Sunday, November 30, 2014

Modern day slaves in Britain

An official now says there could be as many as 13,000 people who live functionally as slaves in modern Britain. It's a figure four times that of previous estimates. These include domestic workers, women forced into prostitution, as well as field, factory and fishing boat workers, according to the UK Telegraph.

4 comments:

Jeff Wood said...

I shouldn't take that figure too seriously: the Home Office seem to have found it in their rear end.

Mind you, it is known that rich Arabs in London treat their servants quite oppressively. In Britain, "slavery" is a vibrancy thing.

Anonymous said...

And I would wager we have the same thing here in the US....under the H1B Visa program wherein foreign nationals are brought into this country (usually by foreign national owners of staffing companies). They are offered a position at a rate 1/3rd the cost of US workers and if for some reason the position is put on hold or cancelled, the worker is left to rot with no income and at the mercy of the employer (aka "master") for subsistence. Further, the employer can "renegotiate" the salary/pay rate once the person is here in the US on a visa that the employer is sponsoring. Without that sponsorship, they are here illegally or can be deported at the whim of the employer. The employers can essentially abuse the employee in any way they wish and if the employee complains, he's deported or worse.

Slavery has not left us....and the H1B Visa system is wrought with abuse.

Anonymous said...

It is said that slaves have but one obligation - slaughtering their masters ...

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FedUp said...

I thought the UK government owned 64 million subjects.