NEWS CENTER - While the workers working in the Merinos factory in Antep, which did not stop production despite the epidemic, continues to get infected with the virus, an announcement was made, stating that the workers who get infected will be imposed a fine.
In the announcement posted by the Board of Directors, it was said: "All of our workers will isolate themselves at their homes while our factory is closed in order not to get infected. At the end of this period, a fine will be imposed on our personnel who are diagnosed with the virus.
While many workers working in the factory are infected with virus, workers continue to work at risk of contamination in the industrial zone.
Revolutionary Textile Workers Union (DEV-Tekstil) affiliated to DISK, stating that the virus continues to spread in factories located in Antep Industrial Zone, drew attention to the victimization of the workers with their written statement on the subject.
'HUMANITY IS BEING TESTED IN FACTORIES'
The statements reads: "Employees from carpet weaving and textile factories insistantly said that their friends were being infected with the virus, that they don't have life safety and that measures must be taken as soon as possible. Some factories were closed for a certain period of time, and some of them were closed for a short time, but they were not permanent. Finally, tens of thousands of workers are compelled to work face to face with the virus in the factories in Antep. This epidemic, which emerged from the factory in Antep, is transmitted to others from the workers who caught the virus. Thus, it becomes a social problem that threatens everyone. Despite the fact that the people who have been exposed to the virus are workers working in the factories in the industrial area, the production is continued as if there is no virus. To put it shortly, humanity is being tested at the factories. Workers too has a right to life."