Our Policy

WE ARE COMMITTED TO THE CONSTITUTION…

As a democratic mass organization, Turkish Metal Workers Union is attached to the provisions of the Constitution.

ALL METAL WORKERS…

Turkish Metal Workers Union has committed itself to unionize all the workers working in the metal industry.

NO SURRENDER…

Turkish Metal Workers Union, avoids any possible mistakes, deceptions and resignation, makes compromise and dialogue dominant in trade union operation.

GOOD CONTRACT… GOOD RIGHT…

Turkish Metal Workers Union adopts advocates and protects collective bargaining agreements that increase the living standards of it’s’ members, and applies and enforces them as its main target.

WE ARE A FAMILY…

Turkish Metal Workers Union invests in social, cultural and sporting purposes that will transform its members into healthy, conscious, cultivated and educated individuals as well as their spouses and their children.

MEMBER FEES RETURN TO MEMBER

Turkish Metal Workers Union accepts the affiliation fees received as a social and cultural service to be returned to its members, to their spouses and their children.

PARTICIPATORY, SHARING AND TRANSPARENT…

Turkish Metalworkers Union conducts its union structure, understanding and functioning by protecting and establishing the boards of democracy, while also respecting the basic principles such as participation, sharing and transparency.

A QUALITY LIFE…

Turkish Metal Workers Union provides its members with an efficient and quality production approach, healthy and safe working conditions and a wage structure that will not fall below the standards of the country.

ORGANIZING…

Turkish Metalworkers Union struggles within the framework of constitutional and legal rules in order to remove the barriers to unionizing activities in all sectors, not only in the metal sector.

TACKLING THE PROBLEMS…

Turkish Metal Workers Union deals with social and economic problems such as wage inequality, income imbalance, tax inequality, informal economy, lay-offs, unemployment and inflation.

INDEPENDENT UNIONISM…

Turkish Metal Workers Union defends the “Independent Trade Unionism” approach, which requires a distant relationship with political institutions and politicians, and does not cause any discrimination among political parties and trade unions or granting privilege to any of them.

TRAINING IS ALWAYS THE FIRST…

Turkish Metal workers Union provides training seminars to all its members in order to enable them to benefit from a contemporary content both in terms of cultural development and in bringing new members to the union.

 

A PROSPEROUS TURKEY…

Turkish Metal Workers Union fulfills its share to render Turkish Nation to become a prosperous society in terms of social and economic aspects.

SOLIDARITY ALWAYS…

Turkish Metal Workers Union takes part in solidarity activities which serves to find a solution to the issues involving workers, civil servants, retired people, farmers and craftsmen and other social groups through fair and democratic ways.

CONSENSUS AND DIALOGUE

Turkish Metal Workers Union seeks mutual understanding in order to create solutions from each side, employers and the workers, specifically during the times when the country get through rough periods in terms of economic and political stability.

OUR PURPOSE AND DEMAND…

The main demand of the Turkish Metal Workers Union is Caring People and Respect for Labor, and its main aim is to “Manufacture and to make Win-Win Policy prevailing”