Turquía - Anti-union discrimination (2013)

In April 2014, the company TÜVTÜRK dismissed eight union members at various vehicle inspection stations across Turkey for their organising campaign. Unions were able to sign collective agreements at certain plants of the company after successful organising campaigns despite the fact that the company continued to discriminate against trade unions.
In June 2014, members of the union Birlesik Metal-Is protested against union busting by advertising company M&T Reklam by holding several pickets. The company unlawfully dismissed 45 workers in total at its plants in Gebze and Duzce after the union conducted a successful organising campaign at both plants. Even though the union has been certified for collective bargaining by the Ministry of Labour, management chose to victimise workers instead of engaging in good faith bargaining.
In March 2014, the Turkish subsidiary of Crown Holdings, Crown Bevcan, dismissed four trade union leaders with false and groundless charges, as they had led union organising at the company plant located in Izmit. Along with consistent union busting and de-recognition in Turkey, Crown dismissed four workers – Haluk Efe, Mehmet Akbay, Mustafa Bayram and Ahmet Bal – who are members of the local union organising committee of the union Birlesik-Is. In the beginning of March the employer summoned the workers demanding them to write an explanatory note, called a defence document, to the accusations put forward by the management. The dismissed union leaders were accused of encouraging other workers not to work overtime along with disturbing the peace of the working environment, even though there recently was no overtime work announced inside the workplace. All four workers were kept outside the factory while management required that they take leave. After the announced period of leave came to an end, the management arbitrarily dismissed the workers.

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