McDonald's foreign workers call it 'slavery'
Source: CBC
McDonald's foreign workers call it 'slavery'
Belizian temporary foreign workers docked pay for rent in corporate apartment
By Kathy Tomlinson, CBC News Posted: Apr 17, 2014 3:00 AM MT| Last Updated: Apr 17, 2014 11:32 AM MT
Foreign workers recruited from Belize are accusing McDonald’s Canada of treating them like "slaves," by effectively forcing them to share an expensive apartment – then deducting almost half their take-home pay as rent.
“When we arrived at the airport, they said, ‘We already have an apartment for you,’ so at that point we already know we don’t have a choice of where to live,” said Jaime Montero, who came to Edmonton with four others in September to work at McDonald’s.
"We had to live there. We were told this is what we are doing," said another worker who didn't want to be named because he still works for McDonald's.
The Belizeans said their dream of making good money in Canada to send to their families quickly shattered. Instead, they pocketed less than $800 per month – which they said was barely enough to live on.
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- K&R
...on the other hand, slavery goes back a ways. To the beginnings of history. In fact, history itself largely began with the discovery of clay tablet accounting records of a system designed to keep up with plunder and the sales transactions of the people and booty they'd won in their raping, conquering, pillaging and other atrocities. So from that perspective, it's relatively ''new.'' Although it appears that the 1%ers are trying to recombine the two into the new ''slave-wages.''
- The irony here is of course, that the Repubs who like to take credit for ending slavery and saving the union, are now doing the EXACT OPPOSITE, while they themselves self-destruct.
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