Blog 3- Qatar World Cup
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This article is about the construction of the FIFA World Cup 2020 stadium in Qatar. It brings up the serious issue of on site deaths that are occurring during the construction. It averages around one worker death PER DAY, with an expected four thousand deaths by he stadiums completion. Most of the workers are foreign to Qatar and are from Nepal. The deaths are due to awful working and living conditions. Often it is eleven men to one small room. Heatstroke is common in the arid metropolis. Workers must deal with conditions because it is the only work they could find and their families back home need the money to survive. Managers are often abusive and some workers go months, yes months, without pay. Due to unfair laws many cannot even legally return home. This is a very sad situation indeed for all involved.
I cannot believe that things like this are allowed to go relatively unnoticed throughout the world. Workers rights should be respected and America has the latter half of the nineteenth century to prove this. I think that The United States should double its prevention efforts to help end the suffering that these workers are clearly feeling. Worker protections and rights under the law are a key to American labor and I think they should be important across the globe.
I agree with James. These conditions sound a lot like the early American factories where workers were forced to work in dangerous conditions with little pay and death was not uncommon. It amazes me that this still happens to workers today.
ReplyDeleteI agree with James it is surprising but very wrong that workers work in these conditions. These workers are building a stadium for the FIFA, they should be working in better conditions. Soccer is one of the most played sport in the world so FIFA is obviously wealthy, so they need to worry about their workers conditions.
ReplyDeleteI agree with James, I think we should try to influence their government through diplomacy. On the bright side, at least these people have jobs. Many people in Qatar are unemployed and starving. It is sad that people will go to work in horrible conditions like this for menial pay, only to put food on the table for their families.
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