Ankara The bias runs deep. When an organizer hears the word “chamber” the immediate assumption is that one is talking about a business apologist group of some kind. In Turkey a chamber is one of the professional associations created to get around unions but to keep the engineers, doctors, dentists, and others on program. Originally the …
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Unions in Turkey
Ankara Not easy figuring out the way unions are put together in Turkey, but after several meetings, it seems possible to sketch out the basic process. We talked an organizer for the printing and packaging union at some length, then met with the executive committee for a unionized and recently formed cooperative printing operations, …
Government versus the State?
Ankara Yildirim Koc, a veteran of 30 years in the labor movement, 3 years in a Turkish prison after the ’80 coup for his trouble, and currently an economist, writer, and teacher as well, opened our first Organizers’ Forum (www.organizersforum.org) session with a thorough view of the history of labor over the last 100 years. His …