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Article

7 May 2007

Author:
libcom.org

Congolese workers at a cement factory in Loutété are working in what they describe as slave conditions [Rep. of Congo]

Workers for Société nouvelle des ciments du Congo (Sonocc) [operated by China Road & Bridge], are being paid...£20...per month in spite of an agreement...promising them...£49...Chinese workers are allowed to use the company infirmary whereas Congolese workers are not, even in the case of workplace accidents. Workers are denied the right to form unions...