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Construction workers' strike in Tanzania ends with gains
Workers of a Turkey-based company had been on a strike in Tanzania for two weeks for their unpaid wages.
18 August 2023
Vecih Cuzdan,Ali Dinç
182 workers killed on the job in July
At least 1051 workers were killed on the job in the first seven months of 2023.
7 August 2023
Protest unfolds at Muğla thermal power plant as workers demand unpaid wages
Over 500 non-union workers blocked the entry and exit of the power plant to protest their employers.
4 August 2023
Motorcycle couriers protest online delivery giant Getir over low wages
Workers formed a convoy and arrived at the company's İstanbul headquarters to demand higher wage increases and a range of other requests.
7 July 2023
Turkey remains among 10 worst countries for workers' rights
"Throughout 2023, workers' freedoms and rights were relentlessly attacked, with law enforcement cracking down on protests and trade union leaders facing unjust arrests," the ITUC report says.
30 June 2023
Unions want tax bracket update in the face of high inflation
Employees earning slightly more than the minimum wage end up earning less than the minimum wage as the year progresses, two union confederations have pointed out.
22 August 2022
TurkStat: Turkey’s unemployment rate stands at 11.5 percent
According to official figures, the narrowly defined number of unemployment became 3 million 894 thousand in March.
10 May 2022
'Women's labor force participation in Turkey lower than any European country'
Despite the trend of increase in the number of women employees in recent years, women's participation in the labor force is still low, says TEPAV.
10 March 2022
Worker protests in Turkey: 65 strikes in 40 days
Workers have been protesting against low wage rises amid high inflation.
16 February 2022
HDP TO MINISTER
‘Does Ministry of Labor make any attempts to learn from workers what they want?’
HDP Adana MP Tülay Hatimoğulları has addressed a Parliamentary question to Minister of Labor and Social Security Bilgin regarding the workers’ protests ongoing across Turkey for the past month.
10 February 2022
Labor rights | 250 resisting workers dismissed from warehouse of Migros market chain
“The workers demanding their daily bread are now deprived of it as well. We know this force, we know this obtrusiveness. Today, workers all across Turkey are resisting it,” said the Chair of Warehouse, Port, Dock and Maritime Workers Union.
10 February 2022
beIN Media Turkey registers journalists as 'marine workers' to prevent unionization
There are formally five different companies within the Digitürk platform and none of them were registered as media companies, bianet has learned.
3 February 2022
Hikmet Adal
Workers throughout Turkey protest low wage hikes amid high inflation
Gig workers of e-commerce companies, journalists and factory workers continue protests.
3 February 2022
BBC journalists continue Turkey's first media strike in 13 years
The strike continues amid cold and snow in İstanbul. We have visited the BBC journalists.
26 January 2022
Hikmet Adal
Household income of 59 percent of public employees below poverty line, finds union survey
Financial difficulties, mobbing, favoritism and job insecurity are among the main problems of public employees, according to the KESK survey.
4 January 2022
DİSK-AR
Average wages in foodservice, construction sectors lower than minimum wage in Turkey
The minimum wage is becoming the average wage in the country, the DİSK-AR noted.
30 December 2021
TURKISH JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION
Journalists in Turkey struggle with wage erosion, unemployment
"At the start of my career, I was earning four times the minimum wage despite only two years of experience. Now I've been working for 22 years and earn 1.5 times the minimum wage," says a journalist.
29 December 2021
Turkey raises minimum wage by 50 percent amid currency crisis, high prices
The government has raised the minimum monthly wage from 2,825 lira to 4,250 lira for the next year.
16 December 2021
Report: Minimum wage meeting delayed due to lira's rapid slide
The minimum wage commission was expected to convene at the start of the week.
14 December 2021
DİSK-AR
'Turkey is becoming a country of minimum wage earners'
As the government is poised to determine next year's minimum wage, the DİSK-AR points out the decrease in the income of weakness.
2 December 2021
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Labor share in GDP decreased despite high growth rate
While Turkey recorded an annual growth rate of 21.7 percent, the labor share in the GDP continued to decline.
1 September 2021
Turkey has the highest share of population outside labor force in Europe
Some 45 percent of the people in the 15-64 age group in Turkey are neither employed nor looking for work.
23 June 2021
Hikmet Adal
'Goalkeepers for hire': A profession in Turkey's artificial turf football
People who played as a goalkeeper in youth football teams seek an additional source of income amid the deepening economic crisis during the coronavirus pandemic.
16 June 2021
Özgür Sarak
Mine collapses in Zonguldak, one worker loses his life
Miner Salif Zıvalı has lost his life after an unlicensed mine in Turkey’s Black Sea province of Zonguldak collapsed.
7 April 2021
BIMEKS WORKERS
‘Those who don’t give me my money live in luxury’
Not paid their wages and severance for years, the workers of Bimeks electronics retailer turn wherever their bosses go into a site of protest. “We are trying to exert pressure by targeting their identities known by the public,” says Celep from Umut-Sen union.
13 January 2021
Melisa Elçin Özçelikel
DİSK-AR EMPLOYMENT REPORT
Turkey's broad unemployment rate hits 27 percent as women affected much worse
During the pandemic, women's employment was affected much more than men's as the broad unemployment rate for women was 35.8 percent in October, the report says.
12 January 2021
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A chapter in labor history of Turkey: ‘No identity without memory’
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.”
28 September 2020
Selay Dalaklı
Report: Number of registered farmers in Turkey decreased by 102,000 in a year
The number of public employees increased by 62,000 while women's employment decreased in the same period, according to a report by the TEPAV.
4 September 2020
DİSK-AR report: How has Covid-19 affected workers?
While 36 percent of workers have had an income loss, 82 percent feel that they are in danger economically.
8 July 2020
First home-based workers' union recognized by Council of State decision
The court decision will open the way for all precarious workers to unionize, the Ev-Eksen union has stated.
6 July 2020
Turkey's Measures Against Poverty in Pandemic 'Inadequate Compared to Other Countries'
The Genel-İş union has released a comparative report of several countries' economic measures during the coronavirus pandemic.
13 May 2020
Worker Dismissed from Municipality Due to Same-Sex Relationship Wins Court Case
A garbage collector who was dismissed from his job at Kağıthane Municipality in İstanbul without compensation “on the ground of homosexual relationship” has won the lawsuit of reinstatement.
30 January 2019
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