I admit that I am not a fan of these committees: they go on unmercifully, ego participants take precedence over rationality, fewer people quit an chance to humiliate political opponents, bite them, interrupt them. Ultimately, alternatively of talking about what should actually be the subject of the debate, viewers focus on who hit who.
The same was actual of Daniel Obiek. He did not appear to the committee 3 times due to the fact that he "did not want to be a monkey in the Michael Szczerba circus", and it interfered with his run program for the Europarliament. So he appeared at election picnics, but he was expected to spend the nights at a friend's in Budapest so that the Polish police, the prosecution and the CBA wouldn't bother him.
In accordance with the standards
On Tuesday, 9 July, with the immunity of the Euro-Parliamentary, he allowed himself to be interrogated. According to all suspicions, he argued that the visa scandal had nothing to do with him. He was the CEO. Orlene, workers for the construction of Olefin III employed a tendered Korean-Spanish consortium, everything was carried out according to corporate governance, the investment was supervised by 4 global consulting companies.
The members of the committee seemingly predicted specified a turn of events due to the fact that they focused on working conditions of workers at the lowest levels, mainly the Indian and Filipino. There is no anticipation of maintaining hygiene against overcrowding of barracks, no employment contracts, no humiliation, no pay, no violence, no water in the heat and during frosts, and no mutiny on the pavement. Inhuman work, almost slave work. People brought from distant places, in Poland helpless, had no place to turn.
The investment for $25 billion in Polish petrochemicals, crucial for the economy of the full region, employing 65,000 workers, met all global standards. That's what Obietek knows, due to the fact that he was watching another large investments. Besides, if they didn't, they wouldn't be getting funding.
We want those standards? Recently, an Indian individual died in Italy, abandoned after the agricultural device cut off his hand. He bled out. In December 2023, in Sweden, the contractor was inactive not certain if he had employed 5 workers who died, falling along with the elevator from the eighth floor. In Antwerp port, 174 human trafficking victims were to work. In all these cases, there are no responsible, as employment takes place by chain of subcontractors and intermediarieswho are looking for employees, selling visas, connect with companies in destinations.
How do you bypass your sanity?
The case in May was written by the media and on these accounts the committee based its allegations – which, of course, Obietek laughed due to the fact that in May he was no longer president. However, the questions that have been asked by the committee seem very crucial to me. And Obieka answers – sad.
Questions were completely common sense – about responsibility. How come the president doesn't know how employees are hired? Under what conditions do they live? What's the deal?
Both answers showed how intricate the strategy of shifting work distant from 1 another was. ‘The Commission should appoint the president of Hyundai, who is established in Seoul’; "I can't enter a subcontractor-managed area, I don't have the authority"; "There's a State Labour Inspection for that."
Interestingly, 1 aspect of the presence of abroad workers in the vicinity of Płock Daniel Both became interested, namely, he went to local self-government, met with the police and discussed safety issues, due to the fact that yet checking out thousands of workers from distant countries may alarm the residents, and this is simply a “image issue”.
I want that the president of all unfair company would gotta wriggle for 3 hours under specified rational, apparent questions. However, it took a parliamentary committee of enquiry to make it work with Obatek, and by accident, in an unintended way. The main subject of the proceeding was the work of "illegal immigrants".
