Stoppage of Work by Amnesty International Face to Face Group Against Subcontracting

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Amnesty International Face to Face group in a statement for the press in Abbasağa Park of İstanbul's Beşiktaş district said that they were going on a strike.

The group had told bianet in yesterday's (10 June 2017) interview that they would quit work as Amnesty International employed them as subcontractors and added that Amnesty International was imposing working conditions which would not comply with its own mission and principles upon its own employees.

"Precarious working conditions"

Stating that there was no balance among the employees in term of loan, the group said that there were also "severe cases of injustice and discrimination among the employees working in the field".

"The workers of the 'Face to Face' project are also employed under precarious conditions.

"The workers of the project are excluded from several fundamental rights as well as from many social rights such as training and transportation allowances compared to the organization's other workers who are members of the union and they are made look like employees of a human resources firm".

Work stoppage to end subcontracting

The strikers have called on the Amnesty İnternational to immediately compensate the inequality in loans and improve the working conditions and have gone on a strike to end subcontracting. (TP/HK/DG)