Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Aziz Kocaoğlu, who went to Metro Inc. and had a surprising meeting with workers and trade unionists, offered 25 percent raise for Metro and 30 percent for İZBAN. However, the union rejected these proposals. Reminding that he was at his duty until the evening of March 31, Mayor Kocaoğlu said, “I will not dismiss the job anyway because I quit. I will not leave debris. It is not true to say 'somehow I will not pay the incoming'. It doesn't suit me. "I will not be a populist."
Mayor of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Aziz Kocaoğlu came together with the metro and tram employees of İzmir Metro A.Ş and celebrated their new years and thanked them for their services. Meeting with union representatives at the Metro Headquarters building in Halkapınar, Mayor Kocaoğlu offered 450 percent hike to the salaries of the workers in the Metro collective bargaining talks concerning 25 unionized workers. Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Mayor said that if this offer is accepted, he will forward his “30 percent” offer to İZBAN to his partner TCDD. However, there was a negative response from both union wings to both proposals.
İzmir Metro A.Ş. Speaking to his workers, Mayor Kocaoğlu said, “I will be in charge of my duty until March 31st. I will not ignore the work because I quit anyway. I will not leave debris. It is not true to say, “I will not pay a penny anyway. It doesn't suit me. I will not be a populist. I will work with the same consistency and the same philosophy of life for what I have known for 15 years, not for applauding.
Reminding that the employees of the Metropolitan Municipality, which provides public transportation services, are the guests of İzmir and their guests, as well as their spouses and children, their relatives, relatives, neighbors and raise them to work, school and hospital, Mayor Aziz Kocaoğlu continued:
"We are a family. This city and this municipality are all of us .. I have been the Mayor of Metropolitan Municipality for 15 years. Leave my investments aside. But everybody knows that I do not separate anyone among my employees because of their political views, sects, where they come from and where they go, and that I look at them from the same point of view. I will continue to look like this. I took it one day squad for the first time 6 thousand 500 contract workers in Turkey. For this reason, I have not been left without saying 'making inventions'. I have been making inventions for 15 years. I will continue for 3 more months. 88 days left. I always favored the labor, the worker, the peasant and the oppressed. I will continue to take it throughout my life. They can question my everything, but nobody wants my view of the labor, the oppressed, the human being & n bsp; does not have the right and law to question. I am a brother of yours who has proven this in my 71 years of life. This should be known as such. There is money, there is no. Money can be given, not given. He keeps an account, he does not, but the important thing is the bad day friendship The important thing is friendship. The important thing is that the Metropolitan Municipality family of 27 thousand people knows what the mayor will do and what he will not do. It is important for the president to be clear. How will you give what you cannot give? "
I use the money of Izmir
President Kocaoglu, 1 press conference as of October 2019 local elections, but the Mayor of Mayor has announced the decision not to run for the Mayor 31 underline that the task will be held until the evening of March, emphasizing the following:
“I served as mayor for 15 years and this time is enough. Now I want to hand the flag over to a friend and take the services even further. What I know correctly for 15 years, I will continue to work with the same consistency and the same philosophy of life until the last day. We came together with the union's İzmir Branch management in the previous collective agreement period. They could not sign the collective agreement. I have already said that this will be the case. As a matter of fact, we signed with Ergun Atalay, President of Türk-İş. The 70-year-old Railway-Labor Union went on strike only once in this year. He has been on strike twice in Izmir in the last two years. The same union has collective agreements elsewhere. We know. The figures there have nothing to do with the number we give from afar. This is a separate game. If I was a populist, I would say, 'I will not pay a penny, I will pay some money'. But this is not true. This is not my job as the city of the city, which Izmir residents have voted for 15 times over the last 3 years. I shouldn't. I use the money of the people of Izmir and I have to run a big ship of 27 thousand people without water. ”
There are different scenarios
Demiryol-İş Union Izmir Branch managers gathered with the workers after İzmir Metropolitan Mayor Aziz Kocaoğlu left the hall and evaluated the 25 percent hike proposal and rejected the offer.
Reminding that if an agreement is reached in Metro, President Aziz Kocaoğlu reminded that İZBAN will send a 30 percent hike offer to his partner TCDD management, “But we couldn't do that either. Unfortunately, we are faced with an imposition. Turkey insisted that we get a negative answer, despite our best propositions can be given according to the actual figures. The strike is right, but in the best rate the employer can give, it is different scenarios to make victims of citizens, to take away their right of public transportation and to do this only in İzmir. As İzmir Metropolitan Municipality, we are working on alternatives on public transportation for our citizens. Together, we will fight against this imposition. I struggle for Izmir and Izmir residents. In this process, I expect the support of our fellow citizens. "
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