PRESS RELEASE - International Workers’ Day: Migrants’ labor rights should not be compromised in times of economic crisis

BRUSSELS, 1 May 2013 – As the world is tuned into the tragedy that occurred on 24 April 2013, when more than 360 low-wage workers died in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory building which supplies big name retailers around the world, another horrific incident took place a week before in the European Union, when 28 Bangladeshi migrant workers were shot and severely injured during a pay dispute on a strawberry plantation in Manolada, Greece. These extreme incidents reveal the wider problem of an economic model which relies on cheap, exploitable labour and disrespect of legislation which safeguards fair working conditions.
(01.05.2013) PICUM
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