tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27941559.post8391005895404255277..comments2024-03-13T18:03:14.612+01:00Comments on South Of Watford: Modern Day Slavery In AlmeríaGraemehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05948656158638818739noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27941559.post-37590797693536294292011-02-22T15:38:12.568+01:002011-02-22T15:38:12.568+01:00@Leftbanker - I think she did a good job. Many of ...@Leftbanker - I think she did a good job. Many of my Spanish colleagues were upset by the video: they'd never heard of this happening in Spain.<br /><br />The only way to possibly avoid this sort of thing is to know where your fruit and veg come from, possibly join a cooperative.<br /><br />I'm sure Spanish supermarkets buy this crap too.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06562902749398922096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27941559.post-50252883665657271242011-02-22T10:24:53.251+01:002011-02-22T10:24:53.251+01:00Yes, it's hard to believe that the supermarket...Yes, it's hard to believe that the supermarkets buying the produce aren't aware of the situation. The funny thing is that we are more likely to hear about kids making sports shoes in Asia than we are to hear about similar exploitation here in Europe.<br /><br />The problem I have is that we shouldn't have to depend on the will of the supermarkets to do something. This is what deregulation brings, proponents of it will never say that this is the situation that they want because we're all supposed to believe that employers will behave in a civilised way. But this is what you get.Graemehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05948656158638818739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27941559.post-64514883890477446522011-02-22T08:13:25.753+01:002011-02-22T08:13:25.753+01:00If the woman in the Guardian video was really doin...If the woman in the Guardian video was really doing her job as a journalist she would have traveled a little farther up the food chain and interviewed executives in the UK supermarkets. What she exposes in the video is the easy, obvious break-down in the capitalist system but this exploitation couldn't exist without the full cooperation of everyone in the process.leftbankerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13990365189051313153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27941559.post-26782755765413316462011-02-22T08:02:49.991+01:002011-02-22T08:02:49.991+01:00My younger brother is an automation engineer in th...My younger brother is an automation engineer in the USA and travels around to factories throughout the country. He tells me that more and more factories in the USA have a management team to run the business and then contract temporary workers to do the actual work in the plant. It’s like the old plantation system where the overseers make a decent living while the workers make around the minimum wage. The workers are exploited by the factories and then by the temp agencies who hire them. <br /><br />It’s like we rolled up the gains made by workers in the 20th century in the first decade of the 21st.<br /><br />How do we fight back? Stop eating vegetables?leftbankerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13990365189051313153noreply@blogger.com