factor has blood on it from wounds that have yet to heal. what should be done with the stone or from ofer god. this is being hotly debated on both continents. stolen soul storage depot 13 on t.w. . several german meat packing plants was hit last year by the corona virus thousands of workers were infected. and what else my melon ever go back to germany was a it was the worst experience i've ever had was bought with danny me. more than full mean romanians would confer on country mostly in western europe many put in moments from now ok some can visit their families and leave few weeks

a year. their best 30 has to earn money so that we can survive in some of this with them. this has created a labor shortage in romania so many employers civil hired workers from asia they usually pay the minimum wage less than trainers palace where i made all day is really hard work when. i need you and i need to provide for my wife and son to give them a nice life that's why i came to romania. in april 2020 cheering a new wife as kofi to. bases in europe $25000.00 romanian sisterhoods to work in

germany they took off from the post inclusion in the world in romania on special flights arranged by jimmy's agriculture ministry. among them is alberto google and his wife maria. on the what the what if one do all of this is not what i called all kinds of romanian companies to try to find a job when i got no response and to that damn one man can because of covert we have no food and no money. is up but now fortunately not we're going to germany to work it is just to go on. the average monthly wage for unskilled workers in romania is about $300.00 euros a month these people would likely earn a lot more than that in germany the book went out with the 1st 2 months on an asparagus farm and then will go to work and a slaughter house but if you just want. better knows he's running

a risk of contracting coverage but he has to earn money. the average minimum wage in germany is just under 10 years per hour that's more than 3 times what it is in romania. elisabetta moved to is also moving to germany that there's a but there will try to protect ourselves against the virus some of them but we have to work at the bottom i don't have a job here all my guessing and everything in romania has been shut down because a covered all this and have gone there aren't many jobs here anyway and if you do find a job it won't pay much that is that they move good for the slap up that. oh i am. bought for alberto an area their 1st job in germany was a disaster when it's not better to cell phone features that showed the living conditions. despite the pandemic close together in containing.

maria became ill. here's a video of my wife it was cold outside and she had a headache and a fever in the container next door there were 4 romanian suspected of having kovac with. alberto got into an argument with the supervisor iyam urrea when they find it . will be like our cold war or so they were up to a week ago my wife and i were flown to germany to pick asparagus or of you're going to but i'm all on 4th or 5th born but the company screwed us over tricked us she. treated us like slaves school of gates. that depend just now the supervisor kicked us out you could actually if you could

that so for the time being we'll have to sleep on our street. after a few days other to manage to find jobs for himself and his wife at a meat packing plant owned by the 2 news corp. we've come to the bavarian town a straddling to meet eric mcconnell a romanian citizen who works for a nonprofit human rights organization mcconnell advises romanian migrant workers on their legal rights and he says he's been flooded with calls from people who need his help. mcconnell says the working conditions for many of our main ians in germany are treasures he provide some examples. the myth about the development for the hour right now are some companies have threatened these workers in for a fake or public with information about the business they're fired right away and

they don't get. it if one the middle man of one and many of the workers live in housing that the company provides just out in and if they cause trouble tossed out onto the street before. that's what happened to alberto he was fired and he and his wife were forced to leave the company housing for 3 days the couple slept in the woods mcconnell has heard lots of these stories when asked what it is or not the company always does this at night because there are no lawyers or union officials around to know why is that if these workers have heard of me they'll call if not they end up on the street at night with no money the workers want to keep their jobs so most of them don't complain next we travel to a village in romania to meet elisabetta moldovan. was.

elisabetta also had a hard time while working in germany she'd been employed at the same strawberry farm for several months every year since 2010. to 2 months of work she was paid 3700 euros but in 2020 she came back oh much earlier than expected and without any money. oh. hi there you sure look busy that albert. i know you know that just calling we. just elizabeth her sister in law. works occasionally in foreign countries most recently as a nurse in italy but she lost that job because of the pandemic. i thought you were doing fine in germany with a good showing and suddenly there you were on the web and on t.v.

and you're talking to a labor minister what was that all about. for them was thought well we organized a protest demonstration. along with the owner and the minister violetta alexandru came to visit us at the farm in germany. elisabetta and the other workers were paid only a fraction of what they'd been promised son nothing so $150.00 harvest workers most of them from romania held a protest march the demonstration called the attention of romania's labor minister . she wanted to find out why we hadn't been paid and then she asked me why did you go to germany in the 1st place did someone force you to go on a so i looked at her and said well minister i had to leave because i had no other way to around money. i couldn't find

a job that romania she. has opinion. elisabetta worked as a local cotton factory for 15 years then she lost her job in this part of romania it's nearly impossible to find work the pays well so now elisabetta looks after the household and her grandchildren. as like as this is our house with the door me shot my husband then i got a loan from the bank and started building in 2007 wasn't a void so we had to go to germany to work so that we could make the loan payments but she. she starts there will be on our street you'll see 2 new houses later it's lots of people here get a van cliburn and then go off to work in germany england italy or other countries to make the payment scott. oh pick up those lane at that there's a bunch of. romania's population is just to have

a 19000000 about 9000000 people have. 4000000 of those people work abroad during the summer and that number can rise to 5000000 as people take seasonal jobs on founds or at construction sites. the minimum wage in romania is 2 euro $81.00 an hour that wages higher and many western european countries. for example it's 9 euros $35.00 in germany and in france it's 10 year i 15. we've come to this village in southern romania to visit help. he's just come back from germany and feel his dean may have been infected with corona virus.

