Jim Murphy MP, Labour’s Shadow International Development Secretary, responding to today’s reports of the exploitation of migrant workers in the shrimp supply chain, said:
“The brutal abuse of migrant labour in the name of profit and cheaper food has to stop.
“These revelations prove once again that fighting the exploitation of migrant workers is a vital to modern day development. Everyone should be entitled to decent jobs, under decent conditions for decent pay wherever they are.
“That’s why DFID under Labour will make fighting for workers’ rights a key component of our Department for International Development. So in government, Labour will reverse this government’s decision to withdraw funding from the ILO and we will work with our international partners like the ITUC to ensure that those who have the will to work hard, can have the power to get on.”
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