The voice of a migrant

Australia is a white settler state, with a small population that exercises a labour monopoly over the stolen resources of a whole continent.
In a world with 6 1/2 billion people.
 It has always jealously guarded that labour and property monopoly over Australia.
 Resentment against migrants 'stealing our jobs" is the traditional response to immigrants. As for sympathy for migrant workers problems from white Australia, its always been "speak English you Wog". I shout so you can understand right!
Migrants are often the most left because they are the most exploited and can be put to work doing the 'dirty work".
 See amerikkka, where the U$ wouldn't function profitably without imported cheap labour, legalised and illegal doing a lot of the productive work.

Never mind. The problem of migrants  "stealing our jobs' in Australia Has now been solved   by the introduction of 407 type visas really 'indentured labour" visas.
This is the disguised form of slavery once used for the Kanakas.
Aboriginals being now citizens and officially now 'Australians" too can no longer officialty be employed on 'Black' rates of pay allowing openly colonial super-profits. So a new underclass worker caste  is required for obtaining super-profits.
'We will choose who can come to Australia and under what conditions "etc etc.

Most Australian people are not aware of the extent of this indentured labour system but it runs at 70,000 new visas a year plus renewals.
A lot of this is hidden away in the country and in small factories employed by labour contractors etc..
This has ended the need for a real migrant programme except for some family reunion visas and of course they have come under increasing restrictions .
Some white settler 'greens" even justify protecting the labour monopoly in a disguised way, with cries for reducing population.
 A more acceptable politically correct face than the Hansenites.
Despite the huge proven beneficial contribution migrants have made to our society.

Thus a two-class system of workers is being created the labour aristocracy of official Australian workers and a "temporary" worker underclass without any of the old rights of migrant labour.

Now what will our labour aristocracy unions for Australian workers do about that?
Why, they will run campaigns to try and stop the worst exploitation by making sure the system operates 'fairly' and is not 'abused" by excesses by the employers.

Labor Aristocracy and migrants

There are various types of labor aristocracy or combinations of them.

1. Most common of labor aristocracy are the labors from developed countries. They have higher wages, better working conditions, higher living standards comparing with  the labors from  undeveloped countries.

2. Union labor Aristocracy, The members of Trade Unions , not the migrants or people from  minorities, especially union representatives and other active members,  have better conditions and more chances to improve their position in their workplace.

3. Labor aristocracy of cause their race background. In countries with ethnic minorities or migrants, labors from the dominant race have better working conditions, higher living standards.

The elite of the labor aristocracy comes from the dominant race, from union representatives or active Union members, in developed countries.

Most depressed labors come from ethnic minorities or migrants in undeveloped countries with weak or illegal the Union Movement.

In Australia most depressed labors in their workplace are the migrants and aborigines. A study found that 32% of aborigines and 35% of migrants are victims of race discrimination. Personally I believe that the Muslim migrants are in worst conditions from any other labor in their workplace.

When I became Union representative some employees thought that soon I will become supervisor but I was worried if I will keep  my job or what to do a sole parent  with three children if I lose my job of cause my Union activities. As you could guest for about 15 years, union member or not, union representative or not, union counselor or not I continue to do the most dirty and unhealthy job in my workplace without any training or any opportunity to improve my position. 

TO BE A MIGRANT IS A SIN!!!

When as Union Representative I pressed the Manufacturer Manager for Union member’s rights  he gave me a notice, was his resignation from the Union, at the end I found that not only the Manufacturer Manager but also all Supervisors was member of the Union and  before, the product manager was in other place Union Representative.

These employees are what I call Union labor aristocracy.

Antonis Symeonakis

Adelaide

We (migrants) know that our problems are not caused from our poor language and we can prove it easily.

 In an article which I published in Indymedia with the title
 “” Union members are the worst racists!!”” there are many names of migrant victims. I have a bigger list of them. From them only two persons  have  language problems, the other are 2nd generation migrants, they born and went to school here, few of them finished the Adelaide University. They did not have language problems.

The racists do not victimize the migrants of cause their language but because they come from a different race.

