ABSTRACT

The concept of union commitment refers to the emotive and cognitive attitudes and behaviors of workers toward their unions. The main objective of this study is to examine the levels of union commitments of the union members in different labor union confederations in Turkey. The empirical research was undertaken on the research sample consisting of 1325 volunteered union members of three major labor unions confederations of Turkey, the Confederation of Progressive Unions DİSK , Confederation of Turkish Trade Union Türk-İş and Hak-İş Trade Union Confederation Hak-İş . As the methods of data collection in the empirical research part of this study is the Union Commitment Scale Gordon et al., 1980 . The most important finding of the research is that the workers scores on the union commitment as to their confederations and branch of work are near the average score of scale. The finding indicates the union commitment is not high-level