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Issan Record har en bra artikel om dom drygt 22 000 Thailändska gästarbetarnas situation inom det Israeliska jordbruket, dom allra flesta kommer dessutom ifrån Isaan.
Det finns ett avtal mellan Israel och Thailand om hur mycket betalt dom ska få o.s.v men dom flesta får uppenbarligen inte den lön dom egentligen har rätt till och ska ha enligt avtalet.
Dom tjänar ändå bättre än i Thailand men villkoren är dåliga, livet hårt, bostäderna dåliga och någon normal arbetsrätt finns inte , detta gör att både fackliga organisationer i Israel och Human Right Watch kritiserar Israel för hur dessa gästarbetare behandlas.
A Long Way from Home – Isaan Villagers’ Experience of Farmwork in Israel
Since the early 1990s, tens of thousands of Northeastern Thais have left their farms at home to work as agricultural laborers in Israel, often facing exploitation by manpower agencies and employers. Despite a recent push to improve the working conditions of Thai farmworkers in Israel, their situation often remains precarious.
By Matan Kaminer
A Thai farmworker sits in his bedroom in the residential area of a farm in Moshav Yavetz in central Israel. Photo credit: Shiraz Grinbaum / Activestills.org
Over 22,000 migrant workers, mostly from Isaan, are at work on farms in Israel. Although they are but a small percentage of the total number of Isaan villagers who migrate to work abroad, the Israeli agricultural sector has become completely dependent on their labor.
In some rural settlements, Thais now outnumber Israelis, and in modern Hebrew tailandi has become almost a synonym for “farmworker.” Though wages in Israel are much higher than those in Thailand, workers’ labor rights are often violated and living conditions are sometimes atrocious, as has been documented by Israeli NGO “Workers’ Hotline” and the international organization Human Rights Watch.
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