Union Rights, Türkiye

EPSU and PSI are backing a Labourstart campaign in support of the workers sacked by the Maltepe hospital in Istanbul. The workers had jointed a union and were campaiging for improvements in pay and conditions. The hospital sacked nearly 100 workers some of whom had been employed at the hospital for over 10 years. EPSU has written to the hospital management and the PSI general secretary Rosa Pavanelli visited the workers who have been carrying on their protest since early December. Read more here And at PSI And sign the online petition at Labourstart

(September 2016) EPSU has written to the major of the Aviclar local authority in Istanbul calling on him to reinstate 43 workers who were sacked earlier this year without good reason. The workers have been campaigning for reinstatement for over four months with support from the local community and at national level from their union Belediye-Is. EPSU has also called on the mayor to negotiate with the trade union and the local worker representatives (see letter).Update: The union has reached an agreement with the city council that will result in the reinstatement of dismissed workers (7 October