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18.12.06, 15:55
"These newcomers, who live in fear of losing what little work they've found,
are beyond the reach of the well-integrated first-generation Polish community
in Southampton, a city dubbed "Warsaw on the water".
At 4am, some of these Polish workers climbed aboard minibuses, to be taken by
their gangmasters to "the Flowers" [...]
Other workers are brought to World Flowers from Slough, where they live,
sometimes three to a room, in gangmaster-owned flats. [...]
Katarzyna claimed she, too, was paid £3.50 an hour in cash, despite her
payslips saying £5.05. And Kristina, a builder in Poland, who worked for
Rosegar between November 2005 and June 2006, said she was paid £3.50 an hour
in cash. Another worker, who declined to be named, said he had been paid just
£140-150 for six days' work.
An Afghan worker, Ali, who has been working for Rosegar Ltd for three years,
on £3.50 an hour,[...]
calosc z sob. guardian:
money.guardian.co.uk/workweekly/story/0,,1972985,00.html
