{"id":11305,"date":"2021-01-21T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=152984"},"modified":"2021-01-21T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T16:47:00","slug":"these-cargill-workers-in-turkey-have-spent-over-1000-days-protesting-their-unfair-firing-a-conversation-with-suat-karlikaya-a-lead-organizer-with-the-tobacco-drink-food-and-allied-worker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/21\/these-cargill-workers-in-turkey-have-spent-over-1000-days-protesting-their-unfair-firing-a-conversation-with-suat-karlikaya-a-lead-organizer-with-the-tobacco-drink-food-and-allied-worker\/","title":{"rendered":"These Cargill Workers in Turkey Have Spent Over 1,000 Days Protesting Their Unfair Firing \u2013 A conversation with Suat Karlikaya, a lead organizer with the Tobacco, Drink, Food and Allied Workers Trade Union of Turkey."},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>Production workers at Cargill Turkey were unfairly dismissed on April <span class=\"numbers\">17<\/span>, <span class=\"numbers\">2018<\/span>, while trying to unionize. Listeners will probably recognize the name Cargill: Based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, Cargill is the largest privately held corporation in the United States. And Cargill\u2019s reach is truly global, with operations around the world focusing on the trade, purchase, distribution and production of agricultural commodities, energy, livestock and ingredients for processed food. When workers at a&nbsp;Cargill starch plant in Bursa-Orhangazi tried to unionize under Tekg\u0131da-\u0130\u015f (the Tobacco, Drink, Food and Allied Workers Trade Union of Turkey), they were dismissed for their union activity. Under Turkish law, companies like Cargill can simply pay fines for such human rights violations and factor it into the \u200b<span class=\"pull-double\">\u201c<\/span>cost of doing business.\u201d However, these same companies are not required to reinstate unjustly dismissed workers, even if Turkish courts have definitively ruled that the dismissals were&nbsp;illegal.<\/p>\n<p>For over <span class=\"numbers\">1<\/span>,<span class=\"numbers\">000<\/span>&nbsp;days, these workers and Tekg\u0131da-\u0130\u015f have been fighting an ongoing battle with Cargill to have their jobs reinstated. In this special episode (our first interview that is accessible to both English and Turkish speakers), we talk with Suat Karlikaya, a&nbsp;lead organizer with Tekg\u0131da-\u0130\u015f, about Cargill Turkey\u2019s retaliatory dismissal of workers who tried to unionize\u2009\u2014\u2009and what listeners in and beyond Turkey can do to show solidarity. English and Turkish translations are provided by Burcu Ayan of the IUF (the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers\u2019&nbsp;Associations).<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/21\/these-cargill-workers-in-turkey-have-spent-over-1000-days-protesting-their-unfair-firing-a-conversation-with-suat-karlikaya-a-lead-organizer-with-the-tobacco-drink-food-and-allied-workers-trade\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Production workers at Cargill Turkey were unfairly dismissed on April 17, 2018, while trying to unionize. Listeners will probably recognize the name Cargill: Based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, Cargill\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11306,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11305\/revisions\/11306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}