A-Infos (en) Italy, Sicilia Libertaria: USB - THE DEAD ARE NOT ALL THE SAME. (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]..

Three years ago the death of Fodie, a young agricultural worker, gave 
rise to numerous initiatives, demonstrations, debates, assemblies in the 
square with very specific demands which we have submitted to the local 
administrations. ---- Fodie died while, like every morning at dawn, he 
was going to work on his bike on a farm in the area between Vittoria and 
Acate. A car hit him, leaving him to die on the side of the road. ---- 
Fodie left his wife and two children in Mali. Naturally he worked 
illegally, for 35 euros a day, from 7 in the morning to the evening, the 
normality of work in the fields in the transformed area.

In these 3 years we have witnessed other dead workers, other accidents 
at work and workers abandoned in front of the emergency room, workers 
abandoned in farmhouses lost in the middle of the countryside. We have 
also witnessed workers disappearing into thin air, as happened in Douda.

Until the present day, when a young Senegalese worker died, his name was 
Boubacar.

He too, like Fodie, was going to work in the countryside at dawn with 
his bike. The poor visibility and the absence of lighting were fatal, a 
rush to the emergency room wasn't enough.

These episodes have been repeating themselves for years and the 
so-called Italian civil society has become totally accustomed to these 
events, while the only ones who never get used to them are the migrant 
workers who knew and shared the same pains, the same exploitation of 
Boubacar's Fodie di Daouda.

Exploitation is the factor that these workers have in common. An 
exploitation of man by man which in the transformed segment becomes 
particularly inhuman. Thousands of women and men employed in greenhouse 
work, without rights, exploited, both at work and beyond, and forced to 
live in the worst housing conditions. Isolated from the city context and 
unable to carry out any form of integration.

Second-class deaths that do not concern politics, institutions, most 
trade unions, so-called civil society. Invisible, for those who pretend 
not to see, which support our economy and our "agricultural 
entrepreneurial class". Agricultural entrepreneurs who manage to remain 
on the market only thanks to exploitation, lowering wage costs and 
illicitly disposing of the waste produced. In this context, large-scale 
organized distribution dictates the law, free to aim downwards on the 
purchase of agricultural products. A game of massacre that inevitably 
hits the weakest link in the chain hardest: the workers.

After these deaths, these disappearances, these accidents at work, the 
migrant workers, who have demonstrated on several occasions that they 
are able to react and organize the protest, are now experiencing a phase 
of decline, of discouragement and fear, of disillusionment because 
nothing changes.

Our small union, together with the C.U.B. and some political groups have 
long since begun a real battle on these issues, day after day, 
demonstration after demonstration, while the confederal unions think 
almost exclusively about how to maintain their bureaucratic apparatus 
through procedures paid for by migrants and the political class is busy 
to defend agricultural entrepreneurs and to exploit their requests.

U.S.B. Social Federation Ragusa

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