Soykan: 'We commemorate KARDEMİR with gratitude and gratitude'; The activities to stop life, which were carried out on November 8, 1994, in order not to close Karabük Iron and Steel Factories, which include a series of reactions such as the people not sending their children to school for 4 hours, closing shutters, and stopping transportation, were once again commemorated by the activities organized by Öz Çelik İş Union.
Due to the 8th anniversary of the 25th November actions, Karabük Deputy Governor Barboros Baran, Provincial Police Chief Sırrı Tuğ, KARDEMİR General Manager Dr. Hüseyin Soykan, Assistant General Managers, Özçelik Business Union Vice-Presidents Bayram Altun, Recep Akyel, Hicret Bozoklu, Şendika Branch President Ulvi Üngören and Branch Management, Political Party and Non-Governmental Organizations representatives and KARDEMİR staff attended.
5 April decisions and the struggle after the events began with a cinevision show, the General Manager of KARDEMIR. Hüseyin Soykan, in his speech, mentioned about the historical past of the factory and said that Kardemir renews its production technologies and increases their efficiency with the investments made after the privatization.
Stating that the success is the fruits of the struggle in 1994, General Manager Dr. Hüseyin Soykan “Karabük Iron and Steel Factories are indispensable for our region and our country. 25 decided to close these factories with a decision taken years ago, but the decision of closure was abandoned and transferred to Kardemir Joint Stock Company as a result of the struggle of the workers, retirees, artisans-officers, students and all Karabük people with a great sense of ownership. 8 November, which is a historical day in which unity and solidarity and social solidarity and ownership sense is monolithic, is once again understood to be justified in the struggle of our employees and the people of Karabük. Such that; Karabük Iron and Steel Factories, which have been decided to close in 1994, have been continuing their production for thousands of years and continue to be the door of bread for thousands of employees and still remain indispensable not only for Karabük and the regional economy but also for our country. ”
Stating that he remembers the supporters of this struggle and those who own KARDEMİR with gratitude and gratitude in his speech, General Manager Soykan said that today KARDEMİR is the only brand of our country in the production of rail and railway wheels, heavy profile production, thick coil production, and its production capacity is 500 thousand tons. He noted that it has reached 3 million tons and that it has achieved new targets by producing steel grades for the automotive and defense industry in line with the 100 targets, which is the 2023th anniversary of our Republic.
Soykan stated that they have continued to work to make KARDEMİR a company that has completed environmental investments, strengthened its corporate structure and has become one of the world's largest integrated iron and steel plants, which has achieved more competitive and sustainable achievements. stating that they have human resources, 25 8 years ago in November with the determination of KARDEMİR've opened the doors of the KARDEMİR've kept alive and thanked all segments of the society who contributed separately.
Özçelik-İş Union Deputy Chairman Bayram Altun stated in his speech that the events that took place in KARDEMİR on 8 November and that all the processes that KARDEMİR has passed since its establishment should be analyzed well.
Reminding that KARDEMİR is wanted to be closed due to the economic changes of 5 April 1994 and the technological life of the factory, reminding that the KARDEMİR is wanted to be closed with the reason that the factory has completed its technological life, Altun stated that the spirit of November 8 has emerged and is unprecedented. The first torch of his struggle was burned with the slogan 'KARDEMİR cannot be closed, Karabük cannot be darkened'. As a result of the glorious resistance given by the Hak-İş Confederation and Özçelik-İş Union on 8 November 1994, the Government gave up the closure of Kardemir and the factory was privatized with a symbolic price of 1 TL. ”
Looking at the process, Altun said that KARDEMİR has made its investments to increase its capacity to 3.500.000 tons today and said: “It was a happy struggle, KARDEMİR, which was established and sustained with great efforts, would almost disappear from our palms. The future of not only KARDEMİR but also Karabük would have been darkened if we had not done that struggle. It was an honored struggle, today KARDEMİR's chimneys would not smoke, thousands of people could not bring bread to their home. "If KARDEMİR was allowed to knock on his door, we would witness a city turning back into a village."
Kardemir, one of the world's leading manufacturers in the iron and steel industry, is proud of the national moves made by Özçelik İş Union Vice President Bayram Altun, Kardemir's commitment to the defense industry and domestic automobile in the coming process and will put his responsibility said. .
Commemoration program, poetry and composition competitions organized by the Directorate of National Education students and the football field football tournament organized by the union ended with the presentation of the award teams.
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