UİD-DER’s Solidarity Message: Turkish Airlines (THY) Workers are not Alone!

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THY management and the government put pressure on workers for them not to join the strike. Atatürk Airport is under police siege. THY management keep sending text messages to workers in order to demoralise and frustrate them. And unions and democratic mass organisations are taking side with the workers and Hava-İş. UID-DER published a statement in solidarity with THY workers and Hava-İş. Below is the solidarity message of UID-DER.

UİD-DER Women’s Committee: We Share Our Bangladeshi Class Bothers/Sisters’ Grief

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Our dear Bangladeshi class brothers/sisters

As Women’s Committee of the Association of International Workers’ Solidarity (UİD-DER), we are deeply saddened by the loss of our class brothers and sisters as a result of the collapse of Rana Plaza building on April 24. We share your great outrage against capitalist system of exploitation, and extend our feelings of solidarity.

UID-DER’s Condolence and Solidarity Message to Bangladeshi Workers

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Our dear class brothers/sisters,

More than a thousand workers lost their lives as a result of the collapse of Rana Plaza on 24 April and hundreds of them were injured. We share your deep grief as your class brothers/sisters and extend our feelings of solidarity. It is the capitalist system of profit to blame for this disaster in Dhaka, which can be called a massacre.

Doro-Chiba: “We Fiercely Denounce A Nuclear Treaty Agreement”

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Dear all friends of UID-DER, Japanese far right Abe administration, on the one hand, is eager to abolish the current Japanese Constitution together with its “peace clause” to change Japan into a nuclear-armed war state. On the other, Abe is intent to export packaged deal of nuclear power plant systems, railway systems and water supply and sewerage systems as one of desperate measures to get out of the current global economic crisis.

May Day in Turkey

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May Day was celebrated in many cities and towns of Turkey. Despite the intimidation of the government in the run up to May Day, workers in Ankara, Izmir, Bursa, Mersin, Zonguldak, Gebze, Diyarbakır, Tekirdağ, Antep, Manisa, Muğla, Rize, Kars, Karabük, Hakkari, Bingöl, Bitlis and many others, there were hundreds of thousands of workers in total taking part in the demonstrations. In all demonstrations workers, together with their families, protested against the attacks of capital and the government, and put forward their demands.

What is UİD-DER and What Does It Stand For?

Our Association of International Workers Solidarity, UİD-DER, has been founded in June 2006 by Workers Self-Education Groups (WSEG) which have been active in different industries such as metal, textile, petrochemistry. Revolutionary vanguard workers who make up WSEG had been conducting work in union rank-and-file, factories, strike places for many years. UİD-DER is the fruit of this continuous work carried on in a working class discipline. And we keep carrying on our work to strengthen this base on an international level as well.

Our May Day Message to IWSN

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(30.04.2013) We celebrate your May Day which is a day of unity, struggle and solidarity for the working class. The working class ...

May Day Message from IWSN to UID-DER

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(30.04.2013) Once again we are celebrating May Day aware of a year of struggles that has included both victories and defeats. Every ...

Our May Day Message to Citroen Aulnay Strikers

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(24.04.2013) We salute you with our warmest feelings of solidarity. We wish you victory in your determined strike you have been ...

Mersin Port Workers Fought and Won

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(15.04.2013) 1600 workers in Mersin Port, which is at the Mediterranean region of Turkey, are under persistent attacks of MIP ...

Mothers cry out: We are women, we are mothers, we stand for peace!

UID-DER Women’s Committee 27 March 2013

(06.04.2013) More than 50 thousand people lost their lives during the unjust war waged by Turkish state against Kurdish people. The victims were all children of poor Turkish and Kurdish people. For decades ...

Are Workers Destined to Pay the Bill of the Crisis?

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(16.03.2013) Does the crisis of capitalist system flow from lack of products? Of course not! The true reason for the recurring ...

Solidarity Message to Japanese Workers For 11 March Anti-Nuclear Action

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(10.03.2013) As your class brothers and sisters in Turkey we fully support your courageous and determined struggle against nuclear ...

Trade Unions and Legal Barriers to Getting Unionised

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(25.02.2013) The law of trade unions and the law of collective bargaining, strike and lock-out were combined into a single law on 7 ...

The System of Subcontracting: Wild Exploitation, Fatal Workplace Accidents!

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(16.02.2013) On 7th January, 8 miners were killed at a mine accident in Kozlu, Zonguldak. Their families were thrown into a deep ...

A March in Honour of Worker Victims of Kozlu Mine

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(19.01.2013) On 13 January the families of workers who have lost their lives in workplace accidents marched in Taksim, Istanbul, in ...

Şişecam Workers Show the Way: Fight and Win!

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(13.01.2013) On 5 January around 450 workers of Şişecam occupied the factory they have been working for many years. The factory is ...

Who Will Benefit 2013 Budget and What Will Workers Get?

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(11.01.2013) Workers and toilers are expecting in hope a betterment of their lives as the turn of the year approaches. Although the ...

Collective Bargaining Negotiations in Metal Industry

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(17.12.2012) In their training programmes carried out in the framework of the Hard and Dangerous Works Code metal workers are told: ...

Beat Fear, Avoid Artificial Polarisations!

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(15.11.2012) All workers are afraid of being unemployed, of not being able to pay the rent and the bills, of not being able to feed ...

Unite Against Price Hikes, High Cost of Living and the War!

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(15.10.2012) Prices keep going up making the life of toilers unbearable and aggravating poverty. The AKP government announced the ...

Stop Workers Dying of Workplace Accidents!

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(01.11.2012) Workplace accidents have been increasing day by day. Every day we are hearing news about occupational accidents from ...

Solidarity Action by Tumtis for Iranian and Swaziland Workers

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(17.10.2012) On 11th October Turkish union TUMTIS (Motor Vehicle Workers’ Union) organized a solidarity action together with the ...

Opening Event in UID-DER Sefaköy Branch

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(14.10.2012) The seventh term of UID-DER activities was started by an opening event in UID-DER’s Sefaköy Branch (Istanbul) on 7 ...

Repression of KESK and Arrests

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(05.10.2012) The first hearing of the case against 15 women trade-unionists of KESK (Confederation of Public Employees Unions) was ...

Strengthen the Unity of Workers and Fraternity of Peoples!

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(15.09.2012) Workers, toilers, brothers/sisters!A bloody civil war is going on in Syria; tens of people are dying everyday, ...

Australian Construction Workers Thank UİD-DER in Their Message

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Thank you comrades for your message of support, which will be read out to a mass meeting on Tuesday morning as the struggle continues,

Comradely greetings,

17.09.2012

Solidarity Message to Australian Construction Workers

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(08.09.2012) As workers who are members of the Association of International Workers’ Solidarity in Turkey we salute your struggle. ...

Statement of the Ministry of Labour to UİD-DER

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(22.08.2012) The Ministry of Labour and Social Security sent a statement to UİD-DER which carried out a campaign against the ...