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Yalçın's Intervention on TRT Haber and TVNET
30.07.21, Friday
Memur-Sen President Ali Yalçın was invited on TRT haber and TVNET TV sets to share his views regarding the collective bargaining process that will start on August 02. Expressing his awareness of the expectations of public sector workers, both active and retired, Yalçın stressed that the Collective Agreements, which affect more than 20 million people in total, should be seen by the government as an opportunity to rectify the situation.
Speaking on TRT News, Ali Yalçın said that the Memur-Sen confederation will sit at the negotiating table on August 2 for the negotiation of the Collective Agreements in the civil service, the objective of which will be to determine the evolution of the salaries and purchasing power of 6 million public employees, including 2 million pensioners. "As a reminder, we did not reach an agreement with the public employer during the previous collective negotiations for the years 2020-2021. Since then, 18 months have passed and public employees are facing unprecedented economic hardship. For this reason, instead of making proposals for each of the 4 semesters of the future two-year period, we decided to go to the bargaining table with a different logic. We have informed the government of our request for a total increase of 38%, broken down as follows 21% for the year 2022 and 17% for the year 2023. In addition, we are asking for a social quota of 3 points per year, i.e. 6 points for the next two years. We also asked for an improvement of 600 TL on salaries in order to make up for the losses related to the period of the previous two years," he said.
In this regard, we continue our struggle tirelessly to raise wages to levels above the current poverty line," he said.
Yalçın stressed that he disagreed with the idea that some segments of society were more affected by the pandemic than others. Furthermore, the claim that civil servants would be protected from inflation is completely wrong. 4 million civil servants and 2 million retirees, represents about 24 million people when we add the dependents of these civil servants. Therefore, this collective bargaining must be seen as an opportunity, a tool of social policy to relieve the tensions accumulated by civil servants in recent years," he concluded.