A Brief on the Metal Workers’ Strike in Turkey
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A Brief on the Metal Workers’ Strike in Turkey
Dear Friends, Dear Comrades, First of all, let us thank you at the beginning and once again, for your show of solidarity with the metal workers of Turkey. The bargaining process which covered more than a hundred thousand workers was a candidate to
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