At two federal detention centers in California, more than 50 immigrant workers are on strike over unsafe working conditions and low wages.
"Ana amfani da mu don aikinmu kuma ana biyan mu $1 kowace rana don tsaftace dakunan kwanan dalibai," in ji masu yajin aiki a wata cibiyar tsare mutane ta California a wani gidan yari. Sanarwar watan Yuni Gidan rediyon jama'a KQED ya karɓa.
Ma'aikatan da aka tsare, waɗanda aka fi sani da "'yan ɗora gidaje," suna shiga cikin shirin aikin sa kai da ake zaton yayin da suke kulle. Suna amfani da abin da suke samu wajen biyan makudan kudade na kiran waya da kayan aikin commissary kamar floss na hakori da tortillas.
"An tilasta musu yin hakan," in ji Alan Benjamin, wani wakili a Majalisar Kwadago ta San Francisco wanda ya ji kai tsaye daga bakin ma'aikatan da ke yajin aiki yayin da ya kira majalisar kwadago. “Ba na son rai ba ne; aiki ne na wajibi, ba tare da tsaftar muhalli da kayan aiki ba.”
Benjamin ya kara da cewa: “Tsarin yana da muni. "Mutane suna rashin lafiya, daya bayan daya."
Sashen Safety da Lafiya na Sana'a na California, ko Cal/OSHA, a halin yanzu yana binciken yanayin aiki a Cibiyar Kula da Shige da Fice ta Amurka (ICE) ta Golden State Annex US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), kusa da Bakersfield, inda ma'aikata ke yajin aiki tun ranar 6 ga Yuni.
The California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice along with other organizations filed a complaint with Cal/OSHA back in May on behalf of seven detainees. The complaint charges that detained workers live in unsafe conditions, with black mold patches crawling up shower walls and black fibrous dust particles emitted into the dormitories through HVAC vents. Last year California enacted a bill, SB 334, yana buƙatar masu zaman kansu na wuraren tsare bakin haure su bi duk aikin jiha da ka'idojin lafiya da aminci.
Kwayoyin cuta na iya haifar da asma, cututtuka na numfashi, da sauransu. "Ina jin tsoro saboda huhuna ya shafi," wani uban 'ya'ya hudu da ake tsare da shi a gidan yari na Golden State Annex. ya gaya KQED. "Kurar da ƙura suna da lahani ga lafiyarmu kuma abin takaici, muna cikin wurin da ake jin cewa ba su damu da lafiyarmu ba."
Wadanda ake tsare da su a cibiyar ICE ta biyu, Mesa Verde, sun shiga yajin aiki tun ranar 28 ga Afrilu. Kamfanin GEO Group ne ke gudanar da wuraren, daya daga cikin manyan kamfanonin gidajen yari masu riba a US GEO kuma yana gudanar da wurare a Burtaniya, Ostiraliya. da kuma Afirka ta Kudu. Kamfanin ya kawo dala biliyan 2.26 a cikin kudaden shiga na karshe shekara.
A DOLLAR A DAY
Raul is in his late 20s and has been detained at Golden State Annex since December 2021. [Raul is a pseudonym, which Labor Notes has used to protect the identity of a worker who may face retaliation while in detention for speaking with the press. —Editors] He came to the United States from Mexico at the age of five along with his parents and siblings. He told Bayanan Aiki daga bayan sandunan da ya ke bijirowa kan karancin albashin dala 1 a rana na sa'o'i takwas da kuma yanayin aiki mai hadari.
"Biyan dala 1-a-rana bai isa a ci abinci ba," in ji shi, ya kara da cewa abin da ya samu ya kai dala 5 a mako, wadanda ake amfani da su don kayan kwamitoci da kiran waya. "Kiran bidiyo yana kashe kimanin $2.50 na mintuna 15 kuma jakar wake kusan $2 ne."
Bincike mai shafuka 149 Rahoton ACLU ta buga a watan da ya gabata ya bayyana cewa ana biyan fursunoni mafi ƙarancin cents 13 a sa'a guda kuma matsakaicin matsakaicin cents 52 a sa'a don ayyuka kamar wanki ko tsaftace gidan wanka. Ayyuka a wuraren gyaran fuska mallakar jihar California na biyan tsakanin centi 35 a sa'a guda zuwa dala 1 a sa'a, a cewar rahoton.
Raul said the prices in immigration facilities are higher—and wages lower—than those of federally run prisons too.
A wata cibiyar tsare mutane ta ICE, Raul ya ce, ana biyan su dala 20 a wata yayin da a wani gidan yari da gwamnatin tarayya za ta iya biyan su kusan dala 200 a wata na aikinsu. "Suna da dillalai iri ɗaya na kwamishinan gidan yari da ICE, amma abinci ya fi arha a gidan yari," in ji shi. “Kwanin naman sa $4.50, kuma ga shi kusan dala 6. Muna son su rage farashin kwamishinoni.”
