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- The Chinese government / Chinese tire factory is building a tire manufacturing plant in Serbia.
- Instead of employing local people, they are using Vietnamese to build the factory.
- The Vietnamese workers (about 500) are treated horribly. Their passports have been taken, so they can not leave. They have only been paid once since May. They are shivering and starving in the barracks they are housed in. They sleep on bunk beds with no mattresses. They received no medical care even when some developed Covid-19 like symptons.
- Human rights groups / NGO have been denied access to the workers.
- Human rights groups in Serbia say the Vietnamese workers could be victims of human trafficking and even slavery
- The workers are trying to return to Vietname but can't without the Chinese employer returning their passports
- The Chinese tire company says it's not their fault, it is the fault of Vietnamese job agencies.
- The top Serbian authorities are trying to downplay the situation and blame it on foreign anti Chinese interests. Those Serbian officials who did speak out on the inhumane conditions still would not call out the Chinese company
- The Chinese tire company is also accused of violating Serbian enviromental regulations.
- Chinese companies have also been accused of human rights violations when they sent Chinese miners to work a copper mine in Eastern Serbia
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Associated Press and others are reporting:
Vietnamese workers at Chinese factory in Serbia cry for help
ZRENJANIN, Serbia (AP) — They are shivering in barracks without heat, going hungry and have no money. They say their passports have been taken by their Chinese employer and that they are now stuck in a grim plainland in Serbia with no help from local authorities.
https://apnews.com/article/business-china-europe-serbia-pollution-67431ad5f51b553357911dea24c70359
Miamo Herald sources AP
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article255986562.html
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This is soo typical of China / Chinese companies and their infrastructure funding in the developing world and Eastern Europe. They barely use local labor, always using Chinese or foreign labor. They did the same thing in Montenegro where a Chinese company is building a road and bridge project. They did the same thing in Africa and Sri Lanka.
Montenegro mortgaged itself to China. Now it wants Europe’s help to cut it free.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...a745b4-9ebb-11eb-b2f5-7d2f0182750d_story.html
This is also very similar to how the Gulf Arab countries operate: they deceive poor Asian laborers into coming there to build stuff, then take their passports, don't pay them and treat them inhumanely. It's a form of slavery.
- Instead of employing local people, they are using Vietnamese to build the factory.
- The Vietnamese workers (about 500) are treated horribly. Their passports have been taken, so they can not leave. They have only been paid once since May. They are shivering and starving in the barracks they are housed in. They sleep on bunk beds with no mattresses. They received no medical care even when some developed Covid-19 like symptons.
- Human rights groups / NGO have been denied access to the workers.
- Human rights groups in Serbia say the Vietnamese workers could be victims of human trafficking and even slavery
- The workers are trying to return to Vietname but can't without the Chinese employer returning their passports
- The Chinese tire company says it's not their fault, it is the fault of Vietnamese job agencies.
- The top Serbian authorities are trying to downplay the situation and blame it on foreign anti Chinese interests. Those Serbian officials who did speak out on the inhumane conditions still would not call out the Chinese company
- The Chinese tire company is also accused of violating Serbian enviromental regulations.
- Chinese companies have also been accused of human rights violations when they sent Chinese miners to work a copper mine in Eastern Serbia
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Associated Press and others are reporting:
Vietnamese workers at Chinese factory in Serbia cry for help
ZRENJANIN, Serbia (AP) — They are shivering in barracks without heat, going hungry and have no money. They say their passports have been taken by their Chinese employer and that they are now stuck in a grim plainland in Serbia with no help from local authorities.
https://apnews.com/article/business-china-europe-serbia-pollution-67431ad5f51b553357911dea24c70359
Miamo Herald sources AP
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article255986562.html
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This is soo typical of China / Chinese companies and their infrastructure funding in the developing world and Eastern Europe. They barely use local labor, always using Chinese or foreign labor. They did the same thing in Montenegro where a Chinese company is building a road and bridge project. They did the same thing in Africa and Sri Lanka.
Montenegro mortgaged itself to China. Now it wants Europe’s help to cut it free.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...a745b4-9ebb-11eb-b2f5-7d2f0182750d_story.html
This is also very similar to how the Gulf Arab countries operate: they deceive poor Asian laborers into coming there to build stuff, then take their passports, don't pay them and treat them inhumanely. It's a form of slavery.
