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poses to organisation, and it is in the government’s interests to
produce labour laws that make the conditions of sub-contracting
even more severe.” The existing law on sub-contracting “essentially
has paragraphs that limit sub-contracting and amending these is
an an indication that a lot of public-sector work is to be sub-con-
tracted,” he said. It would be necessary to resist this. Sub-contract-

ing today is the result of the 12 September fascism (1980 military
coup in Turkey) and the 24 January decisions, he stressed, and
people who think that the AKP is confronting the legacy of 12
September need to examine the laws on sub-contracting.

For his part, Asci noted that although the subcontracting law
states that the actual business cannot be transferred to the sub-
contractor, in practice health and a number of other areas were
affected and drew attention to a large number of workplace deaths

among sub-contracted workers. He touched on the unsafe condi-
tions on sub-contracted mine workers, and how in 2012 miners
of this type were killed as a result of a mine caving in. Again, in
2012 in Samsun, shipyard workers were crushed by a falling winch,
and Asci used this to discuss the legal implications of sub-contract-
ing.

The worker Cansel Malatyali described working at IMO and
being fired, and the need for support from trade unions and dem-

ocratic mass organisations, and how for workers seeking rights this
was a black mark on history. The search for rights could not pro-
ceed through the legal road alone, and resistance was legitimate
and the means of achieving victory.

One of the resisting Kazova workers, Bulent Unal, described
the resistance of Kazova workers. He touched on the legitimacy of

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