Memur-Sen issues 'reputation restoration' warning to Arbitration Board: 'They must make good use of this opportunity'

A written statement was issued by Memur-Sen regarding the 8th Term Collective Bargaining process, which ended in a dispute. Memur-Sen included the following statements in a post shared on its X account:

"As Memur-Sen, we have stated until today that the Public Officials Arbitration Board has functioned as a 'Public Employer Arbitration Board,' acting as a notary rather than making fair decisions, and for this reason, we do not trust the Arbitrator.

For this reason, we decided not to take the 8th Term Collective Bargaining to the Arbitrator and did not file an application.

However, since the Public Employer has stepped outside of its established practices and filed an application to the Arbitration Board itself, the arbitration process has begun as of today. The eyes of millions are now on the Arbitration Board.

It is now the responsibility of the Arbitration Board, starting from today, to ensure that the 58 articles recorded in the Meeting Minutes through consensus during the negotiations are accepted as they are, and that our other proposals—primarily regarding proportional increases, base salary raises, and welfare shares—are evaluated and decided upon in a fair manner to establish wage balance in the public sector, ensure fair income distribution, protect labor peace, and enable tax justice and the strengthening of the family.

"A NEW TRADE UNION LAW MUST BE ENACTED"

This process creates an opportunity for the Arbitration Board to fix its damaged image and restore its tarnished reputation.

The Arbitration Board should use this process for its reputation restoration and must make good use of this opportunity! If there were no distortions in the law, the implementation of the 58 articles agreed upon and signed in the minutes would not have been left to the mercy of the Arbitration Board.

Indeed, it is no longer possible to conduct collective bargaining with the current trade union law. A new Trade Union Law must be enacted where the right to strike exists, freedom of organization is fully ensured, the Arbitration Board is structured to make independent decisions, and a fair collective bargaining system is built."