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"No podemos ver el trabajo de los chinos desde un punto de vista europeo. Allí ganarían 50 euros" · ELPAÍS.com"We cannot see the work of the Chinese [immigrants] from a European point of view. There they'd be making €50" - ElPais.com
Unos 200 empresarios chinos acaban de concentrarse delante de la sede del Departamento de Interior, en Barcelona, para protestar por la operación policial que hace una semana se saldó con el cierre de 72 talleres de confección y la detención de 77 propietarios.About 200 Chinese business owners have just had a rally before the headquarters of the Interior Department [of the Catalan regional government], in Barcelona, to protest against the police operation one week ago which had a balance of 72 closed workshops and the arrest of 77 owners.
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... Lam ha resaltado que los 450 operarios de los talleres de Mataró "quieren volver al trabajo". Eso, a pesar de que trabajaban en condiciones duras: 12 horas al día por 20 euros, en habitaciones insalubres y con poca luz. "No tenemos que verlo desde un punto de vista europeo, porque en China esa misma gente no pasa de los 50 euros al mes".Lam [a spokesman for the Chinese businessmen] stressed that the 450 workers from the Mataró workshops "want to go back to work". That, despite the fact that they work in harsh conditions: 12 hours a day for €20, in unsanitary rooms with little light. "We must not look at this from a European perspective, because in China people make less than €50 a month".

Some people truly have no shame.

A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds; a man of deeds and not of words is like a garden full of turds — Anonymous

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jun 23rd, 2009 at 08:09:10 AM EST
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They are free to work for low wages! Why on earth would you curtail their freedom to work for less, if they're consenting? That's so ... insulting to their ability to know if they are exploited or not.

And if they are forced, well, then, they have recourse to the law, right?

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Jun 23rd, 2009 at 09:30:55 AM EST
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