Don’t give a job abroad, give a house in your hometown

Disaster The business world of the region is concerned that the great wave of migration after the earthquake will be permanent if the problem of education and housing is not resolved. In this context, the textile and clothing industry called for employment campaigns in other provinces to “provide assistance on the spot.” Although it is estimated that approximately 4 million people migrated from the region affected by the Kahramanmaraş earthquakes, it is pointed out that the calls made by companies and production centers in other cities in search of qualified employment can generate a serious employment problem in the region. in the future. The region’s business community emphasized that the issue in question must be resolved urgently.

LOSS OF SKILLED LABOR

Hikmet Gümüşer, Vice President of the Kahramanmaraş Chamber of Commerce and Industry, stressed that there is a serious immigration problem in Kahramanmaraş, which is one of the main centers of the textile industry. Hikmet Gümüşer, in his statements during the week, drew attention to the fact that the most important loss was experienced in skilled labor.

Gümüşer said: “You can find a flat worker, but you cannot find qualified personnel” and said: “Buses from Denizli, Bursa, Kayseri and Istanbul, which are the rivals of Kahramanmaraş in important sectors, arrived to help people affected by the earthquake, and they took away our qualified personnel. They employed qualified personnel in their own cities.” Gümüşer pointed out that a systematic study should be carried out for the return of qualified workers in the region.

RECOVERY TAKES TWO YEARS

Turkey Ramazan Kaya, president of the Garment Manufacturers Association, said: “We do not support migration to the West. We must not PR the call to the west. Goodwill support must be done financially or in terms of accommodation,” he said. Kaya, in Kahramanmaraş, is the minimum to return to the past.
He stressed that it will take a year or two. Stating that most of the facilities in the city work with digital machines and that the employees are qualified, Kaya said, “Without those people, those machines will not work. We need to keep those people alive by solving the housing problem with psychological support,” she said.

FACTORIES CANNOT MOVE, STAY ATTRACTIVE

region of Pointing out that if the migration is permanent, it will create problems for the textile and apparel sector in the long run, Şeref Fayat, president of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey Ready-to-Wear and Apparel Assembly, stated that the housing problem must be solved in a short time and then the problem of education. Noting that investments in the field of textiles are in a structure that cannot be moved, Fayat said, “If we leave our industrialists naked as human beings and provide labor support in any way, it is impossible for investments there to see here. It is questioned that it is inactive and deactivated. Şeref Fayat, who said: “Therefore, we as the business world must convince people to establish order and stay there as soon as possible,” and said: “The problem of accommodation and education must resolve”.