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, held captive esir and brutalized gaddarca davranmak by their employer for more than a year, finally broke free of their bonds by punching yumruklamak their way through the ventilator hatch of the van in which they were imprisoned. Once outside, they dashed atılmak for freedom.

When they found sanctuary sığınak one recent Sunday morning, all bore the marks of heavy beatings to the head and body. One of the pickers toplayıcı had a nasty kötü, 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 wrists swollen şişmiş.

The migrants were not only forced to work in sub-human conditions but mistreated kötü davranmak and forced into debt. They were locked up at night and had to pay for sub-standard food. If they took a shower with a garden hose hortum or bucket, it cost them $5.

Their story of slavery and abuse in the fruit fields of sub-tropical Florida threatens korkutmak to lift the lid kapak on some appealling korkutucu human rights abuses in America today.

Between December and May, Florida produces virtually neredeyse the 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 industry range sıralanmak from straightforward apaçık ki exploitation istismar to forced labour. Tens of thousands of men, women and children -excluded hariç tutmak from the protection of America's employment laws and banned yasaklamak from unionizing sendikalaşma- work their fingers to the bone for rates of pay which have hardly budged in 30 years.

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