Compte rendu cueilleurs de fruits mexicains

Eléa DE VALLON GPME 2 classe 1

Compte rendu Anglais

Mexico’s fruit pickers demand an end to “modern slavery”

It is an AFP report, titled "Mexican fruit pickers demand an end to 'modern slavery'".

this report therefore concerns farm workers in Mexico and their farms.

Indeed, the report begins by telling us that it is 5:00 a.m. and that like thousands of agricultural workers, in a Mexican town called San Canton,

Paulino Jose is starting a long day at the job although he has worked in the fields of the state of Baja California for more than 3 decades.

We are also told that the man is 72 years old and that he is not ready to retire like many fruit pickers like him.

We are also told that mainly indigenous men and women of the impoverished state and that they only earn 150 pesos, that is to say a little more than 8 dollars a day.

Man says saving has never been an option.

He also explains to us that life is expensive, he doesn’t drink or smoke, but he still cannot make ends meet.

We also learn that every day, around 80,000 pickers break their backs in sweat and swallow earth while carrying their heavy crates, all for a meager salary.

most of them do not have a contract or social security.

Strawberry pickers can earn up to $ 2 a day, some say the work will kill them before they can stop.

Last March, for the first time, in Mexico, thousands of farm workers went on strike to demand better working conditions, although the 15% wage increase is still not enough to cover their labor costs. subsistence.

one of the producers explains that if this continues, he will no longer be able to pay the pickers because their demand for wages is too high.

some speak of modern slavery and those Mexican workers are not ready to emerge from poverty.

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