The draft law which Ministry of Labour and Social Security sent to workers’ and employers’ confederations in October, involves provisions which will block collective bargaining system and make workers UNIONs […]

Police have raided the properties of UNION of Transportation (Nakliyat-İş) in Istanbul, Kocaeli and Konya. 10 UNIONists including the president Ali Rıza Küçükosmanoğlu have been taken into custody. It’s rumored […]

Mr Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Prime Minister  9 December 2009   Prime Minister,   The International Trade UNION Confederation (ITUC), which represents over 175 million workers through its 311 affiliated organizations […]

Turkey: 22 Public Sector UNION Members and Leaders Freed After Six Months of Unlawful Detention   On Thursday 19 and Friday 20 November, in Izmir, Turkey, the ITUC attended, together […]

    Chief Public Prosecutor in İzmir has launched an investigation about large number of members and executives, including the members of the center executive boards of KESK and EĞİTİM-SEN. Investigation have […]

Last week, a Global UNIONs delegation was in Pittsburg for the G-20 summit. We contrasted the extraordinary measures taken to shore up banks with the growing threats to workers. In […]

“The fairy tale is over” was one of the messages from the business chambers and health UNIONs for the AKP’s health policies in a protest on Sunday. They demanded to […]

  Responding to the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank in Istanbul on 6-7 October, Turkish trade UNIONs organized a manifestation in Taksim Square, in […]

There is no progress to report regarding transposition of the acquis on labour law. Thelimited scope of the Labour Law and transposition of a number of directives remain to be […]

  From the speech made by Suleyman Celebi while leaving the hospital on 13th of October 2009 who has shot on 5th Of October I am released from the hospital […]