Announcement from İZBAN

Announcement response from İZBAN: TCDD, which operates the Aliağa-Menderes suburban line in İZMİR, and İZBAŞ A.Ş., a joint company of İzmir Metropolitan Municipality. The management responded harshly to the advertisement given to newspapers on behalf of the staff and complaining about the low wages. İZBAN A.Ş. “Explanations that are tried to be introduced as a back-up sound in the process of süçem are steps towards creating an opportunity from the environment. The salaries in the announcement are unreal, the figures from the High Arbitration Committee are paid ”.
İZBAN A.Ş., in which TCDD and İzmir Metropolitan Municipality are 50 percent partner. It was complained that unionized employees were given a low salary with an advertisement on behalf of the personnel working on the suburban line operated by the union, such as mechanic, maintenance technician, and station attendant. It was stated that the announcement was about Binali Yıldırım, former Minister of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications, candidate for the AK Party Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, and Aziz Kocaoğlu, the Mayor of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, and a solution was requested.
İZBAN responded to the announcement on its official website today. IZBAN management, stating that they provide public transportation services to 220 thousand people in İzmir every day in an uninterrupted, comfortable, safe, fast and inexpensive manner, stated that everybody, from the mechanic to the workshop staff, from the box office staff to the administrative staff, has stated that they have a lot of effort in reaching today's strong position. In the statement pointed out that the İZBAN employees, who ensure the people of İzmir to travel safely, are members of such a strong, visionary and idealistic family, our former Minister of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications, Mr. It was stated that they carried all the burden of this responsibility together and successfully.
The İZBAN administration, which also rejected the claims in the announcement, said: “We see the statements made in the days when our country is in the election process and which are tried to be introduced as the common voice of the İZBAN family, as steps to create opportunities from the environment. There is no further explanation for trying to bring these authorities to the center of the debate with false statements made despite the decision of the High Arbitration Panel. Our institution, which sees the organized society as an integral part of labor and democracy, employs personnel according to the scope of the joint decision taken in the collective bargaining agreement and pays its employees the wages stated in the decision of the High Arbitration Committee, not the unreal low figures stated in the announcement. We believe that the common sense people of Izmir will understand this message correctly, and we emphasize once again that the announcements made with the advertisement are not the common voice of the İZBAN family ”.