reports in ECONOMY - LABOR category

“You think being a teacher is more than that, it’s teaching, it’s touching people’s lives, the world, the country, any other thing — but at the end of the day you only think about what can I eat cheaper today and how can I pay the rent."

Workers from an Eskişehir power plant are demanding their unpaid wages and improved working conditions.

Seven female workers, including three minors, were killed in the November incident.

The owners of the plant, Yıldızlar SSS Holding, is facing the second labor action in recent months due to unpaid wages.

Merve Yılmazelli was killed after a weaving driver hit her motorcycle.

Over 200 workers were killed in June alone, including six children, 10 women and 14 migrants.

The academics criticized the school management, claiming the university has long been run "like a family business."

Hundreds of faculty members were dismissed in two and a half years at İstanbul's private universities. Dr. Tuğçe Nur Biga and Dr. Gönül Karabolu point out that the layoffs threaten not only the rights of academics but also the scientific production capacity of universities.

The removal of state purchase guarantees in the country's mining sector has shifted financial risks to workers, triggering a wave of labor strikes and union resistance against wage theft and unsafe conditions.

Pensioners, the vast majority of whom struggle on meager incomes that fall far below the poverty line, will receive a 17.76% increase.

The city's monthly inflattion stood at 1.14%.

Two Bosphorus bridges were spared from the second hike of the year.