Gangmasters need tighter controls – Church Times

November 2009

Migrant workers are still struggling in subhuman conditions, says Richard Harries. When 23 Chinese cockle-pickers were drowned in Morecambe Bay in February 2004, the country was alerted to the existence of gangmasters. These gangmasters recruited vulnerable workers - mainly migrants, both legal and illegal - with great scope for abuse...

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