How much is the collective bargaining raise for a public worker? New increase offer for public workers…

The process continues in the negotiations of the Framework Protocol for Public Collective Bargaining 2023, which concerns more than 700,000 workers from public institutions and organizations. 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.

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

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.

Today the second meeting of the collective agreement that covers 700,000 public sector workers was held. Vedat Bilgin, Minister of Labor and Social Security, and Ergün Atalay, President of Türk-İş met.

THE SECOND HIGH GOVERNMENT PROPOSAL ANNOUNCED

At the second meeting held for the 2023 Framework Protocol for Public Collective Labor Agreements, the government’s proposal for an increase was announced.

Türk-İş President Atalay announced that the new government offer for public workers is a base salary of 12,000 lira and a 40 percent increase for the first six months.

As a result of the first negotiations, it was announced that the government offered a 30 percent raise to public workers for the first 6 months, and the monthly base offer was 11,500 lira. Affirming that they transmitted to him that the offer did not comply with the demands, Atalay said: “We are not going to sign the figure that the worker does not consent to.”

After the second meeting, which lasted about 1 hour and was closed to the press, Türk-İş President Atalay and Hak-İş President Mahmut Arslan made statements about the meeting.

Atalay made the following statements in his statement:

“The proposal made by TÜHİS (Turkish Heavy Industry and Service Sector Public Employers Union) on behalf of the public employer last week was to increase the base salary to 11,500 lira and increase by 30 percent in the first six months.

It’s been almost two weeks. Today we met the public coordination committee in Türk-İş and we came here at the invitation of the Minister. Minister Çavuşoğlu stated that he did not consider the 11,500 lira provided by the employers’ union to be sufficient and that he had reduced it to 12,000 lira. He also claimed that he did not find the previous increase of 30 percent sufficient and increased it to 40 percent.

This is an important and beautiful event, but we are not in a position to make a decision at this time. At the point we have reached, the new offer is at the base salary level of 12 thousand lire and an increase of 40 percent for the first six months. It is not possible to come to the party, there is no chance, but at the end of the party we will come to a conclusion.”

‘WE WANT TO EXCEED 40 PERCENT’

Noting that almost half of the salaries of public workers are at the level of the base salary, Atalay said, “It is good that the base salary has increased from 11,500 lira to 12,000 lira, but this needs to be increased more. Increase the percentage of increase 30 to 40 is fine, but it is not enough for us. The problem of purchasing power in society continues. Our mission is to increase the purchasing power of the people we represent. Our effort is in this direction. I do not underestimate the offer that came today, but we want to pass 40 percent one by one,” he said.

‘We found the offer insufficient’

Hak-İş President Arslan stated that the new government proposal is an important step, saying:

“Despite this, we found this offer insufficient like Türk-İş and Hak-İş. We care about the attitude of the Minister. We wanted this proposal to be re-evaluated by our institutions and the Minister, as it did not meet the expectations of both our unions and our members. We will also inform our organizations. The expectations are high. I hope we deliver good news at the end of the holidays.” (AA, SPEAKER)