Urgent help needed – Meryem Özsögüt
The Turkish government has jailed a woman trade unionist, Meryem Özsögüt, and has kept her in detention for nearly six months. LabourStart – the international work justice website has called on supporters and people of good will to give Meryem our much needed help. Meryem is a leader of the public sector union SES, and Public Services International (PSI) has launched a big online campaign demanding her release.
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This campaign will not take off, and we will not secure Meryem’s release, unless we can mobilize thousands of concerned people from around the world. Please do what you can to help this campaign go to lots of people that you know — forward it to other email lists, feel free to post information on church-related websites, use Facebook and blogs to spread the word …
July 1st, 2008 at 9:55 am
[...] Urgent help needed – Meryem Özsögüt [...]
September 10th, 2008 at 7:31 am
Great news:Turkish woman trade union leader Meryem Özsögüt has been released from jail.
In a statement issued today by Public Services International, it was reported that Meryem’s union — SES — “thanked the international community for its support and solidarity via the LabourStart campaign as well as PSI affiliates”
and others.
(The full statement is on the PSI website – http://www.world-psi.org/ )
Over the last 10 weeks, 8,586 of you sent off your messages of protest in one of the largest campaigns LabourStart has ever mounted. It has now been crowned with success.
This should inspire all of us to sign up to the remaining campaigns — particularly those protesting repression directed against trade unionists in South Korea and Iran. The full list of current campaigns is here:
http://www.labourstart.org/actnowen.shtml
And remember — LabourStart receives no corporate or government funding. To conduct our campaigns we rely on your generosity. Please contribute today:
http://www.labourstart.org/donate.shtml