ISTANBUL — Members of Turkey’s largest union gathered in the nation’s 81 provinces Monday to denounce proposed changes to severance pay laws, threatening a general strike if the measures are introduced in parliament.
“If the laws regarding our severance pay are introduced in parliament, we will extend the march we began today into a general strike, a general resistance,” said Arzu Cerkezoglu, chair of Turkey’s Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions (DISK), in a statement Monday.