They have paraded through the streets of the city, until you arrive in front of the prefecture of Latin to remember theirs Friend And fellow citizen. Satnam Singh’s name resonated from the outskirts to the center of Latina, while the Indian community hey labor unions they relaunched yet another appeal at the justice And against exploitationagainst those unscrupulous employers even willing to abandon its workers dying after an accident at work. In the square there were also those who saw everything that day, when Satnam lost his arm, horrified by the behavior of the “owner”
– as the workers call the employer – in the face of tragedy.
Unions and the Indian community of Lazio
“When he got closer he started swearing and threatening us (‘You have to shut up’),” one of them said. However, that silence was broken once again today by the community. «We want rights at work.
We want justice. We want what happened in Satnam to never happen again”, said the president of the Indian community of Lazio, Gurmukh Sing. Union representatives also took turns on stage Fai Cisl, the Uila-Uil, the USB asking in unison for more checks and quicker intervention by the justice system. Many members of the Indian community arrived from all over Lazio (Latina, Aprilia, Cisterna, Sabaudia and Terracina) and beyond. «We are ready to shout to say enough to one exploitation that lasts from centuries».
Witness to the accident: the employer said he was dead
Among the crowd there is also another worker from the company where Satnam Singh’s accident occurred. «I heard the screams of the employer and Satnam: I ran and saw him stuck under the machinery without an arm. Everyone we were asking to the employer of call the rescued but there was no way, why said he was dead. It was no longer there nothing to do». Ranjeet is witness of the accident in which Satnam Singh was injured, private of the rescue by the entrepreneur, under investigation for murder, Antonello Lovato. The farmhand died from his injuries about 24 hours later in hospital. Ranjeet also worked at the Lovatos Without a contracthe is also a irregularas were Satnam and wife Sony.
For the senator of the Democratic Party Annamaria Furlan, who marches in the procession with the farmers, «work is dignity, not exploitation. We will fight to approve one law against the gangmaster but a structural commitment is needed. Standards adequate and above all resources to increase the number of labor inspectors”.
Rota (Fai-Cisl): Latina is entitled to more than 4 million from the Pnrr, where are they?
«Satnam didn’t die from an accident at work, he was killed by brutality of a system». The general secretary of the Fai-Cisl, Onofrio Rota, said from the stage, adding: «A rotten system that humiliates people, their families and the same healthy businesses that operate legally. However, if we are here today it is because pain and anger must transform into something else, they must become proposal, participation, solidarity, action: we are no longer willing to witness a slow, bureaucratic, blind policy, while crime instead runs and he sees very well. From here today – continued Rota – we must demand structural responses and change things. This is why we must give ourselves a timetable, as we asked the government, to do some things with certain times.”
«Let’s overcome the flow decrees, let’s encourage the emergence of immigrants, let’s overcome the Bossi Fini Law, let’s say enough to landless cooperatives, let’s introduce tax relief for companies that register with the Quality Agricultural Work Network, let’s involve bilateral bodies in finding the manpower, we use law enforcement technologies to cross-reference the data. And then we report the Pnrr money allocated for the labourers: where are the 200 million programmed to overcome the ghettos? In Latina they almost deserve it 4 million and 400 thousand euros: where are they, how will they be spent, over what time frame? We must have answers to all this.”
Fundraising for Sony
The whole city of Latina rallied around Satnam’s family, with the Municipality ready to call the citizen mourning once the methods and dates of the funerals of the labourer. The family is in contact with the embassy in order to bring back to India Satnam’s body. The municipal administration of Cistern of Latinainstead, has activated a Bank account on which to raise the funds to be allocated to Sony and its loved ones.