Even my problems and luck from any opportunity in my workplace is not caused from my poor English.

In my work, a modern computerized printing company we do not use many English words because the inks, paper, foils etc all named with numbers, not words. For example for the inks PL 1268 or PMS 129 or 428 foil etc. These machines are computerized and their operation is very easy. If you compare me with all the other persons in my work place you will find that I have a big advantage to operate these machines because I spent many hours on computers every day, I build, repair or maintain computers,  

 I have a shop with computer and electronic staff, I publish many articles on the internet with how to install etc, I fount one of my article to be used in USA university for student’s exercises etc while some employees in my work place have very small relations with computers etc.

 I can not understand how all Anglo Saxon very soon learn the job and improve their position and I stuck in the bottom for fifteen years. The truth is that my IQ is higher than the average, about 130 and in normal, logical conditions I had to be from the firsts who will improve their position, .

Government, political parties Trade Unions and Employers implied acceptance the victimization of the non Anglo Saxon employees.

We (migrants) do not ask for solidarity but we require the Government, political parties Trade Union and Employers to undertake their responsibilities and respect and support migrant’s rights and interests.

Antonis Symeonakis

Adelaide

Marx says most labour in society is 'simple labour".

It is valued on the market as multiples of that simple labour.

Standards of education change so that even word  processing ,say is today an average labour skill (but I lack)

Dvision of labour simplifies tasks so that they can become for example a repetitive matter of using the right ink numbers.

Only a minority work with high tech genius stuff ,advancement can simply depend on having the right class attitudes of serving the boss.

The established labour aristocracy is very skillful and experienced in that task.

 Of interest to migrants who may be more likely to read this article .

Part of the  financial crisis in the US has spilled over to  the construction industry.

 http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/JA03Dj04.html
 "What Americans do know is that they have jobs. At 4.7% the US unemployment rate is still very low, just 0.3% off the low for this cycle set in March, 2006. Former US president Harry Truman once said that Americans define a recession as a neighbor losing their job, a depression as them losing their own jobs. By that measure, with American employment still strong, Americans just don't see that much urgency in cutting back spending.

Americans feel more secure if they see the headline unemployment number still low. A factor that is probably artificially keeping the employment numbers rosy is the fact that the layoffs in the US construction industry don't really show up in US employment numbers.

That is because it has been an unacknowledged but obvious fact that, for most of this decade, the boom in US real estate construction has been populated by America's signature reserve army of the unemployed, its undocumented, primarily Hispanic, illegal alien workforce. These workers weren't really counted among the officially employed during the boom, and, as housing construction employment now evaporates, they're not now counted as among the unemployed in the bust. (I wrote on the phenomenon of illegal immigrants building US housing in my March 29, 2007 ATol piece Exurbia-built on paradox and hypocrisy.) The hard-working builders of America's homes and hearths are proving to be as disposable as tissue paper, which, if you ever talk to the immigrants themselves, pretty much sums up how they feel America always saw them in the first place."
 
In australia the migrants will be the first to be laid off too.

The bulding industry in spain already faces  collapse .'Pyetor the plumber"  and labourer from Poland has lost  his job.

The migrants know from experience that they will be the first who will lose their job, they know that they are on the top of the list for redundancy. We know it and we have many proves in our hands. The question is not if we will be the victims but why the migrants do not use their power, their numbers as voters to improve their position. In Australia, USA, Canada, there many migrants, citizens of these countries and they could create huge problems to any party that ignore their rights. We (migrants, non Anglo Saxon )  are about 42-45%  from Australian population  and most of us are Australian citizens, 93% of Greek migrants are Australian citizens. The migrants are enough strong but they ignore their power, they are not organized and they are not ready to fight for their rights.

I try with various ways to tell them to undertake their responsibilities, I try to tell the migrants  that it is time  to create their organizations, that it is time to prepare to fight for their rights.  

QUESTIONNAIRE FOR ALLEGATIONS OF VIOLATIONS OF MIGRANTS’ HUMAN RIGHTS

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