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“She could not bear the stress and fainted”: Seasonal Work on UK Farms
Over the past eighteen months, FLEX have been working with Rosmini Centre Wisbech, Citizen Advice South Lincolnshire, and the Southeast and East Asian Centre (SEEAC) to conduct surveys and interviews with actors along the food supply chain. Jacob Bolton from FLEX relates how the research found deep-seated, systemic issues on UK farms, with evidence of several indicators of forced labour – including deception, isolation, withholding of wages, intimidation and threats
Migrant Seasonal Workers Exploited While Supermarkets Profit
A new report has revealed the structural drivers of exploitation in the supply chain and migration system for migrant workers employed on large soft fruit farms. The Landworkers’ Alliance, in conjunction with the New Economics Foundation, Focus on Labour Exploitation, Sustain, the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, and a network of former farmworkers, launched the report to show the extent of the exploitation and makes a series of demands for reform.