United Kamu-Is: Employee paid for ‘election gesture’ out of pocket

The Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) announced yesterday the consumer inflation data for the month of May.

Thus, in May 2023, consumer prices were 0.04 percent compared to the previous month, 15.26 percent compared to December of the previous year, 39.59 percent compared to the same month of the previous year and 63 .72 percent based on twelve-month averages. occurred.

The ‘zero price method’ for natural gas was effective in lowering inflation.

Mehmet Yeşildağ, President of the United Public-Business Confederation, assessed TUIK’s inflation data in his written statement today.

Mehmet Yeşildağ, Chairman of the United Confederation of Public Enterprises, said: “According to these figures, the workers and workers who will receive a raise paid for the movement of natural gas, which is actually the ‘election gesture’ of the People’s Alliance. We are following the promise made before the elections that the lowest salary for civil servants will be 22,000 lira,” he said.

Regarding the appointment of Mehmet Şimşek to the Ministry of Treasury and Finance, Yeşildağ said: “Minister of Treasury and Finance Mehmet Şimşek, who served for many years in the AKP government, is one of those responsible for the current landscape. The interests and expectations of the workers are diametrically opposed to Şimşek’s policies.

‘ŞİMŞEK IS ONE OF THOSE RESPONSIBLE’

Noting that difficult times await workers and officials, Yeşildağ stated that Mehmet Şimşek is one of those responsible for the current economic landscape.

Yeşildağ made the following statements in his statement:

“The country has suffered greatly from the misguided economic policies of the AKP government for a long time. The government, on the one hand, with its compensatory policies implemented before the elections and on the other hand with its post-election promises, won the support of the voters and gained the authority to govern the country for another 5 years. However, what will be the situation of economic distress and the ’empty pot’ in common expression?

Mehmet Şimşek, Minister of Finance and Finance, who served for many years in the AKP government, is one of those responsible for today’s image. The interests and expectations of the workers are diametrically opposed to Şimşek’s policies.

Difficult times await workers, officials and retirees. The AKP government is preparing once again to pay the price of the crisis to the workers and civil servants.

‘WORKER PAID FOR POCKET ELECTION WORK’

According to data released by TURKSTAT, which operates like an institute that plays with numbers rather than reflecting actual market prices, inflation rose by just 0.04 percent a month in May but slowed to 39.59 percent a year. .

The government, which presented the free use of natural gas for one month during the election period as good news, included natural gas in the inflation calculation and thus showed even lower inflation.

In other words, according to these figures, the workers and day laborers who are going to receive an increase paid for natural gas move, which is actually the “electoral gesture” of the Popular Alliance.

‘IT’S MAKING OUR MIND’

There are daily price changes in the markets. The vast majority of citizens buy fruits and vegetables in the market with cereals. The consumption of red and white meat has now become a luxury for most homes. For the first time in the country’s history, the weight of white cheese exceeded one gram of gold.

To say that monthly inflation has increased by 0.04 percent while the average rent across the country has approached 7,000 lira is simply a mockery. The true inflation of the town is revealed by the figures announced each month by our Confederation, Compound Public-Is.

In May, the hunger limit for a family of 4 reached 12,000 lira, and the poverty line exceeds 31,000 lira. The vast majority of the country’s working population take eggs and milk with them, which are unavoidable kitchen expenses, calculated as in wartime.

Baby food is now sold with special alarms in markets, and in many homes, mothers have to make fake water pudding food for young babies.

The reality is that more than 90 percent of public workers are deeply in debt and with credit card debt. Deciding the inflation difference to be paid to civil servants as a funny figure by showing low inflation despite this image contradicts President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s phrase “We know the problems you are going through and we will solve them”, which he used often at rallies. before the election.

THE PAYMENT PROMISE OF 22 THOUSAND LIRA IS FULFILLED

In his statement, Yeşildağ stated that they followed the promise that the lowest salary for civil servants would be 22,000 lira before the elections.

Yeşildağ criticized Şimşek’s statement that ‘we will facilitate macroeconomics’ in the following words:

This unrealistic inflation rate, which was announced, revealed the meaning of the word ‘relaxing the macroeconomy’, which the new Minister of Economy Mehmet Şimşek, who was taken to the head of the economy and presented as a savior, said at the first day of his ministry.

Let those who see the heavy subsistence problem of the country’s working population as ‘micro’ and those who are preparing to impose austerity on the workers to relieve the bosses know it; The economy of a country where those who produce and those who work cannot breathe, has no opportunity to stagnate.

As the Unitary Public-Business Confederation, which is the defender of the rights of public workers, we warn; We are following the promise that the lowest salary for civil servants will be 22 thousand lira before the elections. Contrary to TURKSTAT, we are chasing both actual inflation and the damage caused by it. We will not allow this heavy image to be camouflaged with lies.” (PHOENIX)