Abstract:

In recent years the weakening in union movement in the world and in our country is obvious. If the unions take the internal factors such as employee opinions into consideration as well as external factors, this will increase their power and effectiveness. In this research the knowledge of 335 public officials employed in Manisa Food Agriculture and Stockbreeding Provincial directorate about the union regulation under the scope of “Public Official Union and Law of Collective Bargaining no. 4688” and their approach towards the union activities were measured. According to research findings, public officials have sufficient knowledge about union regulation but they think unions barely perform the activities forecasted in law no. 4688. Public officials stated that unions express their opinions related with the melioration of working conditions, fulfill the legislative assistance demands and take care of the problems about work and work place. On the other hand public official also think that unions are not effective in work life, union representatives cannot sufficiently represent the members, unions do not perform enough educational activities for elevating the vocational sufficiency of the members and unions do not use a portion of their income for elevating knowledge and experience of members. Public officials, who expressed that their satisfaction about the union activities generally decreased, do not want to take place in the union activities all the time. The expectations of employees from the unions were determined and proposals were submitted under the scope of the findings.

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