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'Inflation swallowed up retiree pensions in 2023'

CHP ANKARA MP SEMRA DİNÇER:

'Inflation swallowed up retiree pensions in 2023'

CHP Ankara Deputy Semra Dinçer, who prepared a report on how 2023 went for retirees, said, "Inflation swallowed up the retiree pension. Retirees have become unable to afford meat."

9 February 2024

Pensioners call for a combined joint union: 'We have lost our acquired rights'

Pensioners call for a combined joint union: 'We have lost our acquired rights'

Unions and platforms working for pensioner rights call on all retirees and their organizations to wage a struggle together under the roof of a combined joint union.

Retired miners protest in Turkey: ‘I avoid my children because I don’t have money’

Retired miners protest in Turkey: ‘I avoid my children because I don’t have money’

Retired miners protested in Manisa’s Soma: “My pension was higher than the minimum wage by 304 liras. It is now lower than the minimum wage by 600 liras. Should I believe in the justice or injustice of this government?”

10 January 2022

Turkey raises lowest pension by 66 percent

Turkey raises lowest pension by 66 percent

Public employees will get a pay rise of 30.5 percent, President Erdoğan has announced. Unions and the opposition say pay raises are not sufficient amid high inflation.

Parliament rejects bill to increase pensions to minimum wage level

Parliament rejects bill to increase pensions to minimum wage level

The pensions of 70 percent of the retirees were below the minimum wage in 2020.

22 December 2021

Workers Protested against Social Security Law

Workers Protested against Social Security Law

Following a call by trade unions and professional chambers, workers all around Turkey protested against the draft Law on Social Security and General Health Insurance. 5,000 demonstrated in Istanbul.

2 April 2008 Emine Özcan

Strikes Threatened Against Reform of Social Security Law

The Labour Platform announced yesterday that there would be a two-hour warning strike on 14 March to protest against the planned reform in social security and health insurance law.

11 March 2008 Erhan Üstündağ