Perspective of university employees to unionization: The case of Kırklareli University

The aim of this study is to reveal the perception level with regard to union rights among the academic and the administrative staff at Kirklareli University. To this end, the level of perception with regard to unions rights among the employees of Kirklareli University was examined according to the criteria of gender, age, education level, working period, type of staff and union membership status. In the analysis of the data, non-parametric tests of Mann Whitney-U and Kruskal-Wallis were used. The results of the analysis of the data obtained has two major indications: It has indicated firstly that the proficiency level, one of the factors of the perception level with regard to union rights, is higher among the women staff, and secondly, the level of perception (with all its sub-dimensions) is higher among the participants who are union members vis-à-vis non-union staff of Kirklareli University.