2021年10月28日木曜日

German System of Slave Workers

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Voice | ‘They did nothing to help, they abandoned us’
8 October 2021

Thirty-year-old veteran  Jaba Chachanidze joined a temporary farm worker program jointly organised by the German and Georgian governments. When he arrived, he found nothing but backbreaking labour, squalor, and returned with less than 10% of the money he was promised.

‘Added to that I had to pay €150 for “housing” per month, when in fact it consisted of two interconnected containers in which 24 of us, workers from Georgia, lived.’



‘Another nightmare was living in that “house”. The containers had two bathrooms for 24 people [...] we had one water heater and there were six women among us, whom we always allowed to go first. We, the men, constantly bathed in cold water.’

‘None of us had any personal space. Added to all this was a catastrophic lack of money. Work gloves, raincoats, boots, products, internet, water —  everything we had to purchase — we didn't even have drinking water there.'

‘Once we had decided that we should leave that place, I wrote to the German Labor Inspectorate, which checks the employer on the working and living conditions they provide.’

‘Some immigrants I had met recommended a company who could help me. Neither the embassy nor the employment agency had taken the initiative to help us. 

‘Now I have a debt of €1100 — from here I went to Germany I borrowed €800 and when I arrived I borrowed another €300. Now every second of my life I think, how I can possibly pay it all back.’ 

‘Most of those who went to Germany for temporary work now have psychological problems, myself included. I still can only fall asleep after taking medication.'

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