EU official warns of 'slave-like' labor market

Europe has a hidden labor market in which migrants and even children are working in "slave-like" situations, a European Union official said Tuesday.

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That the United States Capitol, and specifically the Statue of Freedom that rests above it, was built by slave labor has long been a source of shame.

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The cane is not weighed to determine how many tons the men have cut on a given day. Instead, the feitor measures the sections of the field each worker has cleared with a long stick, which he twirls in his hand like a drum major twirling his baton.

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Let us talk this Labor Day about slave labor in the United States.

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A Washington law firm filed a lawsuit yesterday against Iraq contractor KBR, "alleging that the company and its Jordanian subcontractor engaged in the human trafficking of Nepali workers," the Washington Post reported today.

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Victims of human trafficking and their survivors filed suit on August 27, 2008, in the United States District Court for the District of California against a prominent U.S. military contractor, Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc.

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Reminiscent of the "Re-education Through Labor" concentration camps of Mao's Cultural Revolution and of the Nazis, social and/or political "undesirables" that China does not want Western visitors to the Olympics to see are swept up and locked away, forced into slave labor, someti …

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At least 300 people were arrested Monday on immigration and identity theft charges at Agriprocessors, one of the USA's largest packing plants for kosher meats.

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As states increasingly crack down on hiring undocumented workers, western farmers are looking at inmates to harvest their fields. Colorado started sending female inmates to harvest onions, corn, and melons this summer. Iowa is considering a similar program.

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Three thousand foreign guest workers, 50 percent of them young women--1,500 from Sri Lanka, 900 from Bangladesh, 400 from India and 100 from Nepal--have been on strike since Monday, December 10, 2007. The situation is critical.

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Essentially slave labor used to create undergarments for Victoria's Secret. Workers are beaten, forced to work overtime without proper compensation and work permits are denied so workers must remain within the compound/dorms that they sleep in.

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The Victoria's Secret workers toil 14 to 15 hours a day, from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 or 10:00 p.m., seven days a week, receiving on average one day off every three or four months.

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For more than a decade, the Federal Prison Industries has been forcing inmates to handle toxic "e-waste" containing arsenic, mercury, lead and other cancer-causing chemicals.

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Walmart is Mexico's largest private employer, according to Newsweek, and that doesn't include the 4,300 unpaid teenagers that it lets "volunteer" to bag groceries at its Mexican stores.

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The illegitimate US Palace in Baghdad is being built on the foundations of human trafficking, labor abuse, and human rights violations. Well, why not.

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During testimony before the House Oversight Committee today, Rory Mayberry, a former subcontract employee of the firm responsible for the construction of the U.S.

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Is it is fair to say Western economies are living in a time of super-capitalism? Publicly listed companies face increasing pressure to post bumper profits one behalf of shareholders with the number of merger and acquisitions by the big end of town on the rise.

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The United States ostracizes its allies on grounds of failing in "investigating allegations and enforcing laws aimed at protecting foreign workers"; critics criticize.

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Along with flowers and jewelry, Valentine's Day is the holiday of chocolate. Lots of chocolate. Milk chocolate, dark chocolate, caramel-filled chocolate, chocolate hearts, chocolate kisses.

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A nice piece on the new China, and how being not-communist and not-democratic nicely does not contradict with being still the same dictatorship. It is also horrible every time to here how the clothes I and you and Sue wear really get produced. Touching!

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