because he's self isolating right now he says his work in a german meat packing plant was a nightmare. if not of my memory i'll never go back to germany glad if not even when the pandemic is over which i it was the worst experience i've ever had. others who was working at a plant owned by the 2 news corp more than 1500 workers they were. infected with cause it including some of his colleagues the speeches of the facility would take in the form of the outbreak. mephitic a cinch and i was scared to tell you the truth i knew that the virus was dangerous and i was and i was right in the middle of it at work. when you're carrying around a 50 kilograms slab of meat you can't keep a social distance so everyone was in close contact with each other and we had to keep working i was so scared that i felt sick i told my boss that i wanted to stay

home i also wanted to talk to a doctor from michael he said you're not going anywhere. a few days before the plant was forced to close alberto moved out and went back to romania but his wife continued to work as long as she could. i. i left because i was so afraid of getting sick will never be with my wife wanted to stay to keep earning money despite the risk to her health and i. may even manias who work in the german meat packing industry have gone to eric mcconnell for help then why did the company will punish them for speaking out so we agreed not to show their faces. to. the difference rogers says i'm over the why don't you show the companies promised big wages up to 2000 euros

a month or not but they also promised normal working hours just like i did here was fun for. the when the new workers arrive at the plant they find out of they'll have to work 12 sometimes even 16 hours a day. and then the resigned company housing with 56 or even 10 people to a room and. mcconnell meets with the workers in public. places away from the prying eyes of the bosses. when you meet i think it's the mood when a worker finally gets the courage to complain to a supervisor he's in for a rough time and how defensive they'll tell him keep your mouth shut otherwise you're out the door if it's going to threaten to withhold the workers' pay for to slap them with a fine because they can't find someone to replace them right away or deserves you to call you should this kind of psychological pressure amounts to modern day slavery was

a. elisabetta song powell also wants to work in germany in spite of the pandemic. powell is 20 years old and still lives with his parents he has a job but it doesn't pay very well. you know. if i go to germany i'll miss my parents and my girlfriend a lot. more and i even worry that my girlfriend bullied me but at least i'll be earning good money. i'll be pals neighbor patron works in a jam and meat packing plant he's taken a few days off so he can visit his family town has lots of questions about his job . to. do it out there also tell me what are the conditions like.

what sort of work do you do and how many hours a day on the 3 of them at the door. and i work in the store to house a couple next me to 4500 pigs a day sounds like a tough job that you don't know what kids are you can't understand why powell would want to go to germany to work. often wake up at night because i think i hear my child crying will come with a bit of course it's just a dream it's pretty bad and loving if i could find a job here. elizabeth his brother also works in a gemini taking plant for many romanians taking jobs like that is the only way that they can provide for their families with their bus for things i'm really worried brother and his wife and the children have been diagnosed with covered. they haven't answered their phone for 2 weeks. and now has some power

also wants to go to germany to work. i wish she wouldn't not this year anyway not while we're still dealing with a pandemic. if you went to germany i worry all the time the race that. so many local residents have left clues that some piece misses who brought in workers from asia to fill the gap usually worked at low paying jobs. these men from sri lanka came to romania in late 29 tain. all of them are unskilled workers. including 39 year old. show cofer slit sri lanka to look forward to age of 18 he married and had

a son he hasn't seen his family for more than. that was my wife just now i'll go upstairs where the signals better and then i'll call her back and. i sure could cut down his expenses so that you can afford a good internet connection for these calls he also sends money home he gets by on the equivalent of about 100 euros a month it's a hard life but the calls with his family make it worthwhile. i want to see them and talk to them every day. when i see my son's face i feel a little better. it helps me relax and that tension inside me just goes away. sugar has worked in kuwait dubai and singapore his life there wasn't much better

than a decent now i don't know what would happen to them if i died. but as long as i'm alive i'll try to help my family. all work hard. i don't need a lot in life. but i'll provide a good life for my son and my wife. i'll keep trying. that's why i came to romania. meanwhile there's good news and bad through is it better. for has been so intense found a new job despite the corona pandemic. but he'll have to leave the country again. my poor husband is going to france again to work in construction or he can't earn a living by another in year and we need the money so early yeah so what else should i pack my agent and take the shorts was ok. to overalls

and i think that's all. it's always hard to sake of bikes it's best if you sent them plenty by hope that you'll be ok as the guns but i'm so afraid that this time something bad is going to happen. i'm also worried about the virus but i'll do everything i can to feed my family. elizabeth until tonight that they have no other option. meanwhile back inclusion the shifted to commercial kitchen where shoka works is upset the employees from sri lanka haven't shown up for work yet.

