Increase in the Collective Agreement for public workers is clear! How much will the increase be for public workers?

The long-awaited day has come for the 2023 Public Sector Collective Bargaining Agreement, which determines the financial and social rights of public workers between 2023 and 2025, between the government and Türk-İş and Hak İş. Recently, AKP Chairman and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke at the Istanbul Grand Gathering held at the Atatürk Airport Nation Garden. “We will announce the rate increase for public workers on Tuesday,” Erdogan said.

WHEN WILL THE INCREASE IN THE RATE OF THE COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT FOR PUBLIC WORKERS BE ANNOUNCED?

AKP President and Chairman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke at the Istanbul Grand Gathering held at Atatürk Airport’s Nation Garden. “We will announce the rate increase for public workers on Tuesday,” Erdogan said.

HOW MUCH IS THE LAST OFFER FOR PUBLIC WORKERS?

Türk-İş President Ergün Atalay stated that the public expects a number from the talks; However, he said that he was not in a position to give a figure and said, “Our wish was to say the numbers given today. More recently, the base salary was 12,000 lire and there was an increase of 40 percent. Other than that number, all unions have specific workplace issues. There is labor charge, service charge, night work, shifts. Today we solve some of them; But as for the figure, they said that most likely both the Minister and the employers’ union will bring us a figure on Tuesday of next week.”

“THAT THE GOVERNMENT ACCEPT OFFERS FROM WORKERS”

Members of the Eskişehir branch of the Turkish union Harb-İş want the negotiations between the government and Türk-İş, Hak İş to be resolved as soon as possible on the Public Sector Collective Bargaining Agreement for the period 2023, which determines the financial rights and social benefits of public workers in 2023-2025.

He said that the inflation rate has exceeded 100 percent and that there have been increases of up to 300 percent in basic consumer goods and services in the last year, and in this environment, the salary and social rights increases that the Public Collective Bargaining Framework Agreement Protocol is upside down with non-salary provisions Emphasizing that there should be no collective bargaining agreement protocol, branch president Hasan Atak said: “Once again, it needs to be said that ; The protocol to be carried out must be carried out as soon as possible, considering the general economic data, especially the rates of increase in wages and salaries, inflation and currency increases, the proposals of the workers must be accepted without end. Türk İş, our representative at the table, should focus on protecting and improving the income of public sector workers. Realizing the expectations and objectives of economic management is the task of the government, not ours. The proposal that the government has put on the table is far from covering even half of the erosion of wages, especially in the last year. A low salary increase clearly means an unfair transfer of resources from workers’ income to the general budget.

Saying that unionists should know how to say ‘enough’ to this situation, which they say is a diversionary tactic by putting their hats in front of them, Atak said: “What needs to be done on behalf of the workers is clear. . . It is to walk the path together with all mass democratic organizations, class organizations and professional organizations to change the existing system that does not consent to its fate and renounce workers’ rights. From here, our call to the Government is to put an end to the delays applied by the Public Framework Protocol, to end this middle game, and to accept the offers of the workers”, he said.