Four days before the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund officials meet with the Turkish Government, Global UNIONs met with Turkey’s Minster for Labour, and lent their support to […]

IMF & WB PROTESTS OF UNIONS FACED BY EXTREME POLICE VIOLENCE    ITUC & ETUC affiliates DİSK and KESK gathered in Taksim Square in İstanbul with the support of several […]

John Monks, ETUC General Secretary declared: ‘It is a blow for the European trade UNIONs to hear that an unknown person got into the DISK President’s office and fired at […]

The Committee took note of the statement made by the Government representative and the debate that followed. The Committee also noted that a high level ILO mission visited the country […]

According to the data received from Turk-İş 40 thousand 775 UNIONist workers were laid off in 10 months period between October 2008 and July 2009 by the reason of “economic […]

The Confederation of Trade UNIONs of Public Employees (KESK) has pointed out that meetings with the government in previous years did not lead to satisfying results. Sami Evren, president of […]

The International Trade UNION Confederation (ITUC) and the European Trade UNION Confederation (ETUC) wrote a joint letter to the Turkish Prime Minister last week to protest at the constant harrassment, […]

Years have passed since the September 12, 1980 military coup. Today, the military regime of that time is being remembered for its `disciplining` the society in Turkey through blood shed […]

The ICEM lodged strong protest a week ago, demanding Turkey President Abdullah Gül veto a bill giving “Private Labour Offices” broad rights to place temporary workers in enterprises. On 9 […]

Public employees this morning left off work for an hour to draw attention to the disagreements on their wage increases. Following disagreements about the collective labour agreements of public employees, […]