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Soccer World Cup 2010 Worker Struggles


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Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:09:00

The 2010 Football (Soccer) World Cup will be held in South Africa. Workers who are building the Stadium are demanding better pay and have begun an ‘illegal strike’.

They are currently being paid builders’ wages rather than ‘engineering’ wages, which is having their wages commensurate with other stadium workers increasing their wages from R10 per hour to R19 per hour.

 

The South African Construction firms have a deadline in building the stadium and have now threatened to terminate the workers if they continue the work stoppage.  According to Basil Read the Construction firm this is the third illegal strike taken against them in 2008. 

 

In March 2008, the Vice-President of South Africa’s biggest builders’ union with 280,000 members held a meeting with FIFA president Joseph Blatter to present to him the “Fair Games – Fair Play: humane working conditions” campaign.”  He was quoted as saying “"The workers, especially those labouring on the construction sites, need a wage that will enable them to live, enjoy a safe and healthy workplace and social benefits as well. We have no doubt that FIFA can help significantly to reach this goal."  Furthermore the FIFA website states that “Fortunately, no fatal accidents have occurred to date during the building of the World Cup stadiums.”  Less than a month after this the workers began their strike.  It is clear that workers are the only ones who direct their own struggles and that no matter what the Union’s assert; again it is the workers who know what they need and can truly engage in a struggle for decent living wages and working conditions.

 

 




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