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Constitutional Court rules union rights violated by lengthy legal challenges

Constitutional Court rules union rights violated by lengthy legal challenges

The high court acknowledged that the legal framework allows employers to undermine workers' union rights by filing legal challenges that can drag on for years.

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.

Worker Gökçe Damar: I struggle for my daughter

RESISTING WOMEN WORKERS TELL

Worker Gökçe Damar: I struggle for my daughter

Trying to make her voice heard with slogans and folk dances in front of the factory from 7 in the morning to 5 in the evening, Damar says, “Joining a labor union is not a crime; we are struggling for our union rights here. Our request is reinstatement".

16 March 2022 Evrim Kepenek

'Women resist not only for labor rights or wage increases, but for survival as well'

FEMINISTS VISIT FARPLAS WORKERS

'Women resist not only for labor rights or wage increases, but for survival as well'

Feminists have visited the workers protesting for their rights at Farplas factory in Turkey's western province of Kocaeli. They have stressed that women have been resisting not only for union rights or wage increases for their survival as well.

23 February 2022

Protesting delivery workers reiterate demand for pay rise, complain about mobbing

PROTESTING FOR 15 DAYS

Protesting delivery workers reiterate demand for pay rise, complain about mobbing

The delivery workers of YemekSepeti, the largest online food delivery company of Turkey, gathered in front of the company’s central office in İstanbul, announcing that they are subjected to mobbing for joining the protests.

15 February 2022

‘We will get our due’: Dismissed workers protest in front of business association

‘We will get our due’: Dismissed workers protest in front of business association

The workers of Migros supermarket chains burned the “Building the Future” report of the Turkish Industry and Business Association in protest: “What is allotted to us is a system of slavery. The dismissal of 257 workers in the dead of winter…”

15 February 2022

‘Does Ministry of Labor make any attempts to learn from workers what they want?’

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

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

Workers detained at Farplas factory released

Workers detained at Farplas factory released

Giving their statements at the Gebze Security Directorate, 108 people, including 106 Farplas factory workers and union representatives and 2 DGD-SEN union executives who were there in support, have been released from detention.

31 January 2022

Dismissed workers file a criminal complaint against former employers

Dismissed workers file a criminal complaint against former employers

Dismissed from the Uğur Textile factory in Urfa, 87 workers allege that their names have been given to the other factories in the province and they are unable to find a job anywhere for this reason.

18 January 2022

BBC Turkish goes on strike on January 14

BBC Turkish goes on strike on January 14

As the collective bargaining between the BBC Turkish and the Journalists’ Union of Turkey (TGS) has ended in a deadlock, the journalists will go on strike on January 14. The decision was announced in early December 2021.

13 January 2022

State Council halts the ‘1 percent’ requirement for civil servants’ bonuses

UNION RIGHTS

State Council halts the ‘1 percent’ requirement for civil servants’ bonuses

Civil servants would be paid 400 lira as a bonus on the condition that their unions had at least 1 percent membership. The Council of State has halted the execution of the related article of the collective labor agreement.

22 December 2021 Hikmet Adal

BBC Turkish to go on strike

BBC Turkish to go on strike

As the collective bargaining between the Journalists’ Union of Turkey (TGS) and the İstanbul office of the BBC has ended in a deadlock, a decision of strike has been taken. The TGS has hung the decision of strike on the office door of the BBC Turkish.

7 December 2021

Cumhuriyet newspaper to reinstate 8 dismissed employees

'FOCUS ON WORK IS A PRECONDITION'

Cumhuriyet newspaper to reinstate 8 dismissed employees

The administration of daily Cumhuriyet has announced that “the decision to cancel the labor contracts of eight employees has been halted.”

6 December 2021

Supporting fired journalists, Küçükkaya removed from office as Cumhuriyet chief editor

Supporting fired journalists, Küçükkaya removed from office as Cumhuriyet chief editor

Aykut Küçükkaya has been removed from office as the Editor-in-Chief of Cumhuriyet newspaper after he expressed support in a protest for eight employees, all members of a union, following their dismissal.

