More than 350 agricultural workers, most of them women, employed at Queen Flowers in İzmir province, have been protesting the company over pressure to relinquish their union membership. Workers have been protesting against the Danish-owned company for the past 20 days. They claim that after joining the United Agricultural Workers Union (Tarım-Sen), affiliated with the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey (DİSK), they began to face pressure and workplace bullying. Furthermore, during salary negotiations the company offered zero wage increases for 2025 and even proposed a 27% cut from current wages. According to DİSK, member workers — especially union representatives — had their performance scores downgraded and were assigned to heavier and riskier tasks in terms of occupational health and safety.
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