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Geneva: Global Union Federations call on Turkish Labour Minister to respect trade union rights

... charges against 111 union leaders arising from the Tekel action, limitations on public sector workers right to strike, alarming ...

News story - burcu - 12/06/2012 - 15:35 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Turkey criminalizes union action with mass indictments of union leaders - Act Now! to defend trade union rights

... following the privatization of the state tobacco monopoly TEKEL. Following the sale of the TEKEL tobacco manufacturing activities to BAT in February 2008, the state ...

Urgent action - burcu - 19/05/2011 - 11:30 - 0 comments - 2 attachments

Major Protest of Former Turkish Tobacco Monopoly Workers in Ankara

... at the end of January 2010. Following the sale of the TEKEL (Turkish tobacco and alcohol monopoly) tobacco manufacturing activities ... Tekgida-Is, which represents the workforce at TEKEL, continually sought negotiations with the government over the future of ...

Urgent action - jac - 17/12/2009 - 17:00 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

May Day 2010 - Global Solidarity with Turkish Trade Unionists

... from the former Turkish state-run tobacco monopoly, Tekel, staged a protest and hunger strike against an article of Turkish that ...

News story - peter - 01/05/2010 - 16:55 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

TEKEL workers continue their protest for 50 days and counting….

TEKEL - former state-owned tobacco company - workers from all over Turkey ... dating from the late 1990's when plans to privatise TEKEL were first formulated. Now they are in Ankara for the final ... and leading the fight to abolish this statute. The TEKEL workers have received marvellous support from a public that is clearly ...

News story - jac - 02/02/2010 - 17:22 - 0 comments - 8 attachments

TEKEL Workers Continue Their Protest in Ankara

The protest of TEKEL workers against the government's sudden and arbitrary decision to shut ...

Urgent action - jac - 22/01/2010 - 18:25 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

UPDATE on TEKEL Workers Protest in Ankara

... . Despite police attempts to prevent further busloads of TEKEL workers from entering the city, their numbers are steadily increasing. ...

Urgent action - jac - 22/12/2009 - 13:37 - 0 comments - 6 attachments

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