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Cuma, 28 Mayıs 2010 16:51 |
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Tekel Direnişi: Hava Döndü İşçiden, İşçiden Yana Esiyor Yel. Tekel Struggle: The Wind Blows From The Workers
Synopsis: In November 2003, Turkish State’s ruling party AKP sold the TEKEL alcohol and spirits plants to a national consortium (MEY) for $292 million. Despite the fraud and corruption behind TEKEL’s privatization, the new owners were further granted bank credits with no down payment for a period of two years. The “new owners” in turn had re-sold the alcohol and spirits component of TEKEL to Texas Pacific Group in 2 years time for a total of $900 million! The private owners of TEKEL dismissed their “promised” obligations for maintaining production activities and since 2003, five of the enterprises were shut down, displacing 12,000 workers. The story didn’t end at this point but continued with the brutal actions of AKP goverment. The move of the AKP government to veto the workers’ existing contracts and force them to accept part-time conditions with significant loss of pay and of social rights. On December 15, 2009, despite the severe cold, poor conditions of the street-life, and brutal assaults of the ruling AKP government, the workers’ of TEKEL (the recently privatized public enterprise producing cigarettes, tobacco, alcohol and spirits) had taken the streets of the main district of Ankara as the center of resistance. Declaring the conditions as unacceptable, the TEKEL workers’ resistance movement began. This struggle is the re-emerging spirit of proletariat and how workers try to change the history of labor in Turkey. This documentary film is telling the story of this struggle, supported by the interviews done with TEKEL workers and other workers that support them. Interviews focus on the following issues: 1- Privatization (Turkey Tobacco politics: impose a quota on tobacco production and privatization on tobacco industry)
2- What is the proposed new contract which is known with its identifying code: the 4-C? Why don’t the Tekel workers want it? And how it’s one of the results of the capitalist economic politics all over the world.
3- What were the working conditions in the factories while they were working?
4- Struggle process;
4.1. The importance to be organized in a labor union
4.2. What is the relationship between union and workers? How has it changed during the struggle? How has the workers controlled the union? (scenes from demostrations and actions against union burocracy)
4.3 Tekel workers' determination and tenacity.
5- The ideas about government ( AKP). the ideas about nationalism which pumping out by the goverment ( The ideas in evolution : What were their ideas before the struggle and what do they think now? )
6- The relationship between Tekel workers and other workers and oppressed society ( supports, affects)
7- What is the importance of Tekel struggle for Turkey working class.
In other words this documentary tells how the weather is changed by the labor, and the wind blows from the worker. Duration: 40 minutes Filmmakers: iscinet
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