This article will not be short.
Because it is not short.
This article is not a slogan; it is a political-intellectual reckoning written in a language that everyone can understand.
At the center is the worker. Around it is the warehouse, in front of it is capital, behind it is the yellow union, above it is silent politics.
What is happening in Turkey today is not a wage negotiation.
This is the bankruptcy of an organized labor regime.
The Lie of Affordability: Where is the Real Price Being Paid?
Market shelves are full.
The ads are bright.
“discount”, “cheapest”, “people-friendly price” everywhere.
But nobody is saying this:
This cheapness is not produced at the checkout.
It is produced in the warehouse.
Migros, BİM and A101 follow the same model:
10-12 hour shifts
Salaries slightly above the minimum wage
Net income eroded by tax brackets
Subcontracted warehouse labor
Continuous speed, performance and printing
This is a “competition imperative” It isn't.
This is a conscious class choice.
Cheapness is not a favor to the consumer;
It is a subsidy to capital.
The Warehouse: The Secret Factory of This Order
Warehouses are today's factories.
There is no chimney, the smoke is invisible.
The warehouse worker does not only carry parcels:
Carries the burden of inflation
Carries the price of wrong economic policies
Carries the silence of politics
So when the warehouse worker stands up,
actually speaks to everyone.
What Do Workers Want? (Concrete and Clear)
The organized address of this struggle at the grassroots level is DGD-SEN.
Workers' demands are not imaginary, but measurable and controllable:
Net %50 ücret artışı
(şirketlerin sunduğu %28 artış “poverty hike” as rejected)
Transferring the tax burden to the employer
Abolition of subcontracting, permanent and secure employment
Providing all bank promotions to workers
Equal rights without warehouse-store discrimination
Real implementation of occupational health and safety
These are not luxuries.
These are the minimum conditions to live.
Where and How Widespread?
This objection is not singular, it is nationwide:
Migros warehouses: Istanbul (Esenyurt), Kocaeli (Çayırova-Şekerpınar), Izmir (Torbalı), Bursa, Adana, Diyarbakır
BIM warehouse Van
Work stoppages at 12 locations, work slowdowns at nearly 20 locations
Around 5,000 warehouse workers in action
This table shows that the problem is model, not individual.
The Reality of the Yellow Union: Representation or Control?
Why did it come to this?
Because it is an important part of the trade union field in Turkey,
from being the organization of the worker to the manager of the worker.
“Yellow union” is what we call:
Strike “risk” counar
Action “untimely” finds
To the worker “be patient” der
Harmony with the boss “success” as he presents
Compromise at the table,
loneliness in the warehouse.
In this order:
Türk-Is predominantly “social dialogue”u,
Hak-İş is in line with the government,
DİSK, on the other hand, represents a line that has difficulty in establishing sectoral continuity despite its historical claim.
Conclusion: The real struggle sprouts from outside these main currents, from the grassroots.
Where is Politics? This is the Question
It is known that the government manages labor through repression.
This is not surprising.
The real problem is the opposition's silence.
Especially the Republican People's Party.
Thousands of workers are walking off the job,
subcontracting is spreading,
real wages are collapsing...
But from the opposition:
Generic statements
“We are with you” sentences
Cost-free messages of support
It is not enough.
Open Question to CHP: 86 Rallies, Where are the Workers?
Let's set the record straight.
We openly ask the CHP:
For names accused of corruption
who held 86 rallies,
CHP mobilizes squares, rostrums and cameras every time,
Where will it be for the workers resisting in the warehouses?
Why are there rallies every week but
No single square for a 12-hour warehouse worker?
Why? “lawlessness” when it comes to
party cadres come to mind first
no workers are coming who are trying to survive on just above the minimum wage?
Why is the defense reflex so fast?,
labor reflexes so weak?
This is not a miscommunication.
This is a priority choice.
You are a party,
for 86 times for their own cadres,
but when it comes to workers “we are watching” if he's content to say,
The problem there is not opposition weakness,
is class positioning.
This is a Social Issue, Not a Warehouse Issue
Today he's a warehouse worker.
Courier tomorrow.
Then teachers, health workers, white-collar workers.
This system cheapens everyone.
If the warehouse worker is left alone today,
no one will be safe tomorrow.
Open Call to the Public, Trade Unions and Politics
Ring
Silence is not neutrality.
Solidarity is not a virtue, it is self-defense.
Trade unions:
Either you become the real organization of the worker,
or you remain the human resources department of this system.
Political parties:
Not a slogan but a price,
We want sides, not a general sentence.
Yes or no to outsourcing?
Front or balance to capital?
Be clear.
NO MORE MIDDLE GROUND
This article is not a request.
One “awareness” not the text at all.
This is a declaration of purification.
Warehouses are talking.
Workers are speaking.
I don't think anyone “don't stand in the middle” he doesn't have the luxury.
Either you are on the side of labor,
or you are de facto responsible for maintaining this order.
That much is clear.