‘We are looking for workers with an ad for the mosque, we can’t find them’
Ankara Chamber of Industry (ASO) Chairman Seyit Ardıç said that many university students are unemployed in the country due to the opening of a university in every city, but there is a shortage of qualified personnel to work in the industry.
Ardıç stated that only about 4 thousand qualified people were searched to start working in ASO 2nd Organized Industrial Zone, but they could not be found. We were desperate, we made an announcement from the mosque and announced that we were looking for a master glassmaker to start working immediately. However, not a single teacher came. Let 50 glass masters come, I will hire them in my own company for a good salary today, ”he said.
MANY UNIVERSITIES MANY UNEMPLOYMENTS
Ardıç said that there are 4 million university graduates in Germany, which has the same population as Turkey, and 8 million in Turkey, and that young people who have graduated from university are unemployed.
Ardıç said: “There cannot be 83 law schools in one country. There are law schools in cities that will never exist. If so many universities are opened, so many will become unemployed. Almost a third of the country is unemployed,” he said.
A MINISTRY OF MIGRATION SHOULD BE ESTABLISHED
Ardıç said that as young people head to universities, there are no intermediate personnel to work in industry, agriculture and tourism, and immigrants fill the gap.
Pointing out that Syrians work in industry, Afghans in agriculture, and Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in tourism in Turkey, Ardıç said: “We have reached such a state that if migrants who work suddenly leave, we will have problems. An immigration ministry should be urgently established in Türkiye. There are 8-10 million immigrants, almost 10 percent of the country’s population became immigrants. We don’t have a ministry yet. If the immigration ministry is established, the immigrants will be registered and the order will come.
HIGH SALARIES IN THE PUBLIC
Ardıç said that industrialists were uncomfortable with the policy of high salaries in the public sector, that good teachers trained in the private sector went to the public with 50 percent more salaries, and that technology companies were the most affected by this situation. .
Ardıç claimed that white-collar employees also demanded a 34 percent increase in the minimum wage and that companies are working on the increase.
OUR VISA PROBLEM
President Ardıç said that the main problem of the industrialist is the visa, not the credit.
Stating that almost 50 percent of his EU visa applications were rejected, Ardıç said: “All industrialists should be given green passports for those who export for USD 1 million or more. The industrialist does not seek asylum in the country to which he goes. I have not seen an industrialist who went abroad and did not return”.
Ardıç said that they were looking for women to work in the industry because they could not find male workers, and that they had trained women for 6 months and employed them as lathe, milling and welding masters with a salary of 25 thousand lira.
Stating that they reached the women to work through the bosses, Ardıç stated that during the 6-month training period, training support was provided at half the minimum wage.
ISTANBUL EARTHQUAKE WARNING
ASO Vice President Mete Çağlayan said that a possible earthquake in Istanbul would be a great risk for Turkey and that the production facilities in Istanbul should be migrated to Anatolia.
Stating that giving incentives to the Marmara region would be treasonous, Çağlayan said that due to the earthquake risk, 20-25 companies in Istanbul were meeting to find a place to come to Ankara.