In Vienna, university students confronted with the Italian trade union on the subjects of illegal hiring
It was Jean-René Bilongo of the National Flai-CGIL who spoke at the seminar started by the Law School of the Viennese University. A meeting to discuss the exploitation of labor in agriculture and how to fight it
For Alexander Teutsch, a researcher at the University of Vienna, it is important to have Jean-René Bilongo of the National Flai-Cgil in the chair to speak to students and professors about labor exploitation in agriculture. The course on migration and trafficking (“Course on migration and human trafficking”) of the Faculty of Law of the Austrian university, directed by the academic Lena Foljanty, has developed with twelve meetings, speakers from different countries, representatives of associations, politicians, to address in its facets a complex and very current issue, which requires urgent responses. There has been talk of models of development, exclusion and inclusion, of modern forms of slavery. Problems that, just to give an example, will forcefully re-emerge on the occasion of the world neighbors in Qatar. Agreements between states on the right to asylum were naturally at the center of the study days.
Bilongo also intervened as President of the Placido Rizzotto Observatory, which publishes the “Relationship agromafia and corporal “, which photographs the pitfalls that disfigure work in the primary sector. That of the University of Vienna was a very welcome invitation from the Fla-CGIL, the recognition of the commitment it has put in place for years against exploitation and illegal hiring, authentic plagues that damage letrics and workers, but determine conditions of unhealthy competition. with companies that respect the contract.
The narrative that considers the hiring as a phenomenon no longer current, or relegated only to the South of Italy has been denied and dismantled piece by piece by Flai-CGIL. The data of the work exploited in the primary sector, and not only, are merciless, they tell of how there is so much to do to help the many, too many who do not have the opportunity to defend themselves, immigrants but also Italians who end up in the hands of unscrupulous corporals per day rate. So in the Faculty of Law of Vienna there was also talk of the law 199 of 2016, strongly desired by the union precisely to offer an incisive tool to fight against the exploitation of labor. During the lessons, students and professors take notes, ask questions, begin to understand realities that little or nothing was known about. The strong denunciation of exploitation is added to the popular nature of the lessons, in a horizon that places decent work in eighth place among the 17 objectives of the United Nations 2030 Agenda.