Jan 2009: Court Cases Confirm Union Discrimination

Januay 2009: On the 24th December the Turkish court found that Emine Arslan from the Sekafoy DESA factory and 4 other workers from the Duzce factory  were illagally dismissed as a result of union activity.

The judgemeent laid out that these workers should now either be reinstated or properly compensated for illegal dismissal.

DESA have appealed these findings.

On the 20nd January the court heard a further 3 cases of unfair dismissal filed on behalf of DESAworkers. This was followed by a further 5 on the 22nd January 2009. All 8 workers were judged to have been illegally dismissed as a result of union organising.

DESA have yet to respond to these judgements, other than to continue to refuse reinstatement to Emine and a number of other workers.

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