South Africa’s Vineyard Workers Are Ripe for Exploitation (Relevé sur le net)
http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/11870/no_warm_buzz_for_exploited_south_african_vineyard_workers
Many a business deal, romantic evening or other happy moments around the world have been sweetened by South African wine.
But as a new Human Rights Watch report called “Ripe for Abuse” details, the mostly black and poor workers who tend and harvest grapes for mostly white-owned wineries in South Africa’s fertile Western Cape live and work in horrendous and exploitative conditions. The report says vineyard workers “are among the most vulnerable people in South African society: working long hours in harsh weather conditions, often without access to toilets or drinking water... [T]hey earn among the lowest wages in South Africa, and are often denied benefits to which they are legally entitled.” (...)