Lokacin da ma’aikatan da ake tsare da su suka nemi GEO Group da su rage farashin, Raul ya ce sun fara nuna yatsa da kuma sanya alhaki ga mai siyar da kayan. "Dukansu sun ci gaba da zargin juna," in ji Raul. "Ba sa ba mu amsa kai tsaye."
BOSS SAYS NO STRIKE
Mai magana da yawun kungiyar GEO ya musun ma'aikatan na yajin aiki. “Cibiyoyin Gudanar da Ayyukanmu na ICE, gami da Bayanin Jihar Golden, ana kiyaye su daidai da duk ƙa'idodin tsabtace tarayya, tare da ko ba tare da gudummawar mahalarta Shirin Ayyukan Sa-kai ba. Zabar kin shiga cikin shirin sa kai ba zai iya zama yajin aikin ba."
Raul ya ce akwai dakunan kwanan dalibai guda uku da ke shiga yajin aikin tare da kusan ma’aikata 27 da ake tsare da su kusan 50 zuwa 60 da ke tsaye tare da hadin kai. "Dukkanmu mun taru saboda wannan bai dace ba." Ya ce sun kai kokensu ga mai gadi da mataimakin mai gadi. “A yanzu haka ma’aikata 27 ne kawai wannan ke shafar, amma zai kai sama da 27 saboda mutane suna shiga nan. A cikin shekara guda ana tsare daruruwa ko ma dubbai.”
Fursunonin suna gwagwarmayar zama a Amurka ta hanyar neman mafaka ko biza ga wadanda wasu laifuffuka (Visa U Visa) ke fama da su. Wasu kuma suna neman taimako ta hanyar koke na dangi, in ji Lisa Knox, darektan shari'a a California Collaborative for Imgrant Justice.
Fursunonin sun fito ne daga kasashen Amurka ta tsakiya, Afirka, da Asiya. Yawancin su mazauna Los Angeles da Kern County ne na dogon lokaci, a cewar Benjamin.
Rashin ƙarancin albashi a wuraren da ake tsare da shi “yana rage albashin kowa,” in ji Benjamin. "A game da waɗannan wurare guda biyu, abin takaici ne kawai saboda sun kawar da ayyukan ma'aikatan tsaftacewa, kuma sun ce," da kyau, muna da aiki kyauta daga wadannan mutane. Su yi shi. Kuma [’yan fursunonin] suka ce, a’a, ba mu ba wurin aiki kyauta ba ne.”
A bara, wani alkali a wata kotun gundumar Amurka a Washington baki daya samu Kungiyar GEO da ke da alhakin keta dokokin mafi karancin albashi na jihar; Alkalin kotun ya ba da umarnin a mayar wa fursunoni 100,000 albashi. A watan da ya gabata, a ƙara an shigar da karar ne a kan kungiyar GEO a wata kotun tarayya da ke California tana mai cewa kamfanin mai riba ya kasa kiyaye mafi karancin ka'idojin tsafta kuma ana tilasta wa wadanda ake tsare da su aiki ko kuma a yi musu horo.
‘WE ALL SPEAK UP’
Yayin da ake ci gaba da yajin aikin, GEO na daukar fansa kan ma’aikatan da aka tsare. An sanya 'yan wasan biyu a gidan yari don yin zanga-zangar rukuni, a cewar Knox.
Haka kuma gidan yarin yana kayyade kwanakin da commissary ke kai kayan abinci da aka saya ga ma’aikatan da aka tsare. Raul ya ce: "Kuna siyan abincin ku kuma mai siyar yana zuwa ranar Laraba da Juma'a." "Yanzu, ranar Juma'a kawai suke zuwa suna gaya mana ba su san jadawalin ba."
Another common scare tactic is threatening detained workers about how their behavior while in lock up will look before a judge ruling on their pending immmigration cases. “The judge will find out you aren’t obeying rules and if you’re not obeying rules in here what will make them think you’ll obey rules out there?” said Raul, recounting a common fear-mongering tactic used by prison guards. To combat these tactics, he and the other detainees do everything as a group to ensure no one is singled out as a ring-leader. “We all speak up and when we speak to the officers we go as a group.”
A mai karɓar kudi an kaddamar da shi don tallafawa kokarin masu yajin aikin da kuma wani bude-wasika to Governor Newsom to pass the California Mandela Act, a lissafin cewa "yana bayyana ɗaurin kurkuku a matsayin kowane lokacin da ya wuce sa'o'i 17 a rana a cikin tantanin halitta."
ZNetwork ana samun kuɗi ta hanyar karimcin masu karatun sa.
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