The situation here could well have panned out along the lines of typical Turkish industrial relations comprising an official union authorization combined with a legal appeal by company management challenging the legality of the union certification. However, for the international union federation, IndustriALL Global, the fact that 120 unionized employees, and for the most part female workers, were dismissed from a factory at Gebze (Turkey) that belonged to a subsidiary of the Yves Rocher cosmetics group there was more than enough reason to elevate the situation to the international level. With parties in Turkey agog, the next step is to turn to France.
“The toughest thing is to secure employee agreement to become union affiliates, but once the required majority has been achieved then Turkey’s legislation allows recourse to the administrative procedure that secures union certification,” Kemal Özkan IndustriALL Global deputy secretary general explained.
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