Latest State of Public Workers Collective Bargaining: How Much Will Public Workers Get Paid?

Negotiations continue that will determine the salary of hundreds of thousands of workers in public institutions and organizations, including Highways, Railways, special provincial administrations, sugar mills, power generation plants, coal companies, the Ministry of National Education, universities and hospitals.

WHAT IS THE LAST STATUS OF THE COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT OF PUBLIC WORKERS?

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 15,000 lira and then adding a 15 percent social share to all salaries.”

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 to these, 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)