Workers and peoples flocking to the May 1 celebrations in 10 cities and counties from Edirne to Kars are saying that they will destroy the order of war and exploitation. Thousands of people, walking shoulder to shoulder with the slogan of unity, solidarity and struggle, started to fill the celebration areas.
Placing a wreath in Taksim Square, DİSK Chair Arzu Çerkezoğlu, said: "The place where May 1 should be celebrated is the Taksim Square".
Balance of payments posted a deficit of 1.82 billion dollars in July. Thus, the 12-month current account deficit was 14 billion 941 million.
According to the Consumer Confidence Index announced by the TurkStat for August, the consumer confidence index has dropped to 59.6 percent. In July, the index also dropped when compared with the previous month.
"In the near term, policies need to cushion the impact of the Covid-19 crisis and protect the most vulnerable through temporary and targeted fiscal support," the fund has stated in its External Sector Report.
The average prices of 253 out of 428 items in the inflation basket have increased, according to the TurkStat.
Adana Food-Work Regional Represantative Gökhan İmrek, making a call for support for the organization campaign called 'Bosses must be responsible for the crisis and the pandemic', said: "Covid- 19 must be considered a working accident".
Despite the threat of coronavirus outbreak, hundreds of workers are working side by side at the North Marmara Motorway construction site.
Citizens who are kept waiting in queues in fron of fruit and vegetable stalls installed by the government, complains about the lack of affordability. Citizens think that a permanent solution must be found. One of the citizens waiting in the queue, Mahmut Açıköz, said: "Does wealthy people wait in queues to buy vegetables?"
İzban workers have started a stoppage this morning for their demand of salary increase was denied. Demiryol-İş Union İzmir Branch President Hüseyin Ervüz said: "We will not accept the wages between 850 TL- 2 thousand 500TL which our members can barely live from hand to mouth."
Republican People's Party (CHP) İstanbul Parliamentarian and Health, Family, Labor and Social Affairs Commission member Ali Şeker said his application on the working accidents in the 3rd airport was responded by Presedential Communications Center as: "52 fatal occupational accidents occured in the İstanbul Airport construction between 2013- 2018."
SES Co-chair Gönül Erden said that they will protest the new "Violence in Health Bill of Law" with the discharged doctors and the doctors who could not pass the security clearance. Erden said: 'We will raise out voices against those imposing death on us'
Solidarity with 3rd Airport Workers Platform said 'Who is the worker you killed and dissappeared at the airport?' for the worker whose body was found in the storm drain of the airport worksite.
In the last few months hundreds of companies went into administration. Murat Özveri, who emphasized that companies are going into bankrupcy, because they are in a debt spiral said the injured party is the labourers again.
While TUİK publishes the unemployement reports of July 2018 as 3 million 531 thousand, DİSK- AR expressed the wide described numbers as 6 million 300 thousand people.