Abstract:

Level of collective bargaining, that determiness the impact area of collective agreement, is quite important for employees and employers. Social and economic structures, industrial relation traditions, features of plant and enterprise, te nd of trade unions, social policies of countries and other a lot of factors are effective in levels of collective bargaining of countries. Levels of collective bargaining can go up plant or enterprise level between one or more trade unions and individua l employers, industry level between one or more trade unions and a group of employers from a particular industry or occupation, national level between trade unions and employers and employers’ organisation at national level and multinational level between trade unions or trade union federations and employer organisations on an international level. Collective agreement right was firstly guaranteed with 1961 Constitution in Turkey. Industry and plant level collective agreements were separately regulated in Law No:275 which came into force in 1963, however, a relationship was established between the two bargaining levels. Collective agreement right, which is guaranteed once again in 1982 Constitution, have been revised in plant and enterprise level, which was accepted Law No:2822 in 1983

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