Solidarity Center Report: Migrant Workers Among Most Exploited
Friday, October 11, 2013(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
At age 22, N. Naga Durga Bhavani left her small village in India for
Bahrain, where she hoped a job as a domestic worker would help pay for her young
daughter’s heart surgery. But when she arrived, after paying labor recruiters
the equivalent of nearly two months’ wages, she was trapped in an abusive
environment where she was beaten, her fingers broken. World Day for Decent Work
this week highlighted how millions like Bhavani toil for poverty-level wages in
exploitative working conditions that are unsafe, unhealthy and even
life-threatening. Read more at the Solidarity Center.