TÜHİS awaits June inflation for offer to public workers

TÜHİS, which will make its third offer on the workers' side in the collective agreement negotiations in the public sector, is waiting for the June inflation figures to be announced.

The huge difference between the initial demand announced by the government as the employer and the workers in the collective bargaining negotiations in the public sector has created curiosity about how the contract negotiations will proceed. In the collective bargaining agreements that will affect the wages of approximately 600 thousand workers, the employer's side revised the wage increase of 17 percent for the first six months of the first year, while the workers' side announced their initial demand as 50 percent for the first six months and the lowest wage being reduced to 1800 TL per day.

According to the news by Mehmet Kaya from Ekonomim, sources state that the decline in annual inflation in May and June was effective in increasing the bargaining power of the government side in the public side's foot dragging. Indeed, with the June inflation to be announced tomorrow, annual inflation will have left out a significant portion of the high increases of the previous year on a monthly basis. In June, inflation expectations are concentrated around 1.5 percent as in the previous year. If inflation occurs at these levels, annual inflation will have decreased to 35.2 percent in the first half of 2025, which started at 40 percent by the end of June. The inflation in the first 6 months will also come to the range of 16.8-17 percent. It is said that the government will make its third offer after this stage, and that it may make a defense within the framework of the 2025 year-end inflation estimates by exceeding the inflation in the first 6 months and making a partial improvement in the 10 percent range it proposed for the second 6 months.