Nakliyat-İş, the transportation workers' union affiliated with the Confederation of Revolutionary Trade Unions of Turkey (DİSK) announced that they will go on strike in FedEx on 19 August since no agreement was reached in the collective negotiations with the company. 

Union members met in the Beyazıt Square in İstanbul, and chanted slogans and carried banners stating their demands. 

Agreement must be signed by 80% of workers

Nakliyat-İş President Ali Rıza Küçükosmanoğlu spoke at the meeting and said that the strike action will start on 19 August. Accordingly, the legal procedures to go on strike have been completed but the negotiations also continue. 

Küçükosmanoğlu said that there were some steps that the employer had taken but that the overall offer made was unacceptable. 

"We have a promise to the FedEx workers. Nakliyat-İş union will not sign an agreement which is not approved by 80 percent of the workers. We will go on strike because our aim is to get decent salaries."