#personnel

London 2012 Olympics: 10 to a room and 1 shower for 75 people: Inside the ’slum’ camp for Olympic cleaners | Mail Online
►http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2174034/London-2012-Olympics-10-room-1-shower-75-people-Inside-slum-camp-Olympi

Cleaners at the Olympic Park are being housed ten to a room at a huge temporary compound.
The campsite in East London, hidden from public view, has 25 people sharing each toilet and 75 to each shower.
They sleep in portable cabins, some of which have been leaking in the rain.

And the bad weather has left the site flooded with stagnant water, forcing them to use abandoned crates as makeshift ‘stepping stones’ to move around the site.

Hundreds have come from abroad to work at the Olympics despite promises that the jobs would go to Londoners.

On arrival, some were horrified to be told there was no work for two weeks. But despite this, they were made to pay the cleaning company £18 a day in ‘rent’ to sleep in the overcrowded metal cabins, which works out at more than £550 a month.

Others who had come to the UK desperate for the jobs turned back, describing the camp as ‘horrible’, with showers and toilets ‘filthy’ from over-use.

#JO #personnels_d'entretien #exploitation #sanitaire

Le #développement #personnel ou la #quête du « #mieux-être ».

http://goo.gl/pGkeh

#Rencontre avec #JulienChesneau, #coach #émotionnel. #INTERVIEW

Plus qu’un phénomène de mode, le développement personnel est devenu en une décennie un véritable mouvement de société. Les entreprises et les salariés sont demandeurs de formation développement personnel, les consultants et coaches qui proposent ces formations se multiplient. Et le phénomène ne s’arrête pas au seuil de l’entreprise : la demande en développement personnel touche aussi les particuliers.

The U.S. Military’s “Third-Country Nationals” : The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/06/06/110606fa_fact_stillman?currentPage=all

The expansion of private-security contractors in #Iraq and #Afghanistan is well known. But armed security #personnel account for only about sixteen per cent of the over-all contracting force. The vast majority—more than sixty per cent of the total in Iraq—aren’t hired guns but hired hands. These workers, primarily from South Asia and Africa, often live in barbed-wire compounds on U.S. bases, eat at meagre chow halls, and host dance parties featuring Nepalese romance ballads and Ugandan church songs. A large number are employed by fly-by-night subcontractors who are financed by the American taxpayer but who often operate outside the law.

The wars’ foreign workers are known, in military parlance, as “third-country nationals,” or T.C.N.s. Many of them recount having been robbed of wages, injured without compensation, subjected to sexual assault, and held in conditions resembling indentured servitude by their subcontractor bosses.

#femmes #armée #viol #travail #émeutes #cdp