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• Turkish tobacco workers get upper hand in bitter dispute over jobs 

Prime minister seeks peace amid threat of general strike for trying to shunt 12,000 workers into lower-paid, temporary jobs
Jump to full article: The Guardian (uk), 2010-01-29
Author: * Robert Tait, in Istanbul

Intro:

Militant tobacco workers in Turkey are on the verge of an unlikely victory over the government after a bitter industrial dispute marked by hunger strikes, violent clashes with riot police and a siege of the governing party headquarters.

A dispute that has threatened to spill over into class warfare was triggered last month when the ruling Justice and Development party (AKP) announced the closure of 12 factories belonging to Tekel, the former state tobacco and alcohol monopoly.

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