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17 August 2007

Agricultural worker developments - preview
For some time I have been concerned at the exploitation of foreign workers taking place in this area of Sussex
  • There was a case a couple of years ago of a Littlehampton man who was bringing foreign workers to the area and hiring them out as farm labourers for a wage substantially below the union rate for agricultural workers


  • I was also concerned to hear that those workers were living in multi-occupied houses and that they were also being exploited by paying high rents for the privilege of living in overcrowded accommodation
  • I took this up with a local newspaper, the Littlehampton Gazette, and it received wide publicity in this area
  • My idea was that it might frighten off the people responsible for and involved in this exploitation

  • Stan Nattrass

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