Buca Municipality Workers Win Eight Days of Action: All Wages to be Paid in Three Months

• July salary will start to be deposited into workers' accounts tonight and tomorrow and will be completed during the day.

• August salary will be paid in full on October 2.

• The municipality's all retroactive receivables (collective agreement differences, food cards, etc.) will be paid in full within three months at the latest.

• The municipal administration has pledged to make a special effort to avoid any delays in salary payments from the new year (2026).

• Most importantly, the protocol guarantees that no administrative or legal sanctions will be imposed on workers who participate in the protest.

Presidents Informed the Public: "Good Luck"

Addressing the workers gathered in front of Buca Municipality after the meeting, DİSK/Genel-İş Izmir Branch No. 6 President Değer Yıldız thanked the workers for their eight-day struggle. Yıldız said, "Good luck to all of us. We had demanded the August salary, and on October 2 you will receive your August salary. Within three months at the latest, the receivables in the municipality will be paid in full and the salary problem will end. With the new year, we will start the process in which salaries are paid regularly and in full."

Buca Mayor Görkem Duman said, "We have been having problems with salaries for months due to the economic difficulties we have been experiencing. We signed a protocol with the union by planning income and expenses in a balanced way. We will look ahead within the framework of this protocol. We will work more sensitively with our team in order not to experience such problems again." Duman added that from now on they will work for the continuation of services in Buca without interruption and for the solution of the garbage problem.

This achievement was considered a concrete result of the organized struggle of municipal workers.

Source: universal.net