On Apr 21, 11:56 pm, nada <dwalters...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Apr 21, 3:28 pm, Vngelis <meberr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> >http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7357762.stm
> > Greek farmers clash with migrants
>
> > By Malcolm Brabant
> > BBC News, Athens
>
> > Map
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> > Fighting has erupted in Southern Greece between strawberry farmers and
> > migrant workers striking for higher pay.
>
> > According to a Greek trades union sup****t the migrants, about 400 were
> > attacked by farmers and what were described as "hired thugs".
>
> > Three trade unionists were hurt and one farmer was arrested, police
> > say.
>
> > The clashes occurred in an area hit by last year's fires, and where
> > slave labour conditions for fruit pickers have recently been revealed.
>
> > The fighting took place in the village square of Neo Manolada in the
> > province of Ilia - which produces 90% of Greece's strawberries, and
> > whose agriculture was ruined during the fires.
>
> > No compensation
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> > Slave labour conditions in the strawberry plantations were exposed
> > earlier this month.
>
> > Most of the pickers are immigrants, and receive wages well below the
> > national average.
>
> > They live in shacks and are forced to pay as much as half their income
> > in rent to their employers.
>
> > Last week the workers from South Asia and the Balkans went on strike
> > to demand that their daily wage be increased from $36 to $47 (=A318 to
> > 24; 23 to 30 euros). The farmers say that would ruin them.
>
> > Ilia is one of the areas complaining that it is still to receive
> > compensation promised after the fires.
>
> > For their part, the pickers say they are virtually destitute and are
> > being exploited.
>
> > Most of them came to Greece to send money back home to their families.
>
> > But with food prices rising in Greece as elsewhere in the world, the
> > migrants say they are finding it impossible to survive.
>
> One wonders what side Vngeis is on....
>
> David
Well the story according to the press not that I believe them is that
Greek farmowners hired Albanian thugs to do in Pakis, Banglas, and
Afghanis over wage rate demands. But because I dont believe the press,
the bosses may have hired the Asians to do in the Albanians who are
now 'old' immigrants and are on higher wages. Hence I would sup****t
those defending their jobs on higher wages irrespective of
nationality...
Either which way this is a race to the bottom and 'civil war' scenes
in small villages bring the whole edifice into show for what it is,
medieval barbarism.
Maybe the solution would be to demand more immigrants arrive that is
after all your policy and the other clowns on the editorial board of
MIA?
The imperialist press highlights the word 'Greek' as if it is a race
clash of not wanting foreigners, when Greeks haven't toiled on the
fields for over two decades...
vngelis
vngelis
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