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Reason for Researching Social Dialogue at the Workplace

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The primary focus of this study is investigating attitudes held by social partners in Turkey towards various mechanisms of social dialogue at the workplace level and the underlying reasons for these attitudes. This subject is being examined because social partners in Turkey have different perspectives on mechanisms that will facilitate social dialogue in the workplace, which can be unified in certain points but remain separated in others. This distinction presents the different approach patterns for Turkish labour relations. To demonstrate the requirement to analyse the views of social partners, the following example can be given: just after worker representation was enacted in Turkey, three workers’ confederations demonstrated against this practice; however, social partner representatives, whose ideas were sought during field research, expressed different views on this matter.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    For this purpose, certain projects have been conducted such as Strengthening Social Dialogue in Turkey for the Innovation and Change Project (MoLSS) (2006–2008); Strengthening Vocational Education and Training System Project (MoNE) (2002–2007); Strengthening the Occupational Health and Safety Councils’; Other Social Dialogue Mechanisms for the Shop Floor Level Project (ÇASGEM) (2012); and Technical Assistant for Improving Social Dialogue in Working Life (MoLSS) (2016–2018). Among these projects, within the Project of ‘Strengthening Social Dialogue in Turkey for Innovation and Change’ and ‘Technical Assistant for Improving Social Dialogue in Working Life’ include activities that are based on the association of workers and employers, as well as grants that were transferred to workers’ unions and employers’ organizations. Through these grants, workers and employers were expected to conduct joint activities that were mainly organized in many different sectors.

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    The detailed figures on this matter are listed under the title of ‘5.1.2.2. Collective Bargaining and Bilateral Social Dialogue’.

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    For these thesis, see: Yorgun (1992), Işığıçok (1997), Kulualp (1998), İren (2000).

  4. 4.

    The list of Engin Yıldırım’s papers are mentioned in the References of this book.

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Cam, E. (2019). Reason for Researching Social Dialogue at the Workplace. In: Social Dialogue and Democracy in the Workplace. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8482-9_1

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