Our Principles for Collective Bargaining Process

OUR FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES CONCERNING THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AND COLLECTIVE LABOUR CONTRACTS

First priority of our Syndicate is to inform and consult workers at every stage of the collective bargaining process.

We participate in both consultation meetings and negotiations with employers together with our representatives and a small group of our members which are sample of the workers.

During the collective bargaining process, workers are regularly informed about the progress of collective bargaining negotiations through our representatives which are present at the related meeting with the employer before or after each meeting. It enables to inform those workers/our members about every stage of the ongoing collective bargaining process.

This information clearly states and marks which issues are discussed at the collective bargaining table, which stage they are at, what progress has been achieved and what problems are encountered.

Informing workers and consulting them are conducted through various methods and different communication channels such as meetings, newsletters, e-mails, surveys, workplace visits, face-to-face meetings, social media interactions and feedbacks.

For example; during the collective bargaining process carried out with the Ministry of Health in November and December of 2024, our union has received around 50,000 demands via 32,658 e-mails from our members working at the aforementioned public institution.

In November and December of 2024, during the collective bargaining process carried out with the Ministry of Family and Social Services, workers working in the aforementioned public institution sent 2,604 e-mails including 5,200 demands to our head office.

Subsequently, we hold meetings with our representatives (shop stewards) at the workplaces in order to prepare our collective labour contract drafts and proposals to be presented to employers.

Throughout the collective bargaining process, draft CLAs are revised in accordance with the feedback from our members.

Thanks to this transparent and participatory approach, workers are sure that their demands, expectations, priorities and interests are brought directly to the collective bargaining negotiation table.

 

In brief, our labour organisation demonstrates an accountable and transparent attitude throughout the entire collective bargaining process by clearly responding to all questions of workers and employers or their umbrella organisations such as TÜHİS, MİKSEN, YERELSEN and actively listening to their demands and expectations.

Eventually, all stages of the collective bargaining process are concluded when consensus be reached by vast majority of our members working in that workplace/enterprise, thus the collective labour contract draft text becomes ready to be signed. In this way, the collective bargaining process is managed and finalised in a participatory, democratic, inclusive and transparent manner.