Limter-İş chair Kanber Saygılı underlined that May Day celebrations could not be banned and restricted in an environment where epidemic measures did not include workers and added: "We will be in Taksim on 1 May."
Few days left for the 1 May, Workers' and Labor Day, which this year face further restriction due to the coronavirus epidemic. The preparations of the 1 May Platform, which is determined to be on the streets despite the restrictions placed on the celebrations, are continuing. Kanber Saygılı, chairman of Limter-Is affiliated to DISK and one of the platform components, spoke to ANF.
"The pandemic has been turned into a collective murder"
Saygılı said that the political power and bosses who turned the epidemic into a mass murder. He emphasized that dying while working, getting sick, getting wages at the border of hunger, collecting the leftovers in public markets, unemployment, poverty and suicide have increased. Saygılı said: "The workers continue to pay the price of the economic crisis and the epidemic by being slaughtered and fired. While the government offers all kinds of rights to the bosses, workers cannot even use their constitutional and trade union rights.”
Saygılı said that the name of the new attack weapon of the government and the bosses is Code-29, through which workers who seek their rights are unlawfully dismissed.
Pointing out that Code-29 was a lifeline to bosses in the epidemic, Saygılı noted that workers who wanted to use their right to unionize and objected to bad working conditions were dismissed with this article. "This Code-29 weapon stands as a threat that hangs like the sword of Democles at the head of the workers," the trade unionist said.
Saygılı said: “May 1st is a milestone in the history of the working class. There will be no future here if we don’t show our stance against such a tyrannical power. As Limter-Is, we will protect our history and celebrate May 1 in Taksim. The 1 May Platform will be on the streets on May Day."
