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Textile workers, working in the textile sector that is an important sector in Turkey, and of whom the great majority is employed without insurance and the right of membership in a union and debarred from occupational safety and health, gathered on October 26 to hold a conference at Istanbul. The conference organised by the union Tekstil-Sen , became a platform which discussed the problems of the workers and looked for solutions to economical, democratic and social problems. {divide}
In her opening speech Tekstil-Sen General Secretary Beycan Taskiran talked about the fact that workers are employed without any insurance and working under unhealthy conditions and that the aim of the conference is to organise the textile workers.
Tekstil-Sen General president Ayse Yumli Yeter held a speech at the conference in which she said that the trade union organisation has gone back and that this conference had been organised under the conditions that the workers must expect even more difficulties. She also stressed the current financial crisis and explained that it is the workers and labourers who are wanted to pay for the bill of this crisis. Yeter continued focusing on the current political developments in Turkey declaring that together with the conference, the goal is to present the organised power of the textile workers against any attack policy of capitalism and the textile bosses.
The President of the Party of Workers' Brotherhood Prof. Dr. Zeki Kilicarslan said in his speech that there id no work safety especially in small businesses and that this is the reason for work-related accidents and occupational diseases frequently happening, and why workers dealing with jeans stoning must face silicosis.
Textile workers coming from different places discussed the working conditions being flexible and having no rules and promised to enlarge the organised and union movement led by Tekstil-Sen against the flexible and illegal working conditions.
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