“May 1st is the worker's holiday.”
Is that so?
Then let us state the truth frankly:
In this country, workers die while working on their own feast days.
Yes, you didn't hear wrong-
feast day.
On a day that should be celebrated.
On May 1st this year...
eight workers lost their lives.
Not just eight people-
eight lives, eight families, eight unfinished futures.
A 16-year-old boy.
He's 22 years old.
Workers struggling to make ends meet...
Feast Day.
You know the day when slogans like “labor, solidarity, struggle” are chanted in the squares?
on that day, someone is still working.
And it's not just running-
dying.
If we can still call this a “holiday”,
there is no contradiction; there is a clear collapse.
Because if a worker in a country works on his own holiday, this is exploitation.
If he dies on his own holiday, it's no longer exploitation-
is a direct order.
The point is this:
These deaths do not surprise anyone.
Nobody says, “How come?”.
Because everybody knows:
Being a worker in this country is not just a struggle for subsistence, it is a struggle for survival.
And that's the scariest thing.
Not death itself-
habit.
It's not news anymore.
Rutin.
Societies do not collapse through major crises,
by getting used to small deaths.
And we no longer ask:
“Why did these people die?”
We ask this question:
“How many people died today?”
This is Not an Accident, but a Preferred Order
The same sentence is uttered after every death:
“Accident at work.”
These two words are the biggest curtain used to cover the truth.
Because there is no “accident”.
If the same things repeat,
the same people continue to die in the same conditions,
if the same negligence continues-
it's not an accident, it's a system.
And this system did not come about by chance.
It was founded on conscious choices.
Why are workers today working on a holiday?
Because wages are not enough.
Because people are forced to work longer hours to make ends meet.
Because “if you don't work, you starve” has become the harshest disciplinary tool.
This is where the economy comes into play.
Policies that erode wages, cheapen labor and spread precarity...
not only impoverishes the worker-
making him more vulnerable to death.
Let's name it clearly:
This is the result of an economic program that forces workers to work longer and in worse conditions.
More production, lower costs, fewer inspections...
So more risk, more death.
Is there an audit?
It's on paper.
In reality?
It is either non-existent or for show.
Are the unions strong?
No, no, no.
Because organizing is either directly hindered or made de facto impossible.
Can the worker object?
Most of the time, no.
Because losing your job means going hungry.
That's why these deaths are not “unexpected” -
consequences made inevitable.
This is not just a chain of neglect.
This is a blatant set-up.
Where human life is written off as a cost item,
“production first” and forgetting “people first”.
And the most dangerous thing is this:
Unless this order is questioned,
every death produces a new “normal”.
It is not enough to mourn, you have to ask for accountability
The same sentence after every death:
“Our condolences.”
And then what?
One day there is talk.
It is discussed for two days.
On the third day it is forgotten.
This is where the order wins.
Because death is not the problem in this country-
speed of forgetting.
If we really want it not to happen again,
We have to make this not a wishful thinking.
Because the truth is this:
No worker dies because of fate.
None of it is “inevitable”.
None of it is “natural”.
All of this is preventable.
But it is not prevented.
Because it is the workers who pay the price,
not the decision-makers.
So it's not about being sad anymore-
taking sides.
Without clear demands nothing will change:
- Precarious forms of work are either banned or deaths continue
- If wages do not rise to the level of a decent living, people will work harder and take more risks
- If the audit is not independent, there is no audit
- Without real trade union rights, the worker has no voice at all
These are not “political views”,
are the minimum conditions for the right to life.
But here we need to ask the disturbing question:
Who maintains this order?
Only decision makers?
Or are those who remain silent also part of this order?
Because silence is the strongest pillar of this order.
Seeing and keeping silent,
knowing and accepting,
to forget and move on...
All of this feeds this order.
So it is no longer just about shouting slogans in the squares.
Main issue,
pushing this order at work, in the factory, in the workshop, in everyday life.
Because real change doesn't happen in a day,
comes with small struggles every day.
Let's say this clearly:
Another worker dies,
it's not just an economic problem-
is a moral collapse.
And a society,
if it cannot protect its own labor,
he can't protect anything.