Consumers' Rights Must Be Protected for a Better World
With very little time left until March 15, World Consumers Day. The food inflation and purchasing power of minimum wage earners study conducted by the Consumers' Rights Association and announced with a press release, covering January 2013 to January 2014, will be one of the topics of discussion for that day. The Consumers' Rights Association is a voluntary, independent, and democratic civil society organization founded at the beginning of 1991 by various segments of society such as pensioners, civil servants, workers, engineers, teachers, lawyers, and housewives.
Working to Protect Consumers' Rights
The association's headquarters are in Ankara. The association's aim is the best implementation and development of universal consumer rights, the creation and dissemination of consumer awareness, and the spread of a strong, correct, and effective consumer movement. Today, the Consumers' Rights Association has 43 branches and approximately 13,000 members. In the study conducted by the Consumers' Rights Association on food inflation and the purchasing power of minimum wage earners, the last year's food inflation was compared with the salary increases of minimum wage earners and retired workers between January 2013 and January 2014. According to this, it is clearly seen that inflation has increased and purchasing power has decreased for a large segment of the population.
Consumers' Rights Association
www.tuketicihakları.org.tr
GMK Bulvarı No:12 Onur İşhanı Kat:3 Oda No:64
Kızılay, Ankara
Tel: 0312 417 03 34
