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UK agricultural workers exploited

dimanche 12 octobre 2014 à 14:00

Agricultural workers in the UK are stripped of their passports and their pay, and gouged on rent.

This is a world-wide pattern, much like what happens to construction workers in Qatar.

A government that doesn't want to let businesses exploit people could adopt laws that make it harder to get away with this. One approach would be to make the farms directly liable for how the temp agency treats the temporary workers. It would help to prosecute the executives and staff of the temp agency, as well as the agency, for any wrongdoing; I can't tell from the article whether this is already done.

TTIP

dimanche 12 octobre 2014 à 14:00

The European Commission is inventing strained legalistic excuses to block a referendum opposing the TTIP.

Big banks face criminal charges

dimanche 12 octobre 2014 à 14:00

Big US banks once again face criminal charges, but the executives will probably get off unscathed yet again.

Arrest of Kurds in Turkey

dimanche 12 octobre 2014 à 14:00

Kurds fleeing into Turkey have been arrested without charges and accused of fighting PISSI.

It's unlikely to be true, since some of them are children. However, if some of them really did fight PISSI, it is disgusting to punish anyone for that.

Customers' call records

dimanche 12 octobre 2014 à 14:00

UK mobile phone networks' computers provide customers' call records to the state automatically whenever asked, without even checking for a legally valid order.

A legally valid order made by thugs, without the need to justify it to anyone, is not morally valid.