ABSTRACT

The study aims to determine TİSK’s approach to the right to strike in the years when TİSK has completed its establishment gradually period of 1961-1963. These years were a rapid restructuring and recovery process and a new phase of transition for employers’ association. Also in these years, trade union, collective bargaining agreement and right to strike were guaranteed first by the constitution and then the laws numbered 274 and 275. In this context, these years additionally mean a transition to a new period in terms of labour relations. In the study, the founded years of TİSK and the process of quarantining and institutionalizing the right to strike will be examined in a related manner. TİSK’s views about the institutionalization of the right to strike will be evaluated through confederation publications, press releases and various sources. Then TİSK’s attitudes and behaviours regarding the actual strike action will be determined through the example of the Kavel strike which was the important labour movement in that years. In this way the approach of TİSK, which is the most important actor of employers’ association, to the right to strike during its foundation years will be tried to be revealed in two ways in discourse and practice.