2nd SESSION IN TÜRK METAL-MESS NEGOTIATIONS COMPLETED!

Our union Türk Metal Metalworkers Union with Turkish Employers Association of Metal Industries (MESS) in the ongoing Collective Labor Agreement negotiations 2019 to 21 October 2019 Monday was continued with the second session held in Istanbul.

At the session held at the MESS Head Office, the discussion of the articles continued on the proposal submitted by our union to MESS.

Following the 14 articles adopted in the first session, in the second session today, 14 more articles were accepted and recorded in the same way as suggested by our union. Thus, the number of substances adopted in the first two sessions raise to 28.

Our union was represented at the meeting held in Istanbul with our Vice Presidents Uysal Altundağ, Halil Faki Erdal and our General Secretary Taliphan Kıymaz with a delegation of branch heads and Collective Bargaining Office officials. MESS attended the second session with General Secretary Özgür Barut and the delegation accompanying him. 

Negotiations on 4 November 2019 at 10.00 at the third session will continue in Istanbul.

Here are the articles adopted in the second session;

1. Article 26                   Times Counted from Daily Work
2. Article 27                   Late Arrival to work
3. Article 29                   Regulation of Excess Work
4. Article 33                   Other Paid Permits
5. Article 39                   Payment Method
6. Article 64                   Military Service
7. Article 65                   Reserve Military Service
8. Article 66                   Damage Compensation
9. Article 69                   Consumption Cooperative
10. Article 70                   Utilization of Products
11. Article 72                   Transfer of Workplace to Another Employer
12. Article 73                   Rest Places at workplace
13. Article 74                   Training and Learning of Workers
14. Additional Article 1    Participation