3 December 2021

'It is unacceptable': Union, journalists protest dismissals from daily Cumhuriyet

'It is unacceptable': Union, journalists protest dismissals from daily Cumhuriyet

Ahead of the protest to be held in front of Cumhuriyet’s central office, the newspaper administration called the police; at least 4 police vehicles came in front of the building. The union has called on the ones responsible for recent dismissals to resign.

30 November 2021

Court reinstates 7 workers dismissed for unionizing: Company to pay damages

Court reinstates 7 workers dismissed for unionizing: Company to pay damages

In three separate court cases, the İstanbul 33rd Labor Court has ruled that seven workers shall be reinstated in their jobs at the Yurtiçi Kargo courier company and the company shall pay damages.

29 November 2021

Workers lock themselves in factory: 120 workers resist

Workers lock themselves in factory: 120 workers resist

After nine workers who became members of a labor union were dismissed from the Mitsuba factory in Kocaeli, 120 workers have locked themselves in the factory for their union rights.

12 October 2021

AFP unions in France express solidarity with colleagues preparing to strike in Turkey

AFP unions in France express solidarity with colleagues preparing to strike in Turkey

As the collective bargaining between the Journalists’ Union of Turkey and the Agence France-Presse (AFP) Turkey office has ended in a deadlock, a decision of strike has been taken. The AFP unions in France have released a statement about the issue.

15 September 2021

Worker wins the legal struggle 4 years after her dismissal

PRESSURE, MOBBING, HARASSMENT

Worker wins the legal struggle 4 years after her dismissal

Having protested in front of the Yazaki Factory in Bursa for 43 days after being dismissed from her job “due to her low performance” in June 2017, Dilek Gültekin has won her lawsuit for damages and reinstatement.

13 August 2021 Hikmet Adal

Collective bargaining cannot begin at Cumhuriyet newspaper

Collective bargaining cannot begin at Cumhuriyet newspaper

Shortly after Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Aykut Küçükkaya resigned amid “pressures to force the editorial staff to resign from the TGS”, the union has announced that the newspaper refused to start the collective bargaining.

Police intervention against Migros workers on the 100th day of their protest

Police intervention against Migros workers on the 100th day of their protest

Dismissed with ‘Code 29’ after joining a labor union, the workers of Migros supermarket chain have been once again taken into custody in front of the house of their employer Tuncay Özilhan on the 100th day of their protest.

Put on unpaid leave, workers back to work after protests

Put on unpaid leave, workers back to work after protests

Put on unpaid leave by a small home appliance factory in İstanbul, six workers have returned to work. Workers have announced that the Ministry sent an inspector to the factory and all their receivables since the first day of the leave have been paid.

22 December 2020

Union secures majority in factory, boss dismisses 80 workers

Union secures majority in factory, boss dismisses 80 workers

More than 80 workers have been dismissed from the Ekmekçioğulları Metal Factory in Çorum province on the day when the United Metal Workers’ Union was granted the right to represent workers by the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Services.

10 December 2020 Hikmet Adal

Constitutional Court: Union activity is a fundamental right

Constitutional Court: Union activity is a fundamental right

Concluding the application of 19 union members convicted of “membership of a terrorist organization,” Constitutional Court has noted that their union activities are their basic right and no connection has been found between these activities and the organization.

21 July 2020 Ayça Söylemez

ITUC: Turkey among the worst 10 countries for workers

2020 GLOBAL RIGHTS INDEX

ITUC: Turkey among the worst 10 countries for workers

"Turkey remained one of the most hostile countries in the world for trade unionists," says the ITUC report.

‘Halting Work Upon Union’s Call Not Within the Scope of Union Rights’

CONSTITUTIONAL COURT

‘Halting Work Upon Union’s Call Not Within the Scope of Union Rights’

Evaluating the disciplinary punishment given to a teacher for halting work upon her union's call, Constitutional Court has found the application inadmissible as “the aim of the protest was not within the union’s core area of activity and had political purposes.”

3 January 2020 Ayça Söylemez

Constitutional Court Acknowledges Violation of Union Rights of Workers Laid Off Due To Union Activities

Constitutional Court Acknowledges Violation of Union Rights of Workers Laid Off Due To Union Activities

Ruling on the applications of Pınar and Bilge, who had been laid off for participating in trade union activities, the Constitutional Court has decided in favor of the applicants and recognized that their trade union rights were violated.

15 November 2017 Ayça Söylemez