(en) Germany, FAU DIREKTE AKTION #216 ? No trip to paradise - Labor migration, exploitation and bad jobs in Europe crisis (de)

The Internet mail order Amazon an exercise in damage limitation. Since mid-February, 
reports on the exploitation of the special working there a temp agency migrant workers 
were known, the group fired the security company HESS, whose staff was rumored in a 
television report contacts in the right scene. Worried about their reputation security 
company immediately denied. It is different with the normal exploitation of the crisis in 
Europe. It is reported in the TV report that temporary workers from Spain, who worked in 
the Amazon fulfillment center in Bad Hersfeld for the holiday season, were brought in 
close communal living quarters. There they were allegedly controlled by the talk comers 
watch around the clock. In the declaration, the security firm says to "use in temporary 
accommodation": "The reason for appointing us as security firm is that the simultaneous 
accommodation of a larger number of people who are not familiar with each other, there is 
considerable potential for conflict."

The fact that in the 21 Century wage earners have to live in cramped accommodation is not 
perceived as a social scandal. Such horrific visions of the songwriter Franz Ferdinand 30 
years ago represented as a negative vision of the capitalist society of the future in a 
song, "For a good WORKING he pulls for miles", it says in one line. Today one could say 
not only the example of Amazon: For a lousy job agency in Europe, many people are moving 
to the crisis for miles.

Even the recruitment of temporary workers from all over Europe is a result of much of 
Germany initiated austerity programs. They led to a massive review in the countries of the 
European periphery and the impoverishment of large segments of the population. Such 
conditions are the basis on which people labor under almost any circumstances and are 
prepared in close community lodging, guarded by a security firm, with or without the right 
contacts to spend their "free time". The policy will contribute significantly to this by 
ensuring that unemployed EU citizens often no ALG2 is granted. In Berlin alone, now living 
over 174,000 EU citizens. Many are poorly paid, and some even did not. So have two 
colleagues who have in February and March 2012 for the bucket-based life (near Magdeburg) 
stand construction company "Fair Store" worked, pointing to the FAU Berlin. They were used 
as self-employed to be held in Berlin Fairs "Fruit Logistica" and "ITB" and are still 
waiting for their payment. With an online petition trying to FAU to increase pressure on 
the company. There the immediate disbursement of withheld wages of the two, and the 
conversion of the false self are required in socially insured jobs.

Peter Nowak