7 hours agoProtest for May 1st: Voice arose against injustice to workers
Periskopi(a year ago)
(a year ago)On the International Labour Day case, the new KEK Union, the Feminist Kolestik, the Social Centre “Endeavour” and independent activists, in co-operation with other unions, organised a protest march in Pristina protest was held to address difficult working conditions, inflation and lack of workers' rights. [...]
The protest was held to address difficult working conditions, inflation and lack of workers' rights.
The chairman of the new KEK Union, Nedzat Llumnica, stressed that the protest is necessary, due to numerous challenges facing energy sector workers.
Today we are on May 1st, a symbolic day that marks everywhere in the world with protests. We've decided, too, because we have something to protest for. Recent inflation related to electricity prices and necklace products. KEK workers work, challenge, endanger lives and die 1 per cent of the staff as a result of the professional diseases we suspect they get during the work process and KED gets rich in this case. The Kosovo Energy Corporation has sold the price of electricity 29 euros and 50 cents since 2019 was six years old, while for KED, the price of electricity has been raised four times. As a result, we're working, they're becoming millionaires. For this reason, we seek salary hikes, respect for legal rights”, Llumnica said.
On the other hand, Anita Nitaj of Fheminist Kolestik spoke about the additional burden women carry in society, stressing gender inequality and the economic uncertainty they face every day.
We have gathered today, not only to remember May 1 as the International Workers' Day, but also to shout against the injustices that continue to weigh us on our shoulders each day. Women in this society work twice - once at work and then at home, where their work is not known, is not paid, not respected. It is a silent task, held on their shoulders as a natural task. But whenever the economy is discussed, women are not even mentioned. Meanwhile, the minimum wage in Kosovo is not to live. It's for survival. And often it's not enough for that either. Every month workers face impossible choices - pay rent or buy medicine? Fill the fridge or pay for electricity? And when they raise their voices, they are told that they should be grateful that they have a job. This is not a job. This is exploitation. In less than six months, ten workers have lost their lives at the workplace, not by an accident, but by negligence, lack of conditions and contempt for their lives”, Nitaj said. /Periscope/
