Cost of Living and Capital Order: Customer-Worker Encounter

While the high cost of living and falling wages bring market workers and citizens face to face, DİSK is ready to launch an awareness campaign. Customers' anger is directed at market workers, not at those who set prices. Market worker and DİSK Commission Member Gülbin Demirel says, "Whenever a product with a high price or a wrong label is seen, an expired product is encountered, or the cash register is busy, cameras come out immediately." Stating that workers are subjected to rudeness when they make a statement in the face of any complaint, and that they are exposed when they defend themselves, Demirel says that images of throwing products, breaking eggs inside the store, disrupting shelves and similar images are spread on social media with the messages "They are not doing their job, can anyone work like this?", and this reinforces the anger against the workers. Pointing out that no one questions why a worker is forced to work at the cash register, aisle, warehouse and cleaning at the same time, Demirel emphasizes that the main problem is the capital order rather than the customer and says: "It is not surprising that people are angry. The cost of living is increasing, wages are decreasing. The customer complains about the high prices, and the market worker is oppressed under the same cost of living and long working hours with the low wage he receives. The one who targets the worker in the market and the store is coming out of a tiring work. While the exploitation created by capital becomes invisible, the customer and the customer are oppressed." "The workers are being pitted against each other, it is the system itself that we should be angry with."