Labour Minister Marina Calderone said
it was "everybody's aim to declare war on gangmastering' after
meeting unions and employers following the death of Satnam
Singh, an Indian farm labourer who died in Latina after being
abandoned with his arm amputated by a strawberry wrapping
machine.
The death of the Sikh farm hand has spurred outrage at the
gangmasters who left him for dead and calls for action to root
out the phenomenon, which is rife in Italy, especially in the
south of the country.
"We had a meeting with the representatives of the employers'
associations and trade unions of the agricultural world to
reason together about what has already been done by the
government and what will be done, but first of all to say
clearly, distinctly, and without any possibility of
misunderstanding, that the aim of everyone is to declare war on
gangmastering," Calderone told a press conference.
Latina, a Mussolini-founded new town south of Rome that is home
to thousands of immigrant farm workers, is to hold a day of
civic mourning when Singh is buried.
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