{"id":1525,"date":"2009-11-25T09:36:51","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T15:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2009-11-25T09:36:51","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T15:36:51","slug":"thousands-of-public-sector-workers-in-turkey-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/thousands-of-public-sector-workers-in-turkey-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of public sector workers in Turkey strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tens of thousands of public sector workers have walked off the job in Turkey to call for the right to strike.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/turkey-strike.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1526\" title=\" Turkey strike\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/turkey-strike-220x220.jpg\" alt=\" Turkey strike\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/turkey-strike-220x220.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/turkey-strike.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a>Transport, hospitals, postal services and schools were disrupted. Some trains are reported to have stopped halfway through their journeys.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey has nearly two million public sector workers. Though they can join unions, they are not allowed to strike.<\/p>\n<p>The leader of the Hak-Is union, Salim Uslu, called on the government to change labour laws.<\/p>\n<p>He said they should be brought into line with the recommendations of the International Labour Organization.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Uslu described the one-day walk-out was as a warning.<\/p>\n<p>The mass action shut down hospitals, prompting criticism and threats of disciplinary action from the health ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Striking workers staged marches, accompanied by left-wing activitists, in some cities. There were reports of some violence in Ankara, where police used tear gas after demonstrators hit them with sticks.<\/p>\n<p>Among other union demands are the right to collective bargaining and wage rises.<\/p>\n<p>Unions decided in favour of the strike, despite Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warning against it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tens of thousands of public sector workers have walked off the job in Turkey to call for the right to strike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,118,184,194,1165],"tags":[2395,2125,2396,2393,2392],"class_list":["post-1525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-hot","category-turkey-economy","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-life","tag-international-labour-organization","tag-prime-minister-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-public-sector","tag-salim-uslu","tag-the-leader-of-the-hak-is-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}