Employer in Samut Sakhon dumps his migrant workers by the road near Bangkok

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Employer in Samut Sakhon dumps his migrant workers by the road near Bangkok

 

Picture: Daily News

 

News page "Ton Prakan" had live broadcasts in the Bang Plee area of Samut Prakan last night of a group of 24 Myanmar workers who had just been dumped.

 

Their boss in Samut Sakhon - center of a major outbreak of Covid-19 in recent days - had put them in a van saying they were to be tested.

 

Instead they found themselves by the side of the Bang Na - Trad highway just outside Bangkok, reported Daily News. 

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Police were wondering what to do with them as they did not have any testing capability and putting them up at the police station or in immigration facilities could lead to further spread of the virus. 

 

They said that the workers had been moved there from Mahachai Muang Mai. 

 

Soure: Daily News

 

 

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[pixelaoffy]

So what many of us knew! The borders of Thailand have never been really closed since April . Just airport restrictions ! The land borders have leaked like sieve, as they always have. Unscrupulous cheap labour gang masters have had a supply line of those desperate for work for years and gov done nothing done about it, even when there,s a pandemic with locked borders !

Edited December 23, 2020 by pixelaoffy

[Phuketshrew]

How about arresting the employer and making him pay for quarantine and testing?

[KamnanT]

Heartbreaking.  The poor and desperate used as ultra-low cost labour to support a fishing industry that operates to medieval standards, then dumped at the side of the road like trash when their employer gets scared of actual repercussions for his crimes.  I hope someone treats them with some compassion, but it's unlikely.

[worgeordie]

Throw away employees ,The Police don't know what to do with them,

are they still at the side of the road

regards Worgeordie

[darksidedog]

There is a depth of callousness in some people that I find truly appalling. This is such an instance. I hope the authorities find this miserable boss and nail him for whatever criminal offences they can. (Hiring illegal workers, crossing a lockdown zone, whatever.) He deserves it.

[steveyinasia]

Greedy company owner exploiting the poor for maximum profit and dumping them like human trash when it all comes unstuck.  What a wonderful responsible human being this person is. 

[Rocking Robert]

A famous  Man once said I am not better than any other man But I am not any less either. My heart go out or these people 

[ChakaKhan]

Now if I can just get Eva Air to drop me off at Swampy, in a basket and with a note..quarantine in VIP lounge....

 

Wonder if these folks are relieved to get outta that job.....at least drop em off at a 7-11 for a snack or leo!

 

Seems the PM is blaming the Burmese so business as usual I guess.....cant blame us diseased dirty farangs

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[Natai Beach]

17 minutes ago, pixelaoffy said:

So what many of us knew! The borders of Thailand have never been really closed since April . Just airport restrictions !
 

that is not entirely true. Many Burmese have been wanting to come back and been unable to. I personally know some. 
sure the borders are porous, and some people cheat. 

 

17 minutes ago, pixelaoffy said:

 

 

The land borders have leaked like sieve, as they always have. Unscrupulous cheap labour gang masters have had a supply line of those desperate for work for years and gov done nothing done about it. Even when there was a pandemic with locked borders !

 

“Unscrupulous cheap labour gang masters” is a figment of your imagination.

Most Third World Burmese, Cambodian and Laotian are more than happy to work in Thailand. More money and work than back home. They earn twice as much in Thailand.
They are lining up for it. A good opportunity to improve their and their families lives. An opportunity they don’t have in their own countries. What is your country doing for them?

 

 

[madmitch]

 

Will we ever see this in Thailand: Burmese Lives Matter!

[pixelaoffy]

2 minutes ago, ChakaKhan said:

Now if I can just get Eva Air to drop me off at Swampy, in a basket and with a note..quarantine in VIP lounge....

 

Wonder if these folks are relieved to get outta that job.....at least drop em off at a 7-11 for a snack or leo!

 

Seems the PM is blaming the Burmese so business as usual I guess.....cant blame us diseased dirty farangs

 

The PM and his incompetent gov just go for publicity when it comes to border restrictions and so called success of controlling the virus ! Land borders and illegal labour crossing has continued all year as night follows day!

[pixelaoffy]

4 minutes ago, Natai Beach said:

that is not entirely true. Many Burmese have been wanting to come back and been unable to. I personally know some. 
sure the borders are porous, and some people cheat. 

 

 

“Unscrupulous cheap labour gang masters” is a figment of your imagination.

Most Third World Burmese, Cambodian and Laotian are more than happy to work in Thailand. More money and work than back home. They earn twice as much in Thailand.
They are lining up for it. A good opportunity to improve their and their families lives. An opportunity they don’t have in their own countries. What is your country doing for them?

 

 

What incredible naive nonsense 

[ChakaKhan]

7 minutes ago, pixelaoffy said:

The PM and his incompetent gov just go for publicity when it comes to border restrictions and so called success of controlling the virus ! Land borders and illegal labour crossing has continued all year as night follows day!

Or in thai logic day follows night! ????

[Jeffr2]

They have this same problem in many other countries.  Hiring of illegal workers.  The US started arresting business owners and it helped a bit.  But going after the workers isn't the way through this.  They're just poor souls trying to survive.

[tomazbodner]

52 minutes ago, Phuketshrew said:

How about arresting the employer and making him pay for quarantine and testing?

The workers know who their employer was. They can probably speak Thai.

Police can get information on where they worked, for who, and for how long they worked.

Then they can use every law in Thailand against the employer and all the fines for illegal hiring of staff, exploitation, tax avoidance, not reporting whereabouts, harbouring illegal immigrants, people trafficking... whatever stupid law going back to Ice age they can find, to make an example out of this greedy <deleted>.

