Shame on Germany, shame on the EU

By Constantin Radut
For several weeks, as we pointed out, Romanians have become a second-hand commodity on the German labor market. Not for now, but for many years. The Coronavirus crisis quickly revealed the illegal businesses of companies in Germany that exploit workers in Romania, but also in many other Eastern European countries, in so-called seasonal agricultural works.
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, German agricultural associations have sounded the alarm that they cannot take advantage of the cheap labor of Eastern workers to capitalize on asparagus or seasonal fruit. The Germans, with headaches and leg pains, cannot do such works because they are degrading to them. Those in the East are poorer and sacrifice themselves. Even if they get the pandemic virus. Which is what happened.
Not anyway, but only after Romanian workers, and probably from other countries, died or could no longer work.
After the asparagus crisis came the crisis of workers in German slaughterhouses.
The newspaper Der Spiegel shows that about 80% of the workforce in German slaughterhouses comes from Eastern Europe. There are contract workers who work through intermediaries, companies in Germany or Eastern countries. German companies thus avoid any legal obligation to Eastern workers. It is a violation of EU labor law and a blatant disgrace to German legality and discipline.
That’s not all. For animal slaughtering companies such as Westfleisch, Vion or T