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Debt-stricken Fiskobirlik planning to fire 100 workers
He said the move was necessary to be able continue into the future by holding down costs.
Speaking to the Anatolia news agency on Sunday, Bayraktar said Fiskobirlik owes nearly TL 80 million to the Social Security Institution (SGK), the Finance Ministry and workers, to whom it has failed to pay wages for five months.
Fiskobirlik has been trying to make improvements, Bayraktar asserted, stating that “we will pull out all the stops.” Bayraktar further noted that in the government’s permanent staff decree in 2006, Fiskobirlik was given a permanent staff of 593 workers.
“However, Fiskobirlik currently employs 477 persons in its own operations and in related cooperatives. We haven’t hired even one worker since we came to office. Besides, we weren’t able to operate in the hazelnut market due to our financial troubles.
We asked our workers to make sacrifices and suggested that they work in a rotation of nine months in a year instead of a full 12 months. This was turned down by the workers and their unions. Fiskobirlik has monthly expenses of TL 2 million,” Bayraktar said, explaining why the union is firing 100 workers.
He stated that he was expecting understanding from everyone since this move will help the union continue into the future.
Bayraktar also wanted the Soil Products Office (TMO) to lend assistance to Fiskobirlik, which has nearly 400,000 tons of TMO’s hazelnuts stored in its warehouses. He said TMO was planning to allocate a large percentage of this hazelnut stock to oil production and expressed a request by Fiskobirlik for at least 50,000 tons of this product, on condition of repaying the cost in the future. “TMO will sell the hazelnuts it doesn’t use for oil production for Kr 50 per kilo. We are ready to pay TL 1 per kilo, but we don’t have the money to buy it at present,” he said and went on to assert that the union could process this hazelnut stock, add value to it and earn at least TL 25 million in profits. He said TMO can pursue every phase of processing and selling the hazelnuts if it so desires, but reiterated that Fiskobirlik’s suggestion would be a win-win situation for TMO, Fiskobirlik and producers.
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