Birleşik Metal İş COVID -19 Report: Pandemic has became a workers’ disease
İstanbul, 20.11.2020 Birleşik Metal İş COVID -19 Report: Pandemic has became a workers’ disease Birleşik Metal İş has shared the reality of Covid-19 in the workplaces where our Union is organized in the press conference which we organized jointly with the İstanbul Chamber of Medicine. The epidemic reached serious proportions in the metal industry. There are active cases in three quarters of the workplaces where our union is organized. The rate of workers diagnosed with Covid-19 has reached 30% in some workplaces. The number of active cases in the manufacturing industry is at least 112 thousand. 3 million 280 thousand workers in the manufacturing industry work under the risk of an imminent epidemic caused by the working environment. If the rate of epidemic in our unions organized workplaces would represent the entire population; the number of cases would be 2 […]
