“I will never go back to Germany, not even for a holiday,” Mariana Costea, a seasonal worker from Romania, told DW. She spent two months toiling away on a Bavarian farm until she decided that was all she could take. Mariana was forced to work unpaid overtime, had to sleep in filthy dorms, and was at risk of contracting the coronavirus — as no safety precautions were in place. “I could not accept that eight of us had to share one bedroom and bathroom,” she recalls. To make matters worse, 30 seasonal workers were expected to share a single bathroom. Every morning 14 or 15 of them would pile into a minivan with just eight seats to be driven out to work on the fields. In the evenings, the Eastern Europeans would be shuttled back to their overcrowded accommodation. Costea says those in charge made no effort to enforce social distancing and other precautions to prevent them from contracting the coronavirus. German slaughterhouses face scrutiny after COVID-19 outbreaks We can no longer turn a blind eye Costea is one of many Eastern Europeans seasonal workers who have recently spoke out about the catastrophic working and living conditions they have endured in… Read full this story
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