“If you don’t want to do the whole session, you can just buy parts. Three pounds for touching her face and hair, £10 for touching the upper part of her body, £20 for fondling the lower part of her body. Would you like a cup of tea first ?

- a Chinese female housekeeper at a brothel in Cheam , Surrey- February 2007

From brothels in London to a lettuce farm in Sussex and Chinatown kitchens, this courageous and heart-wrenching book documents the super-exploited lives of the army of undocumented Chinese workers living in the UK. Hsiao-Hung Pai goes undercover for the Guardian to expose the secret hell of fear and sweat that exists in a subterranean twilight world .Everywhere she goes, Hsiao-Hung Pai finds that illegality itself multiplies the misery and that all attempts to improve their lives are doomed as ‘illegal’s’ move from one terrible job to another.

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers and Student/Farmworker Alliance have been leading a National Petition Campaign to end modern-day slavery and sweatshops in the fields. The signatures will be delivered to Burger King headquarters in Miami this Monday, April 28, and there's still time to sign and forward the petition if you haven't already!

A 30 minute film by activist and film-maker Dagmar Diesner, the film follows the lives and organising struggles of, mainly migrant, cleaners on the London Underground.

7pm, Saturday 8th March 2008
Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London
Tickets: £4/£2 concessions

This multimedia documentary theatre production from Birmingham-based Banner Theatre sets out to bust some of the myths about refugees and asylum seekers. Combining music, song, video, film and theatre, it speaks for asylum seekers in their quest for safety and security after fleeing war-torn lands in Africa and the Middle East.

Bulgarians said they were forced to "live like pigs"...

Exploited, Fired, Now Expelled? Immigrant Workers Occupy Paris Buffalo Grill

A practical guide for safety representatives. From the TUC.

Evening Standard
18 June 2007, 1:49pm
Barclays today reacted to trade-union pressure and bumped up the pay of 1,000 cleaners and other ancillary staff to £7.50 an hour.

A new film on the conditions faced by Haitian migrant labourers on sugar plantations in the neighbouring Dominician Republic has sparked controversy. Haitians live in poor conditions on plantations and even those born in the Republic are denied citizenship. Film-makers have faced legal threats and intimidation from sugar barons trying to avoid the word getting out about the desperate conditions of workers.