Hopeless Union: We've got our hands off the institutions, they don't even do the slightest job.

Independent Private Sector Union Chairman Jusuf Azemi voices concern over rising cases of death in the workplace, noting that only in the first quarter of this year are eight victims registered.

It's a serious case when in a workplace a worker dies for very little neglect. It could have come to the rescue. He's been working on his isolation, he's slipped the dirt, and unfortunately one worker died while receiving medical treatment. We take all the cases with a much greater concern, but to change the situation is not only the union, but also the inspectorate and company owners should be the ones to make their contribution”, he said, for Online Economy, broadcast Periscope.

Azemi said 95 percent of workers are without protective equipment and that there is no financial support for victims' families, adding that the union is taking private initiative to help these families.

The hard time I visited them, but the serious case is that this family that this worker has lost has been left with a pension and has no funding. The most serious is what is happening to us in families that are in serious social condition, and we as institutions are not willing to at least have financial support for a long period. The moment the laborer dies, he's dead with everything”

They're not doing the job right, because these workers were on weekends. Instead of resting these, they have been forced to work on weekends. It is normal that they are not carrying out the Law's mission of security and health at work. There are cases of deaths that divert them in order to benefit company owners. Any company that has over 25 employees is obliged to have the certified person in terms of job risk. If we had a state these people would be accountable and responsible”, Azemi said.

He said the most serious is that they do not have an activity of owners and companies to improve working conditions.

The worst “this year has only begun a difficult year in the first three months, we have eight cases of death in their workplace, which hasn't happened since 2000 and the hardest that we don't have an activity of owners and companies to improve working conditions, 95 percent of the workers are without risk equipment, inspectors pass past them and never give them what they paid for, he told EO.

Azem added that institutions are not doing enough to prevent these tragedies and that the union has taken the private initiative to help the victims' families.

“We've taken our hands from our institutions, not doing the job, not the least”, concluded chairman of the private sector trade union. /Periscope/