Hej
Enligt uppgifter i dagens The Nation http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/DSI-to-probe-berry-picking-fiasco-30217186.html ska DSI utreda varför bärplockare i Sverige och Finland inte fick sina löner och lämnades utan hjälp, vilket ledde till stora problem för dom drabbade och i vissa fall även ledde till självmord.
Bra att detta utreds och jag hoppas att det leder till att skyldiga straffas.
Bärplockningen och den dåliga behandlingen av dom fattiga människor som drabbas har ju blivit en skamfläck för Sverige och även svenska myndigheter borde agera kraftfullt för att få stopp på detta.
DSI to probe berry-picking fiasco
The Nation October 16, 2013 1:00 am
The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) will take over a case in which workers from the Northeast were duped by a promise of berry-picking jobs in Sweden and Finland - then left unpaid and unaided abroad.
Former berry-pickers Winai Kaewkebkham, from Khon Kaen, and Sudjai Thongsri, from Chaiyaphum, yesterday urged Pol Lt-Col Kornwat Panprapakorn, the chief DSI investigator for the Northeast, to help after they failed to get paid.
Kornwat said northerners and people from Phetchabun and Chai Nat were lured to work overseas but had to pay Bt120,000 in travel expenses. An initial probe found a company that sent Thai workers to Sweden had caused 500 people to suffer total losses of about Bt100 million, he added.
Winai said a Chaiyaphum-based agency hired him and fellow villagers to pick berries from July 20 till October 10 for about Bt100,000 per head. So, people borrowed money to fund their travel to Sweden but found hard living and working conditions and didn't get paid as promised.
Winai claimed a fellow worker, Buala Laophrom, hung himself in a public toilet because he had blown his life savings to travel in hope of earning money from the job for his family. "Now all the family has is his ashes," he said, adding that other workers also faced debts after returning to Thailand.
Facing the prospect of being unpaid for their labour, Sudjai said he and 50 fellow villagers, who picked berries in Finland, had filed a complaint to the Finnish government and labour union to punish the company involved. He also wanted the DSI to punish the Thai company involved. He said the affected workers were "saved" by fellow Thais in Finland who raised funds from selling berry juice to buy them tickets home.
