The minimum wage hike for 2012, announced yesterday, has failed to fullfil the expectations of trade UNIONs. The 12.4 percent hike is above the inflation rate, the government discusses. However […]

First trial of 25 Çukurova University Balcalı Hospital subcontracter workers  who are allegedly charged with “conspiracy in tender” with 27 years of prison sentence, will be on 16th December 2011.  […]

6 members of DİSK/Genel-İş are under arrest since 27th November 2011. Cafer Konca, one of the arrestees, is a Board member of Genel-İş and the President of İzmir Branch No:3 […]

The ITUC has joined Education International (EI) in its protest over the sentencing of 25 Turkish trade UNIONists to more than 6 years in prison under false “anti-terrorist” charges this […]

Upon the call of trade UNIONs DİSK and KESK, the Medical Chamber and the chamber of architects and engineers, people in 40 provinces demonstrated against mass arrests. Only in Istanbul, […]

14.November.2011, at 2pm., Çağlayan Palace of Justice, ISTANBUL WE DEFEND THE VALUES OF THE UNIVERSITY, SOCIAL RESPONSABILITY OF UNIVERSITY SCHOLARS, ACADEMIC AUTONOMY AND SOLIDARITY AMONG LABORING PEOPLE! CALL FOR SOLIDARITY […]

The 10th Congress Tümka-İş, the All Paper and Cellulose Industry Workers’ UNION, was held on 15-16 October and it paid tribute to Kemal Yilmaz, the president of Tümka-İş who retired […]

The weekly e-bulletin of the Istanbul Health and Safety (HESA) Labor Watch, FIRE TOWER, reporting mainly about the tragic consequences of the earthquake in the southeast of Turkey, the province of VAN. […]

The eastern city of Van was hit by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake on Sunday, 23 October. Guessingly more than 200 people died and more than a thousand people were injured […]

The government is making statements to national and international level, as there is a consensus about trade UNIONs laws among social partners. However the draft text send to government by […]