Symbol copyright EPA Image caption Migrant labourers earn as little as one euro to pick 100kg (221lbs) of tomatoes
Migrant labourers have long past on strike in Italy in protest at their bad working prerequisites, after SIXTEEN employees died in street crashes.
Shouting “we’re not slaves”, farm workers downed equipment and marched on the city of Foggia in southern Italy.
The strike comes after 16 migrants died in separate injuries in 48 hours.
In each cases, lorries wearing tomatoes collided with trucks wearing the labourers house after their day’s paintings.
Four employees died in a crash within the Foggia region on Saturday, and 12 extra perished in a head-on collision close to Lesina two days later.
Image copyright AFP/Getty Image caption Protesters wore red hats on their march into Foggia
Hundreds of migrant labourers come to Italy in the summer time, incomes as little as one euro (£0.90; $1.15) for picking 100kg (221lb) of tomatoes.
Most of them have common papers, but they’re frequently paid under the prison wage. Many are forced to reside in shanty cities without electricity or water.
Ibrahim Sissoko instructed Reuters that they’re “treated like slaves” within the unregulated trade.
“there’s no other work right here for us and so they know it, so they take advantage,” he said.
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Unions have up to now argued for a public shipping system round Foggia throughout the busy summer time duration to assist migrants, and their contributors joined the migrants’ march on Wednesday.
Governor Michele Emiliano of the neighbouring Puglia area also joined the march, and mentioned in a tweet that the demonstrators are preventing for “the glory of work”.
Image copyright AFP/Getty Symbol caption Union members joined the migrant staff on their march
more than 650,000 migrants – most commonly from sub-Saharan Africa – have come ashore in Italy when you consider that 2014, stretching resources in areas already struggling with prime unemployment.
