MOBILITY - Working and Living Conditions in the E.U.: 06/01/2007

Monday, 25 June 2007

JOB LOSSES FOR WORKERS IN FOOD INDUSTRY IN THE UK

Bernard Matthews freezes pay, jobs loss, potential sale of plants and new deal with Bank.

Bank deal

Newspaper report

Thursday, 14 June 2007

SLAVE LABOUR IN EUROPE

See the report of cases of Portuguese workers

Listen to the witnesses statements of cases in Holland, Ireland, Belgium

Tuesday, 12 June 2007

"The United Nations reports that human trafficking is now the third largest moneymaker for criminals, after drugs and weapons. No one is sure how many people were enslaved 50 years ago, but the number is thought to have grown rapidly with the population explosion to an estimated 27 million today. The increase in slavery is also linked to globalisation. But this is not about sweatshop workers existing on miserly wages. Slaves are under the complete, violent control of another person; they are economically exploited, and get only enough food and shelter to keep them alive. For millions of victims, their experience differs little in hardship from that of slaves hundreds of years ago". Read it in the FT

SLAVERY EXISTS IN THE UK TODAY

"Migrant workers are particularly vulnerable to slavery and exploitation". Read the Joseph Rowtree Foundation Report

MAP OF ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE

see here

CONSUMER PARADISE IS WORKERS' HELL

see the case of the bananas industry

NOT EVEN EARNING THE MINIMUM WAGE

in the hotel industry

"Today, most immigrant workers in industrialised countries are employed in the three 'D' jobs - those that are dirty, dangerous or degrading. They are not, in the main, competing with local labour". Says the INTERNATIONAL TEXTILE, GARMENT AND LEATHER WORKERS’ FEDERATION