Metro and tram companies stopped in Izmir after staff went on strike Monday because the municipality and unions couldn’t mutually agree on a brand new wage increase.
The talks regarding 625 staff had been ongoing between the municipality, the Social Democrat Public Employers’ Union (SODEM-SEN), and the Railway Workers Union (Demiryol-Iş) since Feb. 27 and ended at 4 p.m. on July 31.
As the edges couldn’t agree on the wage improve, metro and tram companies stopped at 5 a.m. on July 31, leaving Izmir residents to depend on buses or taxis on the primary day of the week.
Izmir Mayor Tunç Soyer said that the wage proposals provided by the municipality have been considerably larger than that of many public establishments and personal firms within the nation.
Soyer introduced that the municipality proposed a 105% improve within the highest internet wage, from TL 12,157 ($451) to TL 25,009. However, the unions demanded TL 33,813 for the bottom salaried employee and TL 39,685 for the very best.
“Izmir does not deserve to have the only public workers’ strike in Türkiye. There were other ways for workers to express their demands without going on strike, especially on the first day of the week, causing considerable inconvenience to the city and its residents,” Soyer mentioned.
He additionally introduced that the variety of bus companies alongside the metro and tram routes elevated to alleviate the grievances of Izmir residents.
The lowest wage of Türkiye’s civil servants elevated to TL 22,000 final month.
Earlier, the federal government additionally introduced a midyear 34% hike within the minimal wage from TL 8,506 to a internet of TL 11,402 for greater than 7 million staff.
In addition, simply as folks turned to buses within the absence of the metro, the municipality hiked the costs.
Izmir Metropolitan Municipality elevated public transportation and minibus fares by 48%.
As per the hike, the total first trip, which was TL 8.78, elevated to TL 13. While the primary switch was decided as TL 6.50, and the third switch was decided as TL 3.26.
The scholar fare, which was TL 3 in public transportation, elevated to TL 5.14. The above 60-year-old commuter’s first boarding is TL 11.50, first switch is TL 5.76, the second switch is TL 2.88.
While the rise within the minibus and hop-on hop payment, which was TL 10, turns into TL 15, and the payment as per distance grew to become TL 19-TL 25, respectively.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
