What It’s Like to Work for the Billionaire Nickel King

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An article dealing with the plight of Indonesians working in the nickel mining and processing industry.

Featured in this article is the Chinese firm Tsingshan, the top investor in Indonesia’s nickel processing operations, whose founder and chairman, Xiang Guangda, has accumulated a fortune worth an estimated $3.7 billion.

 

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Wherever the world turns there are "entrepreneurs" becoming rich by exploiting the poorest workers. And the greedy and corrupt will go to extraordinary lengths to squeeze potential out of employees and down to the last drop of blood. The scam centres in Myanmar are just one of the thousands of terrible examples around the world. In Australia now there is growing concern about a program drawing workers from the Pacific Islands to enter the agricultural centre which has employers screwing their workers and having them immediately deported if they speak up. One employee thought he would receive a wage of over $1000 and got just $340. 6 or 8 workers crammed into a single bedroom and being charged $117 each. Slavery continued in Australia in the pastoral industry until late in 1968 when Aborigines were granted equal wages. The majority of pastoralists employing Aboriginal stockmen then just pushed communities off the land which had been theirs for hundreds of years.

These days illegal refugees are the most easily trapped in slave like conditions.