The ruling elite of the Republic of Turkey undertook a new project for therealization of a planned industrialization at the beginning of 1960s. The reflection ofthis project to the collective labour law was required centralization in the area of tradeunionism. In this respect, however, struggling for the protection of basic rights andfreedoms, and social rights against the structure of powerful government of 1950scaused a paradoxical situation. The laws regulating collective labour law, on onehand, was aiming at recognizing the freedoms of trade unionism and the right tostrike, on the other hand, was stipulating some rules in the name of providingcentralization. The changing of the situation was resulted from failure of the projectand separation in the movement of trade unionism due to the political reasons.Employers who were disturbed by increasing wages in some industrial sections andillegal strikes (occupation of factories, etc.) obtained a codification from theParliament which violated freedoms of trade unions, by coalition of workers who hadsimilar economical and political attitudes with themselves. This situation brought thegreatest workers protest(15-16 June 1970) in Turkey?s history |