Negotiation of increases for public workers continues

In the negotiations to determine the salary increase of more than 700,000 public sector workers, the employer and worker agree on issues including the Christmas bonus, while they continue their negotiations on the base salary and percentage increase.

The process continues in the negotiations of the Framework Protocol of Collective Public Labor Agreements 2023, which involves more than 700,000 workers from public institutions and organizations, including highways, railways, special provincial administrations, sugar mills, and electricity production plants. , coal companies, the Ministry of Education, universities and hospitals.

Negotiations continue between the delegations of TÜRK-İŞ and HAK-İŞ, representing the workers’ section, and officials of the Turkish Union of Public Employers in the Heavy Industry and Services Sector (TÜHİS), representing the employer .

BASE SALARY BUSINESS

The parties, who agreed on the issues, including the Christmas bonus, continue to negotiate the base salary and the percentage increase. While the insistence of the workers to increase the monthly gross base salary to 15,000 lira continued, TÜHİS’s first offer was at the level of 11,500 lira.

Workers and employers will meet again this week, organized by TÜHİS, to discuss the remaining issues within the scope of the negotiations.

45 PERCENT APPLICATION FOR THE FIRST 6 MONTHS

At the meetings, the joint demands of TÜRK-İŞ and HAK-İŞ, representing the workers, include “increasing the monthly gross base salary to 15 thousand lira, and after this, a 15 percent social participation is added to all wages.”

After adding the increase in base salary and social participation, a 45 percent increase is requested for the first six months, and a 5 percent increase and the inflation difference for the second, third, and fourth six months each .

In addition, additional payments are requested from all public workers, including those from municipalities and special companies of the provincial administration.

ALSO RELATED TO OTHER CONTRACTS

On the other hand, as of August 1, the negotiations of the Collective Bargaining of the 7th Term will begin, which covers the years 2024-2025, in which the rate of increase in the salaries of approximately 3.5 million public servants will be determined. and 2.5 million retired public servants. .

In this sense, the 2023 Framework Protocol for Public Work Collective Agreements, which concerns public workers, is also important to determine the frameworks of the collective agreements to be signed in the private sector, especially the collective agreement of civil servants. public. (AA)