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Champagne’s sordid secret: the homeless and hungry migrants picking grapes for France’s luxury winemakers
The Guardian found workers (from west Africa and eastern Europe) in the town sleeping on the streets or in tents as the vineyards did not provide accommodation. Other workers staying in a nearby village said they had been forced to steal food from local people as they did not have anywhere to buy provisions.
“They look at them as machines and not humans.”
Unions said conditions were going backwards in the champagne sector and that labour providers offered poor conditions and low pay because of winegrowers’ insistence on cheap labour. But it is hard to hold specific champagne houses responsible for the exploitation of workers, says Blanco, because of a system of “Russian dolls” where you have “one company delegating to another and so on”.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/dec/23/france-champagne-growers-allegations-trafficking-court-case-vineyard-workers
The Guardian found workers (from west Africa and eastern Europe) in the town sleeping on the streets or in tents as the vineyards did not provide accommodation. Other workers staying in a nearby village said they had been forced to steal food from local people as they did not have anywhere to buy provisions.
“They look at them as machines and not humans.”
Unions said conditions were going backwards in the champagne sector and that labour providers offered poor conditions and low pay because of winegrowers’ insistence on cheap labour. But it is hard to hold specific champagne houses responsible for the exploitation of workers, says Blanco, because of a system of “Russian dolls” where you have “one company delegating to another and so on”.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/dec/23/france-champagne-growers-allegations-trafficking-court-case-vineyard-workers