| Anti-Slavery have a petition to FIFA that some posters may approve of on 16:53 - Nov 18 with 1109 views | WeWereZombies |
I'll just bump this with the comment I should I have put in the OP - I had no idea that that the construction of the stadia for the Qatar World Cup had cost six and a half thousand construction workers.
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| Anti-Slavery have a petition to FIFA that some posters may approve of on 17:19 - Nov 18 with 1087 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Anti-Slavery have a petition to FIFA that some posters may approve of on 16:53 - Nov 18 by WeWereZombies |
I'll just bump this with the comment I should I have put in the OP - I had no idea that that the construction of the stadia for the Qatar World Cup had cost six and a half thousand construction workers.
Six Thousand
Five Hundred
Dead! |
That doesn’t seem to be the case. 6.5k have died since the World Cup was awarded, but only 37 are reported to have been working on the stadiums. Not clear how many died of construction linked to other infrastructure for the WC.
Still shocking and disgusting mind. H&S obviously not on the radar.
https://amp.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/23/revealed-migrant-work |  |
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| Anti-Slavery have a petition to FIFA that some posters may approve of on 18:23 - Nov 18 with 1065 views | HARRY10 |
| Anti-Slavery have a petition to FIFA that some posters may approve of on 17:19 - Nov 18 by Swansea_Blue |
That doesn’t seem to be the case. 6.5k have died since the World Cup was awarded, but only 37 are reported to have been working on the stadiums. Not clear how many died of construction linked to other infrastructure for the WC.
Still shocking and disgusting mind. H&S obviously not on the radar.
https://amp.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/23/revealed-migrant-work |
The problem being any injured worker would most likely be taken off the site, so his death would not be attributed to that stadium. I doubt there were ever any post mortems either.
However, this has only come under widespread focus because the world is currently looking at Qatar. This type and level of exploitation has been going on for years, and I doubt, but for a few, there will be any tears shed (or even thought for the family members of those who died) once the first ball is kicked.
Perhaps though as 'economic migrants' the Daily Mail and fellow scmbags from this country will boo, and whine about how these workers are ruining Qatar, invading the country, smelling of foreign food, wearing loud clothes in a built up area........ *
However, maybe fans could hold a minutes silence before each game - those workers and their families were/are fellow human beings as a well
'Seek not for whom the bell tolls etc..............."
https://www.sportingnews.com/us/soccer/news/how-many-workers-died-qatar-world-cu
* That's enough making fun of dumb righties, thank you [Post edited 18 Nov 2022 18:25]
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| Anti-Slavery have a petition to FIFA that some posters may approve of on 18:54 - Nov 18 with 1053 views | WeWereZombies |
| Anti-Slavery have a petition to FIFA that some posters may approve of on 17:19 - Nov 18 by Swansea_Blue |
That doesn’t seem to be the case. 6.5k have died since the World Cup was awarded, but only 37 are reported to have been working on the stadiums. Not clear how many died of construction linked to other infrastructure for the WC.
Still shocking and disgusting mind. H&S obviously not on the radar.
https://amp.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/23/revealed-migrant-work |
Have been looking into this a bit (and checked the Anti-Slavery link I posted, yes they say six and a half thousand) and it seems that thirty seven is the Qatari government figure and the original six and a half thousand statistic actually came from, or was amplified, by The Guardian. Unfortunately no one really knows, and it could quite easily be higher. For once I have not bothered to see what Al-Jazeera say but have gone French instead (apologies for this being a link to the English version.)
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2022/11/15/world-cup-2022-the-di [Post edited 18 Nov 2022 20:40]
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| Anti-Slavery have a petition to FIFA that some posters may approve of on 21:44 - Nov 18 with 1011 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Anti-Slavery have a petition to FIFA that some posters may approve of on 18:54 - Nov 18 by WeWereZombies |
Have been looking into this a bit (and checked the Anti-Slavery link I posted, yes they say six and a half thousand) and it seems that thirty seven is the Qatari government figure and the original six and a half thousand statistic actually came from, or was amplified, by The Guardian. Unfortunately no one really knows, and it could quite easily be higher. For once I have not bothered to see what Al-Jazeera say but have gone French instead (apologies for this being a link to the English version.)
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2022/11/15/world-cup-2022-the-di [Post edited 18 Nov 2022 20:40]
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Yeah, it’s not transparent is it. And that’s more proof of how awful the Qatari situation is. Whatever the member and wherever they were working, there can’t be any excuse for thousands of deaths of migrant workers.
I used to do a lot of work in a Nepal and India and the flights via the Middle East were full of itinerant workers. It’s a huge opportunity for people from poor areas of the subcontinent to support their family. But they’re exploited with little care for their welfare. (Not too far different from how some UK employers treat cheaper Eastern European workers, in principle if not deaths). | |
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| Anti-Slavery have a petition to FIFA that some posters may approve of on 21:48 - Nov 18 with 1008 views | J2BLUE |
Fifa probably can't wait for it to be over. |  |
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| Anti-Slavery have a petition to FIFA that some posters may approve of on 17:40 - Nov 19 with 897 views | HARRY10 |
As those migrant workers struggle with minimal protection or rights I wonder what they would think of the people of a country that voted to actually remove many of its workers rights and safeguards.
Brexit legislation would, if passed, allow workers rights covering health and safety law, annual leave and maternity rights to be scrapped - and not by Parliament either.
It is often said that righties do not like democracy. This is merely another case as the intent behind the bill is to -remove those decisions from the legislative, and hand them to the executive (ministers), rather than it being decided by Parliament.
You would have to be incredibly thick to vote for something that is against your interest. Sadly they were/still are - brexiters.
Though the support for this brexit idiocy has been consistently falling. It's now less than a third (32%) who think brexit was a good idea, it may be too late. | | | |
| Anti-Slavery have a petition to FIFA that some posters may approve of on 17:57 - Nov 19 with 882 views | Plums |
| Anti-Slavery have a petition to FIFA that some posters may approve of on 16:53 - Nov 18 by WeWereZombies |
I'll just bump this with the comment I should I have put in the OP - I had no idea that that the construction of the stadia for the Qatar World Cup had cost six and a half thousand construction workers.
Six Thousand
Five Hundred
Dead! |
Signed. I've posted this a few times. I saw it in 2018 and decided there and then that I wanted nothing to do with this world cup.
http://www.theworkerscupfilm.com/ [Post edited 19 Nov 2022 17:59]
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