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Memur-Sen is with Health Workers! LONG LIVE OUR LABOUR, OUR BREAD and OUR ELBOW GREASE!
04.05.21, Tuesday
Memur-Sen read the May 1st declaration in the garden of Ankara City Hospital to support healthcare professionals struggling with the pandemic at the forefront.
In the program carried out within the scope of pandemic measures, Memur-Sen's May 1st statement was read, carnations were left for healthcare workers who were martyred at the beginning of their duties, and carnations were distributed to hospital staff on duty.
President Ali Yalçın also made a speech drawing attention to the agenda and demands of laborers.
Healthcare Professionals Have Problems Awaiting Solution
Ali Yalçın, President of Memur-Sen, said, "There is still the mistake of contracted health workers in Turkey. As in all public, contracting in health sector should end. The lack of personnel in the field of health should be eliminated, the workload should be eased. Reading the May 1st declaration of the Confederation, President Yalçın stated that they dedicated May 1st of this year to health workers who resisted the virus and were at the forefront in the fight against the pandemic.
Expressing their gratitude and expressing their mercy from Allah to the 415 health workers who lost their lives during the pandemic, Yalçın reminded that this year was declared as the "International Year of Healthcare Professionals" due to the death of more than 7 thousand healthcare workers around the world. Emphasizing that healthcare workers have problems waiting to be solved in Turkey, Yalçın listed the following demands: "The circulating fund should not hurt the health workers, let their heart and their pocket be relieved. Supplementary payments should be met from the central budget, not from the non-rotating budget. There is still the mistake of contracted health workers in Turkey. As in all public, contracting in health should end. The lack of personnel in the field of health should be eliminated, the workload should be reduced. We should prevent the attacks on the mental, physical and mental health of those who protect our health altogether, we should stop violence in health."
Human is the Producer, Protector and Supervisor of Labor
Yalçın stated that they would not accept a world in which there is no human, human mind is not based and human morality is ignored, "If human dignity and rights are ignored, there is no democracy. There is no freedom. There is no law, state, competence, no merit. If there is no human, there is no production, no consumption." "There is no economy. If there is no human being, there is no working life, no work. The human is the producer, protector and observer of labor, the valuer, the deliverer of his rights. All ideologies that tend to destroy and burden people and their labour are doomed to end, and states to collapse."