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 […]

“Even in the times of dictators like Hitler or Mussolini, 1 May was a public holiday. We cannot accept that it is still not a holiday or celebrated in Turkey, […]

DİSK chair Süleyman Çelebi has reacted to the recent declaration by the State Minister responsible for the Treasury, Mehmet Şimşek, who dismissed any effect of the global crisis in Turkey. […]

The workers of the Turkish Red Crescent Blood Centre joined Dev-Sağlık İş, (UNION of Progressive Health Workers) an affiliate of DİSK, to get better working and living conditions. There is […]