How Swedish Real Estate companies exhibit slavery and selfishness.
They pay immigrants workers Skr10 per hour – What hypocrisy and shame!
Monday, 22 July 2013
Foreign construction workers employed in Sweden are exploited beyond
expression, a new reports exposed today Monday. Of all places, Swedish
real estate companies are leading the capitalist crusade of “dog eat
dog” and would put profit before people.
According to a survey conducted by the Labour Union, LO, there are
construction workers – mainly from EU countries in Eastern Europe – who
earn not more than Skr10 per hour, writes Swedish business daily
Dagens Industri.
LO’s survey shows that one in five construction workers in Sweden are
from other EU countries. According to the Swedish daily, Svenska
Dagbladet, some 15,000 construction workers who work for the so-called
non dominion enterprises are those found on the streets in Swedish
contraction sectors.
These foreign companies have a contract with Swedish companies. They
send foreign workers here to work on a project obtained by their
foreign employer. They then are paid slavish salaries. Theses workers
are employees of an agency supplying work force to companies with
operations in Sweden. Swedish construction companies are aware of this
but choose to stay quite on grounds that they will later argue that
they did not directly employ them. They will say that they pay their
employers well but are aware of the fact that these workers are fully
exploited.
In some cases, according to construction union, Byggettan- this is
driven by the fact that the industry sometimes have a shortage of
skilled labour.
“We have no comment. But there is no doubt that in many cases, it is
about to drive down wages and exploit people in a weaker position,
“says Claes-Mikael Jansson, an associate at LO to the Swedish daily
Svenska Dagsbadet.
Andrzej Stamirowski of Byggettan has travelled around the building
construction operations in Stockholm to inspect the working environment
of the various Union workers employed in the sector. He tells Svenska
Dagsbadet about how he met Ukrainian construction workers working for
Skr 10 per hour, Estonian construction workers paid Skr 14 per hour.
Some of the foreign underpaid construction workers are working in
sandals and sweatpants.
“Some of them have only two choices – stay on the streets and eating
garbage or work for Skr 30 per hour, then the choice is not difficult,
“says Andrzej Stamirowski.
Many foreign workers are said to work in the tax free or tax deduction
system introduced by the governement in homes of individuals who
are carrying out renovation.
By Scancomark.com Team
