There were many cases of employers dismissing workers simply because of their UNION membership, notably in the oil, car, engineering, textile and leather industries. There were also several incidents of […]

26 June 2012: The ITUC has strongly condemned the full-scale attacks against Turkey’s trade UNIONs carried out by the authorities yesterday. In the early hours of Monday 25 June, UNION […]

Today has started  together with news about imprisonments and police raids. In the early hours of the day, the police raided into offices of KESK and houses of trade UNIONists.71 […]

EVALUATION OF DISK ON THE COLLECTIVE LABOUR RELATIONS LAW PRESENTED TO THE PARLIAMENT In the pretext of the draft law the following expressions take place: “… it became inevitable to […]

Weak and poorly-enforced labour laws, coupled with courts which are strongly biased in favour of employers, leave the country’s workforce without protection from discrimination and largely unable to bargain collectively […]

I congratulate you on this congress and the debates that you will have in the coming days. I know that this is a diffucult time for workers right throughout the […]

Sector-based statistics regarding the number of trade UNION members is expected to reveal a lower number of organized workers than previously recorded. This may cause many trade UNIONs to lose […]

We write this letter on behalf of global trade UNION organizations representing hundreds of millions of workers throughout the world, including Turkish trade UNIONs belonging to different national centres. Trade […]

Members of the Dev Sağlık-İş socialist trade UNION were taken into custody and released later on when they tried to forward their request for a raise of the minimum wage. […]

Emphasising their long-held belief that trade UNION rights are human rights, Amnesty International are working with Turkish UNIONs to demand that trade UNION laws are brought into line with ILO […]