Immigrant workers exploitation is global

international | worker & community struggles and protests | other press Wednesday November 23, 2005 13:07 by Tom Joad

It appears that the brutal exploitation of migrant workers is not, as we always maintained, onfined to a few bad apples, but is prevelant across the economy and across the world. But workers are fighting back. Read this heartwarming article of fightback and workers unity

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600 striking construction workers win their battle

Immigrant workers in Middle East are on the move
Khalid Bhatti, CWI, Pakistan

Immigrant workers in the Middle East are fighting against the slave conditions they face and the non-payment of their salaries. Although they belong to different countries, religions and nationalities, they are showing class unity. They are showing how the workers of different countries, nationalities, religions, races and languages can be united on a class basis. Pakistani, Indian, Bangladeshi, Egyptian, Filipino and Nepalese workers are united against super-exploitation and repression. Construction sites, in particular, have been turned into slave camps for the building workers.


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