Solidarity Center Report: Migrant Workers Among Most Exploited

Friday, October 11, 2013

Solidarity Center Report: Migrant Workers Among Most Exploited(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.

 

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