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Closing Event of the Project on Raising Awareness of Health and Social Service Workers on Achieving Work-Life Balance and Creating Policy Recommendations for the Protection of Worker Rights in Achieving Work-Life Balance was held on March 30, 2026 in Ankara, capital city of Türkiye.   Closing programme of the said …

Mr. Devlet Sert, President of our Union of the Öz Sağlık-İş Health and Social Services Trade Union and the Vice-President of the HAK-İŞ Trade Union Confederation signed an important agreement suggesting cooperation and exchange of knowledge and experience with the General Trade Union of Health Services and Pharmaceutical Industry Workers …

Mr. Devlet Sert, President of our Union, Öz Sağlık-İş Health and Social Services Trade Union and Vice-President of the HAK-İŞ Trade Union Confederation conducted a working visit to Iraq and held important discussions with his counterparts during his programme. As part of these visits and programmes, a new bilateral cooperation agreement …

Mr. Devlet Sert, President of the Öz Sağlık-İş Trade Union visited the Head Office of the National Committee of Workers’ Committees of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on January 27th, 2026. Our delegation consisted of Mr. Devlet SERT, President, Mr. Muhammet Esat Eyvaz, Vice-President/Executive Board Member, Mr. Adv. İlyas Şeker, …

Mr. Sert: OHS is a fundamental human right and a global responsibility: OHS at workplace should not be postponed and ignored Mr. Devlet Sert, President of the Öz Sağlık-İş Trade Union,  made a speech at the Occupational Health and Safety in the Workplace Seminar” which organized through the cooperation of …

New Executive Board as a result of 4th Congress of the Öz Sağlık-İş Trade Union   The ÖZ SAĞLIK-İŞ held its 4th congress (General Assembly) on 07-08 November 2025 in Ankara, capital city of Türkiye.  The ÖZ SAĞLIK-İŞ Trade Union is such a labour movement which is deeply bound up with …

The Öz Sağlık-İş Trade Union founded in Ankara on February 27, 2014 has been operating in the Health and Social Services sector in compliance with the Turkish Act on the 6356 numbered Unions and Collective Labour Contracts. The Öz Health and Social Services Workers’ Union (ÖZ SAĞLIK-İŞ) maintains its international …

OUR FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES CONCERNING THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AND COLLECTIVE LABOUR CONTRACTS First priority of our Syndicate is to inform and consult workers at every stage of the collective bargaining process. We participate in both consultation meetings and negotiations with employers together with our representatives and a small group of our …

KEY STONES IN OUR UNION’S HISTORY Öz-Sağlık İş Sendikasi was, the Real Health Workers Union, founded on 27 February 2014 in Ankara, capital city of the Republic of Türkiye. Its full name is the Real Health and Social Services Workers Trade Union and abbreviated as ÖZ SAĞLIK-İŞ in Turkish language. Its full title is …

Our union provided a training opportunity to an Egyptian unionist in 2025 autumn in Ankara. Ms. Shaimaa Ali Elsaid MEKHIMAR who is Treasurer of the General Union of Health Services Workers of Egypt (GUoHSW) participated a-month-period-on-the-job-training programme at our union’s head office in Ankara, capital city of Türkiye in line …