ABSTRACT

In this day and age, despite the harsh conditions and challenges against unionization there has been new organization experiences all over the world and in Turkey as well. New examples for the working class increase the numbers of workers daring to join unions and the trend of recruiting new members among trade unions. Trade unions, which represent the collective interests of the working class, are in this period making efforts to pass up the defence position to fight back and get reorganized. The object and the primary subject of this paper is to explore the reasons behind trends of recruiting new members, the newly-emerging strategies of the trade unions and their thecniques and means of organizing in Turkey