Turkey

  • What Brown Does for Turkish Workers
    Labor Notes Staff
    Aug 20 2010 - 12:43pm

    Unlike our Teamster sisters and brothers here, workers for UPS in Turkey have no union. And over the past few months, workers seeking to organize have faced repression. To date more than 120 union members and workers sympathetic to TÜMTIS, a Turkish transport union, have been fired from UPS Turkey. Some have faced violence and intimidation from management.

  • Turks Strike Over Rising Shipyard Deaths

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    Turkish workers in Tuzla’s dangerous shipyards are protesting to save their lives. The Port, Shipyard, Ship Construction and Repair Workers Trade Union (Limter Is) called a one-day strike June 16 to protest the deaths of two shipyard workers on the job. Twenty-five workers have died in Tuzla in the past year in work-related accidents. Despite the high death toll, the government has only formed a commission to investigate safety standards and step up inspections of the shipyards.

    The union struck for 48 hours in February over the same issues and faced repression from police and shipyard owners. Police beat protesters and took 75 union leaders and others into custody, but could not break the strike.

    Expiration Date:
    Thu, 07/31/2008 - 8:59pm