We would like to thank you and LabourStart for your incredible support during the Italian High School strike.
This campaign has been a milestone for the union movement in Turkey. For the very first time, a strike was launched in a private school, mobilizing a highly educated and distinct segment of the working class.
We set up our strike tent and raised our flags at the gates of a prestigious school in the heart of the city. We spent over 100 days on the picket line under continuous police surveillance, but we were sustained by the incredible solidarity and love of our students.
At the end of these 100 days, we successfully reached a verbal agreement, though it has not yet been officially signed by the Italian authorities. Throughout this journey, the support from students, parents, and fellow trade unions was immense.
Most importantly, thanks to LabourStart, our voice reached across the globe in multiple languages. The international solidarity messages you helped generate traveled all the way to our picket-line, giving us the strength to carry on.
This has been an invaluable experience for us. We made history by organizing the first strike in the private education sector, and we are now on the verge of signing the first-ever collective bargaining agreement in a foreign school in Turkey.
We hope to share the final, signed good news with you very soon.
Thank you once again for standing with us.
Long live international solidarity! Long live our strike! Viva la solidarietà internazionale! Viva lo sciopero!
Labour News Network 