The Turkish Government has issued a Cabinet Decree to postpone the metal industry strike launched by DİSK. The strike covers some 40 workplaces with 15,000 workers in Turkey’s metal industry.

WHSA released its annual report on occupational mortalities in Turkey. According to the report, at least 1,886 workers died on the job across Turkey, 54 were children.

Maltepe University Hospital fired 98 workers after they started a unionization drive to improve difficult working conditions that had made it impossible to survive in İstanbul. Stephan Martens wrote their struggle…

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DISK sent letters of condolence to French trade unions, in order to condemn attack against Charlie Hebdo.

DİSK, Charlie Hebdo dergisine yapılan saldırıyı kınamak için Fransız sendikalarına birer taziye mesajı gönderdi.

The report of Gezi Legal Monitoring Group aims to manifest the unlawful practices, human rights violations and totalitarian tendency of the regime from a legal perspective with regard to the concrete cases that have been faced for the last one and a half year period, beginning from the Gezi events.

Workers demand minimum wage be raise to TL 1,800. ($777) DİSK has called on the government to increase the national minimum wage ahead of a possible change in the base pay of Turkish workers.

International trade union representatives on a fact-finding mission to the Turkish-Syrian border found local authorities struggling to support Kurdish refugees fleeing the barbaric violence of the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria, and called for greater transparency on how Turkey has spent and distributed international aid.

Management of the University Hospital of Maltepe in Istanbul dismissed 98 workers, 6 December 2014. These workers have been dismissed for being a member of the health workers trade union of Dev Sağlık-İş of DISK. These workers have started a picket to demand re-instatement.

Mac Urata of ITF wrote his remarks about Global Unions’ fact finding missions in Diyarbakır & Suruç. He met refugees and workers from Shengal and Kobane, Iraq and Syria. It was not a charity but solidarity against man-made humanitarian crisis in the region.