[Enzian]

I said on a different site years ago that a problem in Thailand is "disposable everything, including people". And here we go.

[PatOngo]

I trust the boss went to his local temple after dumping his excess baggage and made merit to absolve himself of any wrong doing! 

[smedly]

I'm sure they all got a very nice redundancy package and were fully paid for there outstanding wages of 100baht a day

[smedly]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Police were wondering what to do with them as they did not have any testing capability and putting them up at the police station or in immigration facilities could lead to further spread of the virus.

how about a quarantine facility and test them 

 

oh but but that would cost money

 

so just leave them by the side of the road

[mr mr]

these are the moments that make you proud of what our species is capable of. these are f***ing human beings for f***s sake. not just a bag of garbage you toss off at the side of the road when you are done with it. 

 

the person who did this needs to just be gone. how can greed for money allow a conscious to do such horrible things. man are we ever on the wrong path. 

 

i would like to leave earth now please. 

[smedly]

53 minutes ago, madmitch said:

 

Will we ever see this in Thailand: Burmese Lives Matter!

ALM

[Natai Beach]

21 minutes ago, pixelaoffy said:

Wrong ! I know there are  'recruitment people' who help and funnel these workers illegally! Don't lecture me about what you know I  dont. Make sure you've got the necessary paperwork for those you say you hire ..along with the bribes to make sure everything is processed !

paperwork all sorted. Very simple procedure. They process millions of them every year. No bribes were required.

Here is one I had, he just finished the floor. He and his fiancé saving up for five years in Thailand so they can go back with the money saved and the skills learned to build a house without a mortgage. He is 23 years old.
Setting him and his family up for life. Nice, hardworking people.

 

His sister, brother and father are also happily employed here. 

 

 

 

Another one I am good friends with, a makho operator has been here happily for 13 years. He doesn’t ever want to go back.  My Thai mate employs four in his restaurant, similar stories. 
 

I know there are a few horror stories. They are the ones you have read about, but there are also millions of happily working in Thailand lifting themselves out of poverty and feeding millions of mouths back in Burma, Cambodia, Laos etc. 
 

The Thais giving livelihoods to these millions of people is a positive thing. They would be stuffed without it.

 

[WineOh]

shocking but not at all surprising with the current mindset of many locals here.

 

[Dogmatix]

Thailand has been losing its competitiveness and share of foreign direct investment within ASEAN for the past 25 years.  It's maximum potential growth rate when all goes well is now only around 3-4%, the same as developed countries.  So it can never get out of the middle income trap and become a developed economy. The government has no meaningful planning apart maintaining the military/bureaucracy/ politico control of all power and grabbing as much as possible from corruption and economic management is incompetent at best. There are no plans to make education competitive and increase the base of knowledge workers needed to move up the value added scale and attract foreign direct investment.  There are no plans to introduce a modern investment code like Vietnam's that allows foreign investors to own their own business or land, except under temporary BOI conditions.

 

All this means that Thailand will fall behind economically and eventually Thai workers will have to go to neighbouring countries like Burma and Vietnam to seek low paid work commensurate with their low skills and poor education.  Even for that, having failed to learn English despite studying it at school for many years,  they will be forced to learn local languages like the Burmese workers here learn Thai.

Edited December 23, 2020 by Dogmatix

[Crusader]

Find the employer and dump him in their country...dispicable behaviour.

[pixelaoffy]

1 hour ago, Dogmatix said:

Thailand has been losing its competitiveness and share of foreign direct investment within ASEAN for the past 25 years.  It's maximum potential growth rate when all goes well is now only around 3-4%, the same as developed countries.  So it can never get out of the middle income trap and become a developed economy. The government has no meaningful planning apart maintaining the military/bureaucracy/ politico control of all power and grabbing as much as possible from corruption and economic management is incompetent at best. There are no plans to make education competitive and increase the base of knowledge workers needed to move up the value added scale and attract foreign direct investment.  There are no plans to introduce a modern investment code like Vietnam's that allows foreign investors to own their own business or land, except under temporary BOI conditions.

 

All this means that Thailand will fall behind economically and eventually Thai workers will have to go to neighbouring countries like Burma and Vietnam to seek low paid work commensurate with their low skills and poor education.  Even for that, having failed to learn English despite studying it at school for many years,  they will be forced to learn local languages like the Burmese workers here learn Thai.

Perfect summation! Regressive feudalistic country Thailand 

[hotchilli]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Their boss in Samut Sakhon - center of a major outbreak of Covid-19 in recent days - had put them in a van saying they were to be tested.

Thai compassion.... I hope the boss has great karma coming his way.

[natway09]

So much for the Police using their brains.

Isolate the, catch the employer, make him pay for 

[hanuman2543]

8 hours ago, Natai Beach said:

that is not entirely true. Many Burmese have been wanting to come back and been unable to. I personally know some. 
sure the borders are porous, and some people cheat. 

 

 

“Unscrupulous cheap labour gang masters” is a figment of your imagination.

Most Third World Burmese, Cambodian and Laotian are more than happy to work in Thailand. More money and work than back home. They earn twice as much in Thailand.
They are lining up for it. A good opportunity to improve their and their families lives. An opportunity they don’t have in their own countries. What is your country doing for them?

 

 

This report is already 10 years old. You should read it because it will open your eyes:

https://www.hrw.org/report/2010/02/23/tiger-crocodile/abuse-migrant-workers-thailand

Edited December 23, 2020 by hanuman2543