A 12-year-old child working as a shepherd in Antep has lost his life after going in an irrigation pond to take his stick that fell into water.

Workers of the country's largest glass manufacturer previously announced they would start a strike today.

Seventy-two percent of the small shop owners are "concerned" over the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, accorind to a new survey.

“Commercial activities to be undertaken with the aim of getting economic benefits have been excluded from the ban. Thus, it is a decision that protects the employer while disregarding workers’ rights,” says Aksu from the Independent Mine Workers’ Union.

According to a report by the DİSK Confederation's Research Center, the increase in labor productivity does not lead to an increase in wages. While productivity has increased by 51.1 percent in 8 years, unit wage has increased by 14.8 percent.

“Turkey 2020 Report” of the European Commission has referred to the dismissal of 45 journalists from daily Hürriyet for their trade union activities. Journalists’ Union of Turkey (TGS) İstanbul Chair Banu Tuna has commented on the report for bianet.

"This was a warning protest. We are preparing to halt work in entire İstanbul," a union representative has said.

According to the “Consumer Price Index” figures shared by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) for September 2020, the consumer price index increased by 0.97 percent in a month and by 11.75 percent in a year.

The government had increased the tax to 1 percent in May.

With a recent book, the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey (DİSK) has memorialized the first chapter of its decades-long contribution to labor movement: “If the historical memory of an organization disappears, its identity disappears as well.”

Central Bank has increased the policy rate from 8.25 to 10.25 percent. “The tightening steps taken since August should be reinforced in order to contain inflation expectations and risks to the inflation outlook,” the Bank has noted.

15-year-old seasonal agricultural worker Ayşe Daş has lost her life in Urfa after a minibus rolled over. In Maraş province, two child workers have been hospitalized as they were affected by the smell of an insulating material.

Boğaziçi University has released a quantitative study on employee experiences during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Research Center of the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey (DİSK-AR) has released a “Report on Pay Gap” on the occasion of International Equal Pay Day.

“All my payments have been delayed, the landlady has not been getting the rent for three months. I need to pay them all this month. We try not to use electricity and water. We constantly go to our father’s house to avoid expenses… I am still looking for a job.”

The DİSK Genel-İş union has surveyed its members about the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Not given their wages or severance payments for months, the miners from Ermenek, Karaman have decided to march to the capital city of Ankara on October 1 as the negotiations with their employer have achieved no results.

The Research Center of the DİSK has prepared a report on the 40th year of the September 12 military coup. The report of the confederation has shown that 60 of 68 billion dollars of privatization were done in the ruling AKP period.

The share of the poorest 20 percent slightly increased while Gini coefficient stood at 0.395, according to a TurkStat survey.

Mineworkers in Karaman province have been dismissed after they refrained from working because of unpaid salaries.