ANKARA - Turkish government is set to lift the ban on strike and lock-out in several sectors and rearrange the law on unions.
Labor & Social Security Ministry officials prepared a bill to amend the law on collective bargaining and strike & lock-out after debating it with representatives of labor and employer unions.
The new bill revokes the ban on strike and lock-out in banking and petrochemicals industries as well as sea, road and rail transportation services, educational institutions, child care places and rest homes.
But the bill prohibits strike and lock-out in lifesaving and salvage works, exequies, firefighting services provided by governmental institutions, notarial business, as well as water, power and gas production and distribution industries.
The ministry also prepared another bill to amend the law on unions.
The bill on unions requires seven people to set up a union. Under the bill, three unions, in the same business line, will be able to establish a federation.
The bill also lowers the number of business lines from 28 to 18 in which a union can be established and it allows only three unions in one business line.
The age limit will be reduced to 15 from 16 to become a member of a union under the new bill that gives permission to unions and confederations to have international activities and cooperation, open overseas representative offices and establish union organizations abroad.
The bill on unions also allows unions or confederations to set up radio and television channels.
Labor & Social Security Minister Faruk Celik will have a meeting with chairmen of labor and employer unions to discuss these two bills and complete all details of the bills.
Ministry officials plan to submit the bills to Council of Ministers as soon as possible if they can reach a consensus with labor and employer unions.
(TÇ-ULG)