We were demonstrating all over the country on Mayday, to stop corporate murders… At least 130 workers lost their lives in Turkey in April 2015…

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07.05.2015
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Workers’ Health and Safety Assembly – WHSA (İşçi Sağlığı ve İş Güvenliği Meclisi) is a labour organization consisting of (private sector) workers, public employees, victims’ families, doctors, engineers, academicians, journalists and their organizations; it coordinates - independent of state and capital – their common struggle for safety and health at workplaces…

The graphic shows the corporate murders in Turkey in the first four months of 2015.

Based on what we could monitor throughout the April month of 2015 from print press, visual and digital media, and the information we have received from both labour organisations, professional bodies, and the statements made by the victims’ relatives, we can say that at least 130 workers have lost their lives in January 2015…

Number of corporate murders in the first four months of 2015 are as follows:

128 workers in January 2015,

85 workers in February 2015,

139 workers in Marcgh 2015, and

130 workers in April 2015 have lost their lives. That makes the sum total of the corporate murders for the first quarter of 2015 at least 482.

This graphic compares the number of corporate murders in April for the years 2012-2015.

We have lost the count of the change of legislation on the health and safety but some new “modifications” have been done. A Law changing the previous Law on Health and Safety and some related decree laws have been piublished in The Official Gazette on April 23, 2015.

However, the number of corporate murders in only the month of April over the last four years gives us the sheer truth: More workers lose their lives every in April over the years..

This graphic gives the share of industrial branches in corporate murders. From right to bottom and to the left: Construction/Road Construction (31%), Agriculture and Forestry (21%), Transport (14%), Commerce/Office/Education…(10%), General Services (6%), the others (18%).

The corporate murders are more frequent in construction industry, transport and commerce/office branches…

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In the Construction branch: 40 dead;

In the Agriculture/Forest works: 27 dead;

In the Transport branch: 19 dead;

In the Commerce/Office/Education etc branch: 13 dead,

In the General Services branch: 8 dead,

In the Mining industry: 3 dead,

In the Metal sector: 3 dead;

In the Health and Social Services sector: 3 dead,

In the Food industry: 2 dead,

In the petro-chemical industry: 2 dead,

In the Cement, Soil and Glass industry: 2 dead,

In the Hospitality branch: 2 dead,;

In the Defence/Security branch: 2 dead,

Branch unknown: 2 dead

Wood and paper industry: 1 worker,

Shipbuilding,/Docks sector: 1 dead worker in the April month 2015.

Of those 130 dead, 108 were registered as workers in private/public; 22 were self-employed (19 small farmers and 3 tradesmen).

This graphic shows the corporate murders according to causes. \from right to bottom and to the left: Traffic/workers’ transit accidents (26%); Falls (21%); Crash/caving (18%); Explosion/Burns (3%); Electrocuting (2%); others (30%).

Most frequent corporate murders were traffic accidents where workers’ transit vehicles were involved. Falls, crashes and the other causes followed

Traffic accidents claimed 34 lives;

Other causes (including heart attacks, suicides, armed attacks, tick bites in the field, bee stings, strokes, lung diseases) claimed 33 workers’ lives;

Falss claimed 27 lives;

Crash/caving claimed 23 lives;

Explosions/burns claimed 4 lives;

Electrocuting claimed 3 lives;

Hitting/fall of an object: claimed 3 lives;

Poisoning/drowning claimed 2 lives;

Cuts/loss of organ claimed 1 life.

This graphic compares the corporate deaths according to genders. Reds are men, blues are women.

In corporate murders during the month of April 2015,

9 female workers,

2 children,

6 migrant workers (including 4 Syrian refugees) died.

This Graphic compares the corporate murders according to the age groups.

We will emphasize here again that, 39 workers either in pension or pension-age died in April 2015. This figure shows the pressure of the economic conditions on old workers and the attention they receive from the state.

This graphic shows the distribution of corporate murders in April 2015 to cities & towns.

Health and Safety work should not be penalised by the ,amangement…

One research fellow at Capa Hospital (IU) has been reprimanded by the management of Isanbul University (IU). Dr Coskun Canivar, representative of the Doctors Chamber at IU, who spoke at a workers meeting publicly against the outsourcing of health services at the university hospital has been given “promotion stop” penalty by the management.

We protest this injustice and say…

Instead of harassing with “promotion stop”,

STOP the outsourcing of health services,

STOP occupational diseases,

STOP working without health and safety,

STOP corporate murders!

Resist, Worker! In Order To Survive and Live

Contact us at

http://www.yanginkulesi.org

http://www.guvenlicalisma.org

http://www.facebook.com/guvenli.calisma

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