Building workers recruited by a German recruitment agency BS Rugovac Bau Gmbh have been exploited on a Dutch building site. They received wages below the legal minimum, contracts in a language they didn’t understand and were treated with blackmail tactics to keep them quiet. After they contacted the Spanish embassy the local branch of trade union FNV Bouw managed to get their hourly wages up from €6 to the legal minimum of €8 an hour.
English: http://www.thelocal.es/20140414/spanish-builders-conditions ...
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