SUNRISE Details of theinvestigation opened by the Asti Prosecutor’s Office on cases of gangmastering in the vineyards of Langhe And Roero. The newspaper made them known this morning The Republicamong the Turin pages.
We talk about “maman of Barolo“, women corporals in some cases, who collect the money from the orders from the agricultural companies, but employ the illegal workerswithout rights and with treatments very far from what is considered regular.
Nine suspects by the Asti public prosecutor’s office for illicit intermediation and labor exploitation, including a 32-year-old Moldovan woman resident in Alba. The other people are all Eastern, except for one Tunisian.
The stories of foreign labourersAfrican migrants, are what Gazzetta d’Alba has told many times. We talk about it here.
They sleep at Caritas First Reception CenterFor street and also in Cas, reception facilities. One is located in Roddi.
They tell scenarios of pain and abuse. Despite working for companies in a profitable sector – reference is made in the article to a large company whose vineyards extend from Barbaresco to Neviglie, up to Monteu Roero – in the UNESCO hills they have only known oppression.
There is talk of a Moroccan man, injured between the rows, after stumbling in the mud. The “boss” would have it left aching on the ground, until the end of the shift, without taking him to the emergency room. Another similar story is cited: that of another laborer who got his leg stuck in a gate in an attempt to escape the rain. The corporal, instead of helping him, dumped him at the end of the day in a square in Alba.
Labor consultancy firms are also mentioned, “which agree to register individual businesses and firms for agricultural work on behalf of third parties in the register”.
A microcosm that exploits the weakestwhich is emerging in all its drama.
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