A farm which supplies the largest retail chains in the UK is actually a ghetto where Romanian workers are exploited like slaves. People found there were living and working in critical conditions.
A story recorded with a hidden camera by the journalists from the British Channel Four revealed the suffering and fear Romanians live in.
They are being terrorized by their bosses. They are horrified by the accommodation conditions. And ashamed; ashamed of being treated like slaves and ashamed to tell their families the truth. They say to them that they are doing well on this farm in the UK.
The footage with a hidden camera taken by a journalist who poses as a worker reveals a working day for the Romanian workers from this farm in Kent. People need to pack 5 packages of fruit per minute. They endure insults and threats to take a break.
When their shift is over, another ordeal starts. A Romanian couple filmed with the mobile phone how the trailer presented as their accommodation premises looked like.
Romanians pay to live there! They pay their employer nearly 50 per day.
In another trailer park that belongs to the same company, other Romanians suffer.
They do not have the courage to speak, they do not have the courage to leave. They know that any of them can be replaced in a second. The Pro Force recruitment firm, which brought them here, would always deliver cannon fodder.
After broadcasting the report on Channel Four, store chains that sell packaged fruit from that slavery farm announced they would investigate the case.
Source: Observator.tv