Retirees entered the holiday impoverished
Due to the incessant walks, the low-income people could not experience the joy of the festival. Cengiz Yavuz, president of DİSK Retirement-Sen, said that millions of retirees entered the holidays impoverished. Stating that retirees’ wages below the starvation limit, even below the minimum wage, cannot withstand inflation, Yavuz said: “Retirees’ pockets are empty, their refrigerators are empty, their medicine boxes are empty. empty. There are bills piling up in retirees’ mailboxes,” he said.
Stating that the 2,000 lira holiday bonus is not enough to pay accumulated bills, fill the fridge, make grandchildren happy and spend holidays with a party flavor, Yavuz pointed out that retirees cannot give pocket money to their grandchildren
BILLS ARE NOT ENOUGH
Retired President of Sen Yavuz stated that all segments of the population in Turkey are struggling with great and deep poverty, and retirees have to spend their days struggling to survive due to rising cost of living.
Explaining that retirees who find it difficult to meet their basic needs have completely withdrawn from social and cultural life, Yavuz noted that millions of retirees have come to this holiday even more impoverished than before. Yavuz said that the retirees are trying to pay the accumulated bills with a bonus of 2,000 liras and close their debts with the merchants, so that they do not have the money left in their pockets to give vacation pay to their grandchildren.
Cengiz Yavuz
We are in the fields on May 1st.
Retired DİSK President Cengiz Yavuz stated that they will be in the squares on May 1, saying: “Those who are trying to get out of the crisis by deducting the pensioner’s holiday bonus, refrigerator and market bag should know; We are on the courts on May 1 and at the polls on May 14”, pointing to the election.
Yavuz said: “We will shout from the squares our demand for a life worthy of human dignity. We will shout that we will not leave the account to the apocalypse for more than 14 million retirees and poor with rights. On May 14 we are going to announce that they will not be able to make the people pay for the crisis,” he said.