The exploitation of this unfree migrant labour has made Greece the 8th biggest exporter of strawberries in the world. It has also enabled farmers to undertake a scale increase, expand agricultural activity by leasing underutilised farmlands, modernise farming, and market over 85 percent of their produce to wider markets such as Russia, Germany, Switzerland, and the Middle-East.
Strawberry workers are paid a daily wage of €23–25 for a workday lasting 10–12 hours. In 2013, protests by Bangladeshi workers against delayed wages led to Greek farmers shooting at them, earning the sobriquet of blood strawberries for Manolada strawberries. The workers won a landmark Human Rights case with the Greek state being forced to pay a total of €588,000 to 42 of them.
In March 2020, public announcements about COVID-19 restrictions through the distribution of informational leaflets in the Bangla language were given by local civic authorities in consultation with the Bangladeshi Consulate in Greece, and documented by Greek NGO Generation 2.0 for Rights, Equality & Diversity, or G2RED. Since 2017, G2RED’s “Manolada Watch” monitors migrant working and living conditions and advocates for their rights.
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