Workers at HAVI Logistics in Turkey, organized in their sectoral union Nakliyat-İş, have been waging a tough and persistent struggle for many months for their most basic rights.
HAVI Logistics, a German multinational logistics company, is responsible for the transport, storage, and distribution of the products that supply McDonald’s restaurants. For this reason, McDonald’s bears full responsibility for the working conditions and the rights of workers throughout this entire supply chain.
HAVI Logistics workers are fighting for the signing of a Collective Agreement with wage increases, humane working conditions, health and safety measures at workplaces, and respect for trade union activity and their dignity. They have been facing an employer insisting on poverty wages, work intensification, and employer arbitrariness.
HAVI Logistics and McDonald’s systematically place obstacles in the way of signing a Collective Agreement, making use of anti-labor laws and mechanisms. Nevertheless, the workers continue decisively and are escalating their struggle in an organized manner with a strike starting on 24 January 2026.
The rights of the working class worldwide are being consciously sacrificed to increase the profitability of monopolistic groups. Anti-labor laws that abolish Collective Bargaining Agreements, with the open support of sell-out trade union leaderships, along with subcontracting, flexible forms of employment, and employer and state repression, are used as tools to impose silence in workplaces and to subordinate workers to the demands of capital.
The problems faced by the working class in Greece and Turkey are common: wages that do not cover basic needs, exhausting and flexible working hours, work intensification, inadequate or non-existent health and safety measures at workplaces, rising prices and an unbearable cost of living, with healthcare and education turned into expensive commodities.
Our common enemy is the system that generates exploitation, poverty, and insecurity. The answer can only be the strengthening of internationalist and class solidarity, organization in trade unions, and struggles for Collective Agreements with wage increases and the securing of rights, for stable daily working time, health and safety measures, and respect for trade union organization and activity.
PAME salutes the struggle of HAVI Logistics workers and their union Nakliyat-İş and expresses its full solidarity and support for their strike and mobilizations.
12.1.26
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PAME
