Africa-Press – Cape verde. The violation of workers’ human rights has been constantly addressed by the country’s unions. The National Union of Workers of Cape Verde-Central Sindical (UNTC-CS), considered the largest in the country, recently denounced what it considers to be cases of forced labor in Cape Verde.
These denunciations are also corroborated by the Union of the General Food Industry, Civil Construction and Related Products (SIACSA), headquartered in Praia, and by the Free Union of Workers of Santo Antão.
From the perspective of the UNTC-CS, there are workers obliged to work overtime without compensation in terms of remuneration, as well as the exploitation of children and adolescents for commercial purposes.
SIACSA draws attention to low salaries in the civil service
SIACSA, on the other hand, points to problems with respect to decent work in the country and cites low wages in the civil service and hygiene, health and safety conditions at work that “leave something to be desired”.
“Decent work is not going out on the street and seeing children working, it is not going to a company and seeing that wages are paid below the living wage, the State of Cape Verde itself does that, it is not seeing a person not taking a vacation… ”, exemplifies Gilberto Lima.
Workers in the East Plateau receive less than 230 escudos per day
In Santo Antão, the Free Trade Union of Workers on that island considers the state of human rights for workers on the island to be “highly negative” and “beyond expectations” of Cape Verdeans.
He cites, for example, workers without civil protection, wages below what is permitted by law, as is the case of workers in the forestry perimeter of the East Plateau who work for less than 230 escudos a day. A situation that, according to Carlos Bartolomeu, has allowed the spread of extreme poverty in the country.
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