here are 2 of them on their way to a bank that hadn't been paid in several days so they've gone on strike. today people are going to work because we haven't gotten our salary yet. my family is waiting for the money i'm going to check my account right now. bashir couldn't see equivalent of about $400.00 euros a month he needs his money and is ready to fight for it. i keep checking my account over and over again. things are going well i can't sleep they won't send the money so we won't go to work things like covering like these so i know that the families in real life by you know so we had some programs that when we came here a friend no i probably feel like that's all we want to hear right.

meanwhile zoltan will leave for the airport in about an hour. it is time to feed the pigs one last time. south of there with my wife will take care of the animals while i'm gone and you know when i want that. zoltan plans to work in france until november during that time he'll come back home several times to visit. new it's hard for me to leave my family i guess that but i have to go to france to earn money. he'll do it while i'm there i won't be able to see my grandchildren my wife and my son. and that makes me very sad that he's. had since romania joined the e.u.

in 2007 and elisabetta have been working abroad on and off. now it's time to say goodbye once again. one of the old times friends will take him to the airport. he's on his way to the friend's house right now. the best. guy understand that he has to lead to earn money for us when turbot be here in a couple of months and we won't be able to work at all just. that inclusion a shocker salary has finally been deposited in his bank account so he and his colleagues headed off to work their 4 hours slice and they hope that they won't be fired by sugar words 10 to 12 ounce a day for less than 3 years an hour. is there the meat that i work with it's beef. if i have to cut it up and make hamburger patties it's really hard work

we have to turn out 30 or 35 kilos of meat every day i that's all i do on this job . and today he'll have to make up for the 4 hours that he lost while he was on strike. it is a work here every day in the burger prep section we really have to prepare a lot of meat we make patties every day to. keep from asia have now filled a number of unskilled shops in romania most of them are employed in the catering meat packing in construction sectors. the number of asian lives in romania has risen sharply in recent years most of the illegally illegally. here at the official statistics and

2015 remain here issued 5500 work faces of people from asia and 2018 that number grows to 15000 and by 2020 that figure had doubled to more than 30000 despite depend. we visit other to google again he knows that his wife is healthy but is now in quarantine i'll bet her friends a colleague who became infected with the virus when he was working at the meat packing plant. people were getting sick one after another. the company bosses kept us working even though a lot of people were getting sick. if the authorities and the media had stepped in or they'd still be working. under. a bushel can't understand why his colleagues still wants to stay in germany. with their. mind farts. my. erik macondo is on his way to northern germany to help to romanians who

want to apply for government legal 8 lawsuits in the meat packing industry are increasingly common these days. in men defects in the work has changed over the years for 10 or 20 years ago you had a qualified foreman at the slaughterhouse your grandmother's asian and people were paid a decent wage because and worked just 8 hours a day as gaap there i shipped them mark there were 3 shifts sometimes for days when management respected the workers. is that's not the case today let's begin. in the last decade the number of unskilled foreign workers in the germany packing industry has tripled to either 50000. back into a shock and his colleagues have just finished their shift it's 1 in the morning.

yeah did it hot well it was tough today because we were really busy afterwards we had to clean up so we didn't finish until midnight when there were just 4 of us then we went out for a beer and now we're heading home now if. i had to pay an employment agency in sri lanka a 2000 euro commission to get a 2 year work permit. it's often the same for other mania here. all of us had to borrow money to pay the fee. and some borrowed from their families but i borrowed money from a bank. so now i have to pay interest on the loans. and send money to my family. most of the money that show to enjoy in the 1st 6 months in romania went to pay back the employment agency so he couldn't afford to send money

to his family. meanwhile would manage to track down all those who google again he's moved to another country. i'm now in mt sweden doing handy work. we get up at 5 every morning and then the company takes us to work in a bus. it's sort of like a hardware store. people come in and tell us what they want renovated or repaired and then we do it but it pays only $1000.00 euros a month. alberto doesn't know when he'll return home or how his wife in germany is getting along. at the same time a disability is waiting for her husband's old time to cool down from his new job in france. he's been there for food he's now.

jimmy. what do i want for the future here's the list of bush subhuman but i want the whole family to be together with them some niggas i want them to find jobs here in romania so the jobs that pay an honest wage so that we don't have to move to foreign countries to work i was lying about it. that my sweetie. what's up i was waiting for your call them i can't wait to see you in 6 weeks i miss you so much already.

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