions and Collective Labor Contracts Law.

Analogy between samurai and janissaries

President Gök said that if the pressure and threats against the workers continue, they will protest in front of the Japanese Embassy, ​​and then take the illegality at the Nisshin pasta factory to the international dimension and announce it to the whole world. Gök said: “We are calling the Nısshin officials from here; Just as the samurai and janissaries chose ‘Don’t Die Before You Die’ and practiced it, today we as Nisshin Pasta employees will never stop fighting for our bread to the end.”