After striking for 18 days, workers at Bekaert in Izmit, have achieved an 84% pay rise. The successful achievement is the result of strike action that started on 22 December last year, when 400 workers stood in front of the Bekaert factory demanding a fair wage increase to compensate the skyrocketing inflation. After a long strike with support from trade unions Bekaert agreed to grant its workers a pay rise of 84% on average for a duration of six months. In March this year, there will be another increase in line with the official six-month inflation rate plus 2%.
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