The resistance of Desan workers, who began their industrial action on the 24th of May 2006 to get their unpaid wages, had become a spark in Tuzla shipyard. Fearing from the expansion of the resistance of Desan workers organised in Limter-Is to whole shipyard, the bosses and state forces had many times attacked mercilessly to the workers and unionists in order to break the resistance. But the resistance was grown because of the workers' and unionists' insistence in their fight. The bosses, who were searching for ways to end the resistance, thought that they can finish it by the imprisonment of Cem Dinc, the President of Limter-Is Union, and Kamber Saygili, education expert. There were organised dozens of support actions for the unionists who were imprisoned under the pretext of holding out the police on 10 June. As a result of the campaign that involved many methods of struggle from hunger strikes to press conferences, petition campaigns to protests in front of the governorships, the state was forced to take a back step.

On 20 July, 100 people organised a picket in front of the court during the first trial of unionists and shouted the slogan "Release the imprisoned unionists". By waiting in front of the court and wearing aprons writing "End to the killing at work-Shipyard workers are not slaves", the Desan workers also did not left Dinc and Saygili alone. Under the pressure of all these actions, the court decided to release unionists and but to continue with the case.