Unionized workers laid off at Cengiz and Kolin factory, Satera

Eight workers from the United Metal-İş union were fired at the Satera electrical and electronics factory in Arnavutköy, Istanbul.

About 100 workers work at the factory, which was established two years ago with the partnership of Cengiz Holding and Kolin İnşaat, companies close to the government, and still produces electricity meters.

In the statement made by the United Metal-İş Union on the subject, “After the authorization determination reached our union and the employer, the first action of the workplace management was to dismiss 8 union member workers hastily Our fired friends have been in front of the factory together with our union leaders since this morning.

In the statement, “after almost all the workers joined our union, our union, which provided the majority required by law, requested authorization from the Ministry of Labor and Social Security. The Ministry has completed the examination of the application that we have submitted and has registered that our union is authorized in the workplace.

In the statement in which the company managers called the workers to meet one by one and forced them to resign from the union, it was said: “Our members, who were under the pressure of dismissal and mobbing, act with the conscience from your union. rights and resist”.

Stating that its call to meet with company management for two days went unanswered, the union listed its demands: “The dismissed workers must be reinstated, the pressure on union-affiliated workers must cease, negotiations must begin with the labor union”.