Borealis yard, a contractor, had a poor repute in Sweden – Muricas News

It was found in July that the Italian contractor Irem could have been financially abusing 174 staff at a Borealis building web site within the port of Antwerp. Irem disputes these costs. Irem, nevertheless, has been been uncovered in an identical method earlier than. Based on a Monday article in Gazet van Antwerpen, 200 Thai staff went on strike in Sweden in 2005 after the employer allegedly demanded that they signal faux declarations.

A witness who labored for Irem on the time mentioned that as a result of a scarcity of room, the Thai staff slept and lived on a ship given by Irem. The supply claimed that “the Thais lived in considerably worse situations than nearly all of European staff.”

The Thai laborers had already been seduced into touring to Europe at that time by enticing guarantees. Even the phrases of employment have been outlined by Irem and his subcontractors in a contract with the Swedish building union Byggnads. The Thai would obtain a month-to-month wage of 20,900 Swedish crowns (round $2,000; EUR). They have been truly solely paid 6,000 crowns (578 euros).

A number of Swedish media shops reported that the Thai subcontractor would have exerted stress on staff to certify in writing that they'd certainly obtained their wages as agreed. 4 workers who refused to conform have been let go. Then a violent strike began. The episode, in response to the newspaper, bears exceptional resemblances to the predicament of Ukrainian workers of Irem at Borealis.