“We Want Gangs, not Children, in Court on 23 April” The youth UNION Genç-Sen pointed out that there are 2,433 children currently in prison. Nebi Altaylar Eskişehir – Eskişehir Student […]

OUR ASSESMENT ON NOT REALIZING THE AMMENDMENTS IN THE LAW ON TRADE UNIONS NO. 2821 AND THE LAW ON COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS NO.2822   The efforts that are going for […]

Trade UNIONist Okcan says that workers have not and will not apply to Istanbul’s governor for permission to gather in Taksim Square on Labour Day. DİSK has not applied for […]

ICEM, Turkish UNIONs Demand May Day Holiday; Want Celebrations at Historical Taksim Square In 11 days, trade UNIONs in the free world will celebrate May Day R11; the globally-recognised tribute to […]

Nearly 600 people have been arrested in Istanbul as police launched a dramatic clampdown on left-wing demonstrators trying to hold a May Day rally. Officers fired tear gas and used […]

Workers cannot celebrate May 1 in Taksim Square, but it is open to police. The square was closed to traffic yesterday for the celebrations at the anniversary of the police […]

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has ordered the Minister of Employment and Social Security, Faruk Çelik, to make May Day a public holiday. However, no mention has been made as […]

In Ankara last Thursday, Minister of Labor and Social Security Faruk Çelik had a meeting with labor UNION representatives on the government’s attempt to declare May Day a public holiday. […]

Our preparation for a peaceful May Day demonstration in İstanbul, Taksim Square, is going on. Goverment made a step backward and now they are planing to announce 1st of May […]

The Turkish government is readying to declare May 1, or May Day, a public holiday, meeting decades-old expectations of workers and labor UNIONs.  “We have started the legal proceduret,” Labor […]