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After prolonged negotiations about establishing similar working- and salary conditions in the different brands of the group owning Migros Tez-Koop-IS Union decided on 28th September to take out a strike-warning. The strike would have come into effect only on 24th November as Turkish labour law requires a legal process to be finalised before a strike legally can begin.



On 20 November 2009 , Gursel Dogru , president of Tez-Koop-Is Union made a press release and announced that with its 13.200 members working in Migros Tez-Koop-Is Union would start a strike on 24 November 2009. Faced with the possibility of a nationwide strike the company asked to meet Tez-Koop-IS Union and after just two days a new collective agreement had been signed.

Second from right is President Gursel Dogru ,Tez-Koop-IS





Migros Ticaret A.S. formerly known as Migros Turk T.A.S. was acquired by Moonlight Capital (controlled by BC Partners UK) in February 2008. Migros Ticaret A.S. is among the leading supermarket chains of Turkey. The Group's principal activities are retail sale of food and beverages, consumer products and durable goods through shopping centres and a chain of stores. It also rents floor space in the shopping malls to other trading companies.

Besides the Migros brand name it also operates a chain of stores under Tansas, Sok, Ramstore and Macrocenter brands. The Group also operates internationally in the Russian Federation, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Azerbaijan.

Since 1983 Tez-Koop-Is Union has been signing collective agreements with Migros and only had to strike twice. However, on 28th September 2009 Tez-Koop-Is Union decided to call a strike as it was impossible to reach agreement at the collective agreement negotiations which had been going on since 22 May 2009.