Amerika' yı Utandıran Köle İşgücü
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Slave Labour that Shames America
02/01/2010 19:18:05
Slave labour that shames America - Amerika' yı utandıran köle işgücü:
By Leonard Doyle in Immokalee, Florida
Published: 19 December 2007
Migrant workers chained beaten and forced into debt, exposing the human cost of producing cheap food.
Three Florida fruit-pickers, heldcaptiveandbrutalizedby their employer for more than a year, finally broke free of their bonds bypunchingtheir way through the ventilator hatch of the van in which they were imprisoned. Once outside, theydashedfor freedom.
When they foundsanctuaryone recent Sunday morning, all bore the marks of heavy beatings to the head and body. One of thepickershad anasty, untreated knife wound on his arm. Police would learn later that another man had his hands chained behind his back every night to prevent him escaping, leaving his wristsswollen.
The migrants were not only forced to work in sub-human conditions butmistreatedand forced into debt. They were locked up at night and had to pay for sub-standard food. If they took a shower with a gardenhoseor bucket, it cost them $5.
Their story of slavery and abuse in the fruit fields of sub-tropical Floridathreatensto lift thelidon someappeallinghuman rights abuses in America today.
Between December and May, Florida producesvirtuallythe entire US crop of field-grown fresh tomatoes. Fruit picked here in the winter months ends up on the shelves of supermarkets and is also served in the country's top restaurants and in tens of thousands of fast-food outlets.
But conditions in the state's fruit-picking industryrangefromstraightforwardexploitationto forced labour. Tens of thousands of men, women and children -excludedfrom the protection of America's employment laws andbannedfromunionizing- work their fingers to the bone for rates of pay which have hardly budged in 30 years.
Amerika' yı Utandıran Köle İşgücü - Slave Labour that Shames America
Slave labour that shames America - Amerika' yı utandıran köle işgücü:
By Leonard Doyle in Immokalee, Florida
Published: 19 December 2007
Migrant workers chained beaten and forced into debt, exposing the human cost of producing cheap food.
Three Florida fruit-pickers, heldcaptiveandbrutalizedby their employer for more than a year, finally broke free of their bonds bypunchingtheir way through the ventilator hatch of the van in which they were imprisoned. Once outside, theydashedfor freedom.
When they foundsanctuaryone recent Sunday morning, all bore the marks of heavy beatings to the head and body. One of thepickershad anasty, untreated knife wound on his arm. Police would learn later that another man had his hands chained behind his back every night to prevent him escaping, leaving his wristsswollen.
The migrants were not only forced to work in sub-human conditions butmistreatedand forced into debt. They were locked up at night and had to pay for sub-standard food. If they took a shower with a gardenhoseor bucket, it cost them $5.
Their story of slavery and abuse in the fruit fields of sub-tropical Floridathreatensto lift thelidon someappeallinghuman rights abuses in America today.
Between December and May, Florida producesvirtuallythe entire US crop of field-grown fresh tomatoes. Fruit picked here in the winter months ends up on the shelves of supermarkets and is also served in the country's top restaurants and in tens of thousands of fast-food outlets.
But conditions in the state's fruit-picking industryrangefromstraightforwardexploitationto forced labour. Tens of thousands of men, women and children -excludedfrom the protection of America's employment laws andbannedfromunionizing- work their fingers to the bone for rates of pay which have hardly budged in 30 years.
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Haberin devamı: "http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article3263500.ece"