Turkish metalworkers rally against precarious work
On 28 November 2010 Birlesik Metal-Is is organising a rally in the industrial city of Gebze, Turkey to protest against the flexible and precarious working conditions imposed by the collective agreement signed between Turk Metal and Metal Product Industrialists’ Association (MESS).
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This agreement is negotiated every 2 years between metal workers’ unions and MESS and concerns approximately 80 000 metal workers with much broader real effect.
Birlesik Metal-Is is rejecting the changes stated in the collective agreement, which introduce and legalize more flexible working conditions, particularly in the areas of severance pay, annual holiday leaves, daily and weekly working time, compensation of overtime work, social benefits, etc.
The EMF supports our Turkish colleagues in their struggle against the decrease of their rights and deterioration of working conditions.
We stand in solidarity with our Turkish colleagues marching in the rally on 28 November!
EMF Campaign against precarious work.
For more information please contact Mina Vukojicic, EMF Policy Adviser
No to Precarious and Irregular Work
In the first demonstration against labor law reform, Birlesik Metal Is members oppose the employers’ association proposal to peg the national agreement to labor law changes that flexibilize employment and working conditions.
Gebze, Turkey. On November 28, some 8000 workers from metal sector union Birlesik Metal Is, transport sector union Nakliyat Is and private health care workers’ union Dev Saglik Is took to the streets of Gebze in a march and demonstration against labor law reform under the AKP government’s “New Employment Strategy.
