Türk Metal Union, one of the country’s largest unions, has unveiled a historic proposal ahead of the 2025-2027 Group Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) negotiations with the Metal Industrialists' Union of Turkey (MESS). The union demands an average 38.97% wage increase for the first six months. During an expanded delegates' council meeting in Ankara on 4 September 2025, the General President of the union presented the draft, which he described as the product of a "union democracy" process unprecedented in labour history. He emphasized that the draft was not merely a management decision but the result of a meticulous process involving surveys of all 140,722 members, studies by independent research firms, and delegates' council meetings.
Read on: in English…
For more information, please contact Paul de Beer or Oana Ciuca, De Burcht (Scientific Bureau for the Dutch Trade Union Movement) p.t.debeer@uva.nl or the Head of communications at the ETUI, Mehmet Koksal mkoksal@etui.org. For previous full issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit https://www.etui.org/Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter or consult the archive with all articles in our database at www.cbnarchive.eu.
You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org.