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Migrant farm workers retain just 8% of retail price of produce, report says
The UK soft fruit sector employs 29,000 seasonal workers each growing season - 99% of whom come from overseas...
But a new report by farm union the Landworkers’ Alliance, the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, New Economics Foundation, Focus on Labour Exploitation and Sustain, focuses on the drivers of exploitation in the scheme.
It reveals that migrant seasonal workers picking soft fruit retain, on average, just 7.6% of the total retail price of the produce - less than 18p per £2.30 punnet of strawberries.
Furthermore, it outlines how workers who have to pay illegal broker fees - money paid by migrant workers to recruitment agencies in their home countries - can result in negative earnings...