18.06.2025 14:45
The Turkish Confederation of Trade Unions (Türk-İş), which found the Ministry of Labor's proposal to increase public workers' wages by 16% for the first 6 months of the first year and 8% for the second 6 months insufficient, marched to the Ministry of Treasury and Finance. Türk-İş organized a protest demonstration by leaving a coffin in front of the ministry, with President Ergün Atalay stating, "By the end of June, some of our unions may have to decide to go on strike."
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The Confederation of Turkish Trade Unions (TÜRK-İŞ) marched from Anıtpark to the Ministry of Treasury and Finance to express their demands regarding the framework protocol of collective bargaining agreements that concern 600,000 workers and millions of their relatives.
ATALAY GAVE A DATE FOR THE STRIKE
TÜRK-İŞ General President Ergün Atalay spoke in front of the Ministry of Treasury and Finance. Emphasizing that public workers no longer have the economic power to endure, Ergün Atalay stated that some unions affiliated with TÜRK-İŞ are in a position to decide on a strike.
"YOU ARE IN EVERY FIELD OF THE COUNTRY, 35 THOUSAND LIRA SALARY"
Atalay, who expressed that public workers are forced to work with a salary slightly above the minimum wage in the area where workers gathered with banners saying "Workers are in need of dry onions", "Shinsek, take your hand off my bread", "Inflation is the cause, we are not" stated that the decision to strike is a necessity. Stating that the average salary of public workers remains at 35 thousand lira, Atalay said, "You will build submarines, you will make planes, you are in communication, you are in energy. You are in every field of the country, 35,000 lira salary."
"WE WILL STAY HERE TONIGHT"
Giving a date for the strike, which has become a necessity, Atalay said: "We are negotiating and fighting here at the table. We said that our friends are coming. Our friends will be here tomorrow. We will not leave today. Union presidents, titled managers, we will stay here tonight. Tomorrow, my friends will explain the action plan for the upcoming week in the Türk-İş Congress hall.
Subsequently, by the end of June, some of our unions will have to decide on a strike related to the strike. Who is there? There is Railway Workers' Union. There is Energy, there are Highways, there are Miners, there is Machinery Chemistry. We have to decide on a strike with these brothers by the beginning of July at the latest. All of our unions here are obliged to decide on a strike within 15 days. Dear friends, the worker in the public sector receives a salary just above the minimum wage. We express this every day everywhere. The average salary has become 35,000 lira. You will build submarines, you will make planes, you are in communication, you are in energy. You are in every field of the country, 35,000 lira salary. It is a shame, it is a sin, it is a pity."
THE LATEST STATUS OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS
TÜRK-İŞ submitted a proposal to the Ministry of Labor and Social Security on February 27 as the Public Sector Collective Bargaining Coordination Board established within the confederation before the collective bargaining process, and the ministry responded to the proposal on June 13.
In the counter-proposal, the initial wage offer included a 16% raise for the first 6 months of the first year and an 8% raise for the second 6 months for public workers' salaries. TÜRK-İŞ stated that this proposal does not meet the expectations of public workers and that public workers are being ignored, indicating that it has caused disappointment.
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