Officers’ rebellion fire: They ran to SGK as soon as they received their salaries

Unionists from the United Confederation of Public Enterprises, who took to the streets to protest wage increases across the country, carried out a payroll burning action in Izmir.

The representative of the Izmir Confederation, Adem Yıldırım, said: “Today we received our salaries and we saw that the public worker has become impoverished. Public workers have been crushed by inflation and condemned to hunger and misery.

Yildirim said: “It is not the increase in percentages that will delight millions of public workers, retirees and their families, but the elimination of the losses that we have experienced in each period and the increase of the lowest salary of civil servants. to at least 32 thousand TL”.

‘DO NOT IGNORE OUR LEGAL AND LEGITIMATE DEMANDS!’

Yıldırım pointed out that it is not possible to solve the problems of public workers with percentage and additional increases.

“Living conditions in our country have become difficult, and expensive conditions have burned out kitchens,” Yıldırım said, adding: “Natural gas, electricity, water, gasoline, diesel, food, and transportation are increasing at exorbitant rates. The Turkish lira melts against the dollar and the euro, and the purchasing power of citizens decreases day by day.

OFFICER SALARIES HAVE ALREADY LASTED

“Not two months have passed since President Tayyip Erdoğan promised ‘the lowest salary for civil servants would be 22,000 lira’ before the elections, but since he announced that the lowest salary for civil servants would rise to 22,000 lire, it’s been a long time.” since he melted,” Yıldırım continued as follows:

“As is known, we affirm once again that the increase of 8 thousand 77 TL, which was made after the inflation difference of 11.77 percent in the first 6 months of 2023 and the increase of 6 percent of the collective agreement of 2021, did not meet the expectations of the workers.

The AKP government has resorted to policies that place the burden of the economic crisis on the shoulders of workers, deepen income inequality and increase hunger and poverty.

Salaried workers are crushed by heavy taxes and inflation, and so-called wage increases are gone. From here we want to call on the government: Do not ignore our just and legitimate demands!

‘CAN NOT ACCEPT’

Yıldırım also criticized the fact that retired civil servants were not given a salary increase, in the following words:

“The AKP government should not listen to the voice of capital, but to the voice of the workers who are condemned to live below the poverty and hunger line, and stop drawing the picture of an imaginary life by playing with numbers as usual. . does.

Rates and percentages that do not reflect retirement, increase injustice and do not fully comply with the promises made are unacceptable.

‘TAX LIMITS SHOULD BE REASONABLE NUMBERS’

Yıldırım, who also reacted to the large increases in tax rates, made the following demands in her speech on behalf of the officials in action: “The ceiling on taxes paid by all workers should be reduced to reasonable numbers and the taxes on maintenance expenses must be withdrawn. The cost of the economic crisis must be avoided on the shoulders of public workers and employees”.

THE GOVERNMENT’S PRECISIONS A BAD COPY OF THE IMF

“The government’s bitter recipes are a bad copy of IMF policies and must be removed,” Yıldırım continued as follows:

“Of the lowest civil servant salary of 22 thousand TL, 11 thousand 128 TL are not included in the calculation of the pension. It is the cunning of the government that this figure will be determined as a fixed figure from now on and that this figure will not be a basis for any further increase.

The inflation difference must be paid in the month in which it occurs. In the tax bracket, which works almost like a steal mechanism, the rates cut after wage increases should be reshuffled.

The ignorance of retired public workers due to the massive increase in the dismissal law constitutes a violation of the principle of equality in the Constitution. (PHOENIX)