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2022년 11월 18일

TUC

"I have nothing" - Workers' rights and the Qatar 2022 World Cup

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The progress that has been made was on the back of a willingness of the Qatari authorities to work with partners – principally the International Labour Organisation (ILO), but also representatives of the global unions, especially the ITUC, BWI (the global union for construction) and ITF (the international transport workers’ federation) - to understand what was wrong and develop solutions. For those of us who endured the years of Qatar’s embarrassing PR-strategy deflections, deployed in the vain hope that critics would move on, that cooperation felt miraculous...

Now, however, more than a touch of the old defensiveness appears to have reappeared. Last week, Qatar ruled out cooperating with a remedy fund proposed by an alliance of NGOs and unions. The fund, suggested as FIFA’s chance to provide restitution for some of the workers who suffered due to its failure to require even the barest minimum guarantee of workers’ rights from its Cup hosts, would primarily benefit those who worked in Qatar before the reforms were brought in. As such, you’d think the Qataris would recognise that, since they agreed the reforms were necessary, previous working conditions weren’t good enough...

The simple fact is that, as shown by the reports of workers themselves, migrant workers are still desperately exploited, and the system does not yet protect them. Qatar’s employers are out of control, using loopholes to get past the new laws, and Qatar has a responsibility to get a grip on them.

Too much of this lavish World Cup has been built on the backs of many people who have not only gained very little, but have been made actively poorer by the system.