At a press conference TEKSİF union shared detailed testimonies and evidence of what it says are systematic patterns of harassment, discrimination, and abuse at Digel Textile, a German-owned menswear manufacturer in the İzmir Free Zone. According to the union, the abuses include mobbing, psychological violence, pressure, intimidation, occupational bullying, sexual harassment, unlawful dismissal, discrimination, insults, workplace practices against human and women’s dignity. The findings, based on dozens of testimonies from workers, most of them women, are described by TEKSİF as revealing a disturbing picture of life inside the factory. Digel dismissed four leading union members without severance on the very same day they joined TEKSİF and won official recognition from the Ministry of Labour.
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