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Friday, 19 November 2021 (YJC)_ Thousands of workers took to the streets in Izmir province to protest high prices and high inflation in Turkey, demanding a balance between pay and taxes.
Rising inflation and the high cost of living and the cost of living in Turkey have drawn large numbers of workers to the streets, saying they can not make ends meet.
The independent news site Bayanet reported:
Thousands of workers took to the streets in Izmir with members of the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey (DİSK) to demand equal income and taxes.
According to the report, the representative of the workers' confederation in the Aegean region also called for a one-day strike on the eve of negotiations on the minimum wage.
"We can not afford to live," said workers who took to the streets in Izmir province on Thursday at the call of the Turkish Trade Union Confederation.
Accordingly, thousands of workers gathered in Republic Square in Izmir, chanting slogans such as "Jobs, bread, freedom", "Budget for workers, not for the palace", "Punishment of the capital's workers' union" against the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "The government will kill you", "We want human wages" and demanded the resignation of the government.
According to this news website, the workers' protest took place in the midst of the current 2022 budget negotiations in the Program and Budget Commission of the Turkish Parliament and on the eve of the 2022 minimum wage negotiations.
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