21:31 09/3/2015 |
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The first hearing in the case on Soma mine disaster that claimed the lives of 301 miners in May 2014 has been set to take place at Bülent Çiğeroğlu Culture Centre Hall on 13 April.
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07:28 05/3/2015 |
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According to Worker and Health Occupational Safety Assembly, at least 81 workers died on the job across Turkey in the month of February.
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12:37 25/2/2015 |
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Police assaulted and detained a number of workers who occupied the administrative building of Maltepe University Medical Faculty Hospital in Istanbul this morning.
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14:01 24/2/2015 |
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One worker died after falling through an elevator shaft at a construction site in Istanbul, located next to the construction site of Torunlar Center, where 10 workers were killed in a workplace accident last September.
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21:36 09/2/2015 |
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A parliamentary commission on Health, Family and Social Works approved yesterday a draft law on new regulations regarding occupational health and security.
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12:26 29/1/2015 |
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Up to 15,000 metal workers have gone on strike today in 22 plants around Turkey to protest poor wages in the sector and demand a better collective bargaining agreement with employers in the industry.
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10:48 29/1/2015 |
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Up to 15,000 metal workers are expected to go on strike today around Turkey to protest poor wages in the sector and demand a better collective bargaining agreement with employers in the industry.
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18:46 26/1/2015 |
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DİSK (Confederation of Revolutionary Trade Unions), KESK (Public Workers Unions' Confederation), TMMOB (Turkey Union of Chambers of Engineers and Architects), and TTB (Turkish Medical Association) called for solidarity during their first hearing in the lawsuit that was opened against them after the police intervention in May Day.
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17:51 02/1/2015 |
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According to a report by Worker Health and Occupational Safety Assembly (İSİG), at least 1,886 workers died on the job across Turkey. 54 were children.
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11:00 19/12/2014 |
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Some 350 workers have begun a protest by locking themselves inside a mine in Zonguldak in reaction to the dismissal of their 60 colleagues.
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13:02 13/12/2014 |
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Tens of thousands of labourers are marching against 2015 budget towards Square Sihhiye in Ankara within the pioneering of KESK and DİSK.
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10:35 08/12/2014 |
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Hardly a day passes without a worker's death in Turkey where two miners have lost their lives today alone.
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11:48 06/12/2014 |
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The parliament approved the Safety and Health in Mines Convention, 1995 (No. 176), an agreement that Turkey was criticized for not approving for years.
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11:50 05/12/2014 |
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A parliamentary commission to investigate the workplace murder in Soma completed its duty with its chairman saying that “they were not founded to find culprits of the incident”.
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11:38 04/12/2014 |
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The bodies of the remaining 5 victims at the Ermenek coal mine were recovered overnight, ending 38 days of painstaking search efforts.
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16:15 02/12/2014 |
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At least 123 workers died on the job in the month of November. While most casualties were reported on the sectors of construction and agriculture, traffic accidents ranked as the most frequent causes of death.
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10:30 29/11/2014 |
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Ten people who died while trapped by an underground flood in the Ermenek mine did not drown, but rather died due to coal gas poisoning, autopsy reports have shown.
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10:02 20/11/2014 |
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An explosion has been reported in a factory in the Mediterranean city of Antalya.
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11:37 14/11/2014 |
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Kazova Workers, a group of textile workers who launched an occupation protest after being fired with no repartitions or deserved wages in early 2013 and obtained their own factory machines after months of struggle, have now formed their cooperative.
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11:18 11/11/2014 |
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Villagers from the western district of Soma planted new olive trees after a thermic power plant construction left thousands of trees cut. The event was supported by local chamber of agriculture engineers.
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