Vedat Bilgin, Minister of Labor and Social Security, met with the delegations of the Confederation of Turkish Trade Unions (Türk-İş) and the Confederation of Rights Trade Unions (Hak-İş) within the scope of the 2023 Public Collective Bargaining Framework Protocol Discussions at the ministry. How much will the salaries of public workers be, when will the collective bargaining be for the workers? Here, 700 thousand public worker raise talks are the latest situation.
The process continues in the 700 Public Collective Bargaining Agreement Framework Protocol negotiations, which concern more than 2023 thousand workers in public institutions and organizations, including Highways, Railways, special provincial administrations, sugar factories, electricity production plants, coal enterprises, the Ministry of National Education, universities and hospitals.
In the negotiations that will determine the increase in the wages of more than 700 thousand workers in the public sector, the employer and employee side continue their negotiations on financial issues, including the bonus.
BASE WAGE BARGAIN
In the meetings, the joint demands determined by TÜRK-İŞ and HAK-İŞ, representing the workers, include "increasing the monthly gross base wage to 15 thousand liras, and then adding a 15 percent welfare share to all wages".
After the base wage increase and welfare share are added, a 45 percent increase is requested for the first six months, and a 5 percent increase and inflation difference for the second, third and fourth six months each.
In addition to these, additional payments are requested to all public workers, including those in municipalities and special provincial administration companies.
WHEN IS THE COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT FOR PUBLIC WORKERS?
The process continues in the negotiations for the 700 Public Collective Bargaining Agreement Framework Protocol, which concerns more than 2023 thousand workers. The collective agreement proposal of TÜRK-İŞ and HAK-İŞ, which concerns the workers, was submitted to TÜHİS.
According to this; The salary increase and the collective agreement dates of the workers, which concern more than 700 thousand workers in the public sector, will be determined after the evaluation of the proposal by TÜHİS.