illegal migrant workers in Spain

Open door: The Guardian's reporting about illegal migrant workers in Spain | Comment is free | The Guardian: "A powerful film shown on the Guardian's website, and a two-page spread in print, investigated the plight of illegal migrants working in the hothouses of Almeria, southern Spain. The film showed the men living in shacks made from wooden pallets and run-down agricultural buildings. The workers themselves explained that they were paid around half the Spanish national minimum wage and often went hungry. Two charities and a trade union (SOC) backed the claims of the migrants about the conditions in which they lived.

The evidence in the film was such that Anti-Slavery International said the conditions met the definition of slavery as set by the International Labour Organisation. The use of the word slave was properly explained and justified."

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