Human Rights Watch publicou hoxe un informe sobre China, centrado nas terribles condicións laborais que sofren os inmigrantes empregados na capital, Beijing, que acollerá este ano os “xogos olímpicos”. No sector da construcción, centos de miles de traballadores carecen de contrato e de protección fronte ós posibles accidentes.
O informe leva por título “One Year of My Blood”: Exploitation of Migrant Construction Workers in Beijing. Copio e pego un extracto da introducción:
Beijing, the capital of the People’s Republic of China, is undergoing an unprecedented transformation. The Chinese government is spending around US$40 billion to remake the city into a modern symbol of China’s rising international stature and growing economic strength. This investment is transforming Beijing from a traditionally low-rise city of narrow alleys and hutong courtyard homes dating from imperial times to a city of broad avenues lined with newly built skyscrapers and countless building sites. As many have commented, the 2008 Olympics are to be Beijing’s coming-out party.
The engine behind the creation of the new Beijing is the estimated one to two million construction workers who toil on the city’s building sites. The efforts of that largely invisible army are too often rewarded by wage exploitation resulting from unfair or non-existent contracts and the denial of basic public social services. Workers routinely endure dangerous work environments and lack any safety net, including medical and accident insurance. A dysfunctional government system of redress for workers’ grievances puts those who protest such injustices under threat of sometimes deadly physical violence. [...]
The worse thing of the western economy is amalgamated with the worse thing of the state dictatorships and form present China. And the worse thing of the worse thing is than to almost all, in the West, it turns out to them comfortable to have 1,500 million slaves who do not require attention.
Comentario por Carlos Norberto Mugrabi — 24 Marzo 2008 @ 17:11