Camile wrote:When you pick Fruit/Veg, you are defenetly exploited ! but do they all go that far ? do you really think that it's in the same conditions ? beating to death, missing people and so on ?
Yes, these are often the same people that are trafficking women for prostitution; forcing people to act as drugs mules; and using people for slave labour in the cleaning industry (and others that require large numbers of people at low cost). And it's not just business that benefits, there are thousands of people doing forced labour as domestics and child carers all around the UK.
As for the violence, when the Select Committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs heard from Don Pollard, the Transport and General Workers' Union's expert on gangmasters, on 21 May 2003, he said "We have difficulties now to prove a murder if there is no body and it is equally difficult to prove some of these crimes which have been committed if we do not know specifically who the people who are running the businesses or subcontracting them are. I think a registration scheme would be a first step, it is by no means a solution but it is a first step to know who is operating out there. It is not uncommonâ€â€
