Turquía - Government interferes in strike (2013)

In June 2014, the government issued a decree to suspend a strike in the glass industry for 60 days on the grounds that it posed a risk to “public health and national security”. The union Kristal-Is launched a strike at ten factories of the company Sisecam on 20 June 2014. The decree is based on article 63 of the legislative act no. 6356, the Law on Trade Unions and Collective Agreements. The Turkish government uses the regressive law on a routine basis to stifle workers from exercising their right to strike. This was the ninth major strike stifled in this way by the government since the year 2000. The government has never indicated a reason why any of the suspended glassworker strikes would be harmful to public health and national security.