5 Italian women die on workplace

[Foxy]

http://corrieredelmezzogiorno.corriere.it/bari/notizie/cronaca/2011/3-ottobre-2011/paura-cuore-citta-crolla-palazzosi-cercano-persone-le-macerie-1901706194032.shtml

5 women have dead in Barletta, Apulia, because the building in which they were working has collapsed while they where inside. The building hosted a hosiery and was 4 floors high. A pregnant woman has been rescued from the wreckage alive in the morning, but in the afternoon the corpse of a 14 years old girl and those of other 3 women have been pulled out. The girl was the daughter of the owners of the firm. A 5th woman, who was still in very critic conditions, has dead very soon afterward.
All the women were working without a regular employment contract for just 3,4 euros a hour.

[The Lawspeaker]

How on earth could that happen ?

[Wanderlust]

^ probably because of poor building maintenance.. :(

[Foxy]

How on earth could that happen ?


^ probably because of poor building maintenance.. :(

They are still investigating. An ipothesis is that a bulding next to the hosiery was being demolished and works could have been done wrongly. But also the building with the hosiery was unsafe and full of cracks.
An other thing that should finish under the judge's eyes is why the women were working without contract.
The girl, instead, had just come back from school and had entered the hosiery to greet her parents, but they weren't inside at the moment of the collapse.

[Bard]

But also the building with the hosiery was unsafe and full of cracks.


I'd stick with this one, considering how dirty the italian building business is, especially in the south.

[WilliamWallace]

It happened in Apulia, in south Italy.
E' successo in Puglia, nella bassa italia.

[alzo zero]

It happened in Apulia, in south Italy.
Dici che dovremmo mandargli giù un po' di muranda bergamaschi?

[rhiannon]

:hrm00000:

Was this some sort of sweatshop? There is mention of Hosiery...

Very, very sad :(

[Foxy]

It happened in Apulia, in south Italy.
E' successo in Puglia, nella bassa italia.

Ma vaffanculo, quando ne crollerà una al Nord scriverò la stessa cosa. Questa è tipo l'alluvione successa in Veneto. Siccome era in Veneto i media (controllati quasi tutti dal governo) hanno fatto un casino, mentre se era al Sud non se li sarebbero manco filati.

[WilliamWallace]

Ma vaffanculo, quando ne crollerà una al Nord scriverò la stessa cosa. Questa è tipo l'alluvione successa in Veneto. Siccome era in Veneto i media (controllati quasi tutti dal governo) hanno fatto un casino, mentre se era al Sud non se li sarebbero manco filati.


Dici che dovremmo mandargli giù un po' di muranda bergamaschi?

volevo soltanto specificare dove si trova la puglia perchè non tutti sono italiani quelli che leggono.
Se ci fosse stato scritto lazio avrei scritto centro e se ci fosse stato scritto Veneto avrei scritto nord est.

[alzo zero]

volevo soltanto specificare dove si trova la puglia perchè non tutti sono italiani quelli che leggono.
Se ci fosse stato scritto lazio avrei scritto centro e se ci fosse stato scritto Veneto avrei scritto nord est.
Non ti preoccupare per quanto mi riguarda il dato geografico è significativo. E' inutile negare che al Sud questo tipo di rischio è maggiore. Evidenziarlo non vuol dire essere "leghista", "polentone", "filo-germanico" etc. A volte alcuni nostri compatrioti sono (secondo me) un po' troppo suscettibili su quest'argomento e lo dico con tutta la serenità. Il Sud è diverso dal Nord, non sto parlando di cagate pseudo-antropologiche etc. ma di cultura ed educazione. Credo che sia un fatto oggettivo (senza voler fare nessuna polemica).

[Aces High]

Was this some sort of sweatshop? There is mention of Hosiery...


Not so much a sweatshop in the sense that there werent a hundred people crammed into some tin shack,but it was more like a family run illegal or semi legal business......four or five workers.
The building or cellar underneath the building where these women died probably didnt conform to building regulations or health regulations.

For some reason it collapsed and crushed these women to death.Probably due to its age and the lack of proper maintenance.

[Aces High]

This film goes some way in explaining the southern counter culture of Italy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomorrah_%28film%29

[SwordoftheVistula]

How on earth could that happen ?

It's a pretty common way of doing business in the Mediterranean world. There's a large amount of regulations and controls, so there ends up being a large black market economy, plus lots family run operations which operate in outside of regulations because they have local connections and also pay off officials. So, while on paper it's an economy more highly regulated than northern Europe, in reality there's a lot more people who exist outside of the official regulations to a large degree.