トームさんのインスタグラム写真 - (トームInstagram)「Report reveals human rights violations, modern-day slavery conditions for agricultural workers in Mexico . 01/02/15 (written by otawka) — The Los Angeles Times recently released an extensive report revealing the poor conditions for thousands of agricultural workers in Mexico, addressing widespread issues of modern day slavery and child labor law violations. The four-part article by Richard Marosi began after several workers escaped from a Bioparques del Occidentefarm back in June 2013, alerting authorities to the harsh living conditions, and in some cases instances of enslavement or forced labor experienced by the workers. The report details findings based on an 18-month investigation of such mega-farms throughout nine Mexican states—farms that are the cornerstone of Mexico’s growing agribusiness whose exports to the United States reached $7.6 billion in the last decade. Corporations like Bioparques and Rene Produce are among those investigated, and also those that sell to the popular U.S. retailers like Walmart, Target, Whole Foods, Albertsons, and Safeway. Many of the workers that work on these mega-farms are temporary, migrant workers, and mostly come from rural and indigenous communities, often recruited in their hometowns by contractors that work for the companies. The mega-farms, continues the report, tend to be set up similar to work camps with guards and barbwire fencing around the perimeters. Workers earn on average $8 to $12 a day and, although illegal, many camps withhold wages to prevent workers from leaving during the peak of the season when they need workers most. Because of inflated prices at company stores, workers then go into debt purchasing basic goods and food. The workers are often malnourished, with limited to no access to healthcare and live in structures that resemble slave quarters: concrete buildings infested with bed bugs, rodents, or scorpions, and beds made of cardboard or plastic crates. . In the more extreme cases, workers are prohibited from leaving the camps, and face beatings and death threats if they attempt. . #LaborDay」9月8日 8時44分