Field work is a risk activity
The death of a storm in Fraga highlights the urgency of dignifying agricultural work.
Last Friday 20 of June, A Pakistani worker died while collecting fruit on a fraga farm, Huesca, On a day with temperatures that reached 39 ° C. The man was transferred by his teammates to the health center, where unfortunately he could not save his life. Another death that adds to those of every year due to the extreme conditions to which the field workers have to submit each fruit collection campaign.
It is the fifth work victim by accident in the province so far this year, and reflects an alarming reality: precariousness and extreme exposure to the heat of the storms, Many without contract or papers. This is not an isolated case, but the symptom of a system that violates dignity and labor rights, covered in extreme conditions and business impunity. Because this person who died did not have the documentation to be discharged and how could it be, that campaign after campaign the fields are filled with workers who do not have the conditions to carry out the work legally. Because the reason is the lack of political will to take charge of the reality of the most vulnerable sector of the working class. Since workers are needed and many, But there are very few papers and thus precarize a sector that cannot claim for salaries, nor for working conditions. There can be no homeless workers and the field cannot be a risk activity.
We demand overwhelming measures for dignity and life
We demand the immediate regularization of the storms, regardless of its administrative situation, accompanied by rigorous labor inspections and sanctions to businessmen who fail to comply.
We also need heat protection protocols that include pauses, Access to hydration, Shadow and Medical Surveillance Zones, under real supervision by the competent authorities.
The existence of decent and accessible shelters is also claimed, that guarantee adequate hygiene conditions, space and social support, and whose provision is assured by public administrations.
Likewise, Specific measures against exploitation networks are required, mafias and intermediary figures that benefit from irregularity and violation of labor and human rights. Jail for gangsters and expropriation for the patterns that benefit from that system.
In memory of the deceased worker, and in solidarity with all the storms that support food production in inhuman conditions, We demand a structural and urgent change. Dignal work is a right. Life, It is worth more than its capitalist profits.
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