Towards the end in the contract of increase of the public worker

The Framework Protocol of the Collective Agreement for Public Work, which will determine the economic and social rights of more than 700,000 public sector workers, is expected to be signed before May 1, Labor and Solidarity Day.

The process in the negotiations of the Framework Protocol of the Public Collective Agreement 2023, which involves more than 700,000 workers who work in public institutions and organizations, including highways, railways, special provincial administrations, sugar mills, power generation plants, ministries of National Education and National Defense, hospitals and universities continues.

A certain stage has been reached in the meetings, in which Türk-İş and Hak-İş represented the working class, and the Turkish Heavy Industry and Service Sector Public Employers Union (TÜHİS) the public employer. Negotiations intensified with the public employer’s initial proposal to raise the base salary to 11,500 lira and a 30 percent increase in the first six months of 2023, increase the base salary to 12,000 lira and a 40 percent increase in the first six months.

While the workers’ side kept insisting on raising the monthly gross base salary to 15,000 lira, then adding 15 percent social participation to all salaries, and then increasing it to 45 percent for the first six months, they began to wait. the new government proposal.

In this context, while it is known that the government continues with the preparations for a new proposal, it is expected that the talks will advance during the week and the contract will be signed before May 1, Labor and Solidarity Day.

WORKERS SECTION THE OFFER RESULTED IMPOSSIBLE

Türk-İş President Ergün Atalay stated that Labor and Social Security Minister Vedat Bilgin intervened after negotiations were blocked over TÜHİS’s proposal to increase the base salary to 11,500 lira and an increase in the 30 percent for the first six months. , and said:

“Mr. Minister, before the holidays, you met with the Türk-İş and Hak-İş delegations and informed us that the new government proposal is to increase the base salary by 12,000 lira and increase it by 40 percent for the first six months. We, as the working class, find this offer insufficient. At this point, we ask the government to make a new offer that satisfies the conditions of the day, the purchasing power of the workers and our demands”.

VERY INTERESTED IN 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)