DECLARATION OF SUPPORT WORKERS "RENOVATION" From Kočevje
Koper, 03.11.2010
problem these workers is not isolated and can not be solved by granting one-off social assistance and donations from trade unions, self-promotional. The state must ensure the functioning of all areas of life for all residents. The exploitation of subordinate sections of the population is prosecuted by a State as bereft and destitute have no assets and probably not for advanced knowledge of legal procedures.
Calling all responsible institutions to reimburse injured workers dignity, against the perpetrators of the damage and take appropriate steps, not least, the system regulate the equality of all people who reside in the Republic so that they have equal opportunities to live, work, earnings, education and so on.
underappreciated work of aliens allows capitalists advantage of unfair competition. Thus profiterji threaten their citizens and workers with the threat of cheaper labor providers hinder the improvement of the situation. All people should have the same rights and opportunities.
Austrian animal rights movement has succeeded in a difficult decade of strong reform legislation to protect animals - to achieve the ban on breeding animals for fur ban circuses that include wild animals, a ban on carrying out experiments on apes, a ban on battery hen farming and the introduction of rabbits and the Institute of Animal Defenders. But with any campaign, demonstration, media appearance, with each new change in the law, the friction between the livestock industry and policy on the one hand, and increasingly successful activists on the other, to grow. Established a special investigative team SOKO
that in the next 12 months carried out an extensive spying operation in order to obtain evidence against the activists. This was followed by tapping phones of leading activists, read their private e-mails, including those who were several years old. When you did not find any incriminating evidence, was followed by infiltration of spies and Planting cameras and microphones in cars, offices and private homes. Several million wasted on the police investigation, but without success. Therefore, the activists deal with physically. 21. May 2008 at 6.00 am With illegal investigative methods stormed the premises of the Austrian animal rights organizations and the housing 10 s activists. They are directed by firearms in the head was thrown out of bed, seized their phones and computers, and being taken into custody. The material, computers, books, evidence of the exploitation of animals have been illegally seized in the office organizationVerein gegen Tierfabriken and their storage. Activists have completed the three-month detention without evidence that they committed any crime. By contrast, received only an indictment, which describes their activism to change the laws and business policies.
evidence did not exist. Public pressure has narščal. Responded to the organizations that have condemned such conduct of the authorities. But he was deaf to all this. The prosecution did not odnehalo. On the day he brought unclear
forumlacijo Article 278a of the Austrian Penal Code, which is used to prosecute organized crime and thus de facto accepted the concept of Orwell thought crime (
). "Criminal thinking" activists have used as evidence of their alleged membership of a criminal organization and that the alleged affiliation to prove that their legal action to protect animals is a criminal. In a mockery of its own constitution, so any organizing demonstrations explicitly presented as one such criminal acts. It is evident by their rules the only legitimate: I can not see, not hear, do not think I do not speak.
So it is no longer just for the Criminalization of individuals or groups who fight against exploitation, but kriminializirana the thought, idea, desire for an egalitarian society.
not an isolated case. Many activists are currently in prison, others are facing trial. And all those who, because of false charges and loud warning, unfortunately, no longer with us.
It is a violation of basic human rights, but by no means should we forget what all these activists, all of these activists and warned against what they fought / e. and what they believed / e. The fact that animals are not things. The fact that they are conscious beings who have the right not to be treated as property! And if we believe in this right, then let's start with veganstvu. Today!
Solidarity is a weapon!
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An appeal to the government of the Republic of Slovenia and Ivan Svetlik, minister of Labour, Family and Social Affairs, to take responsibility for the ruthless exploitation and abuse of migrant workers and a call for immediate involvement in the resolution of the Kočevje hunger strikers' problematic. 
Their stories are unbelievable.The last time they received any pay from the contractor was in 2008, however they never received proper pay statements. Occasionaly they were given 30, 10 or even as little as 3 euro by the employer in cash. The employer has not paid the social security costs for the workers either. Therefore the workers on hunger strike demand an immediate payment of everything Perkovič owns them.
This is one of the many situations of distress 10% of the working population of the Republic of Slovenia is subject to. The question is raised, how can such extreme forms exploitation and abuse even be possible in a so-called welfare state with the rule of law. And why is it that the only way to raise public awarness and bring attention to the insufficient activity of the welfare institutions is by exposing bodies to hunger and cold.When asked the logical question, why they continued working for a year and a half despite ever getting paid, the workers on hunger strike answer, that a cruel institutionalised system of creating dependancy on employers exsists in the background. A worker needs to work for the same employer for an uninterrupted period of two years in order to be able to apply for a personal work permit that is valid for 3 years. This is their only possibility to change the employer. The current work permit regime enables that the employers to exploit migrant workers for a minimum of two years, however the amount of time is often even larger due to a specific status of different types of work permits. All this enables the employer to exploit the workers and not respect their rights. We would like to stress that obtaining a personal work permit does not level a migrant worker with all the other workers. A personal work permit comes with a residence permit, however, the time of validity of that residence permit is contigent on the duration of contract of employment. Therefore, the dependency of workers on their employer continues even after a personal work permit has been obtained.
The workers on hunger strike in Kočevje and the analysis of their situation clearly show, that the system of dependancy that RS establishes though the current regime of migrant work, contributes to utmost ways of exploitation and abuse.What is more, it enables general corruption. It is scandalous, that the workers were cheated while working on major construction projects,which were all financed with public money, from budgets of different minicipalities as well as EU funds. It is high time that all those responsible for the situation, namely the government of the Republic of Slovenia and more specifically the Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs, take the responsibility for the distress of the workers on hunger strikes. Extreme formsof exploitation of migrant work force and the corruption created by the politics of migration in the Republic of Slovenia.
We demand that:
1.the Ministry of labour, family and social affairs gets actively involved in the resolution of the dramatic situation of the workers on hunger strike in Kočevje. First step would be to invite all of them to the Ministry for a talk, the result of which should be an immediate termination of all reasons for continuation with hunger strike;
2.the Ministry and the government of RS take the responsibility for establishing and perpetuating the general system of exploitation of migrants, also by paying the workers on hunger strike the salaries they are owned to by the contractor Perkovič;3.the Ministry and the government of RS begin with the proceedures to amend the Employment and Work of Aliens Act as well as Aliens Act. The amendments must abolish the system of dependancy of workers on employers and enable an actual equality of migrant workers.
Minister Svetlik, it is time, that you take the responsibility for the ruthless exploitation of migrant workers and corruption, which is enabled by the politic of migration in RS. It is not possible to tolerate the system of apartheid in the 21st century!
PROTEST MARCH: 9. 3. 2010, 12:00, Ministery of labour, Kotnikova 5, Ljubljana Petition and VIDEOS1
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Video interview najdedte here. soc.center.rog @ gmail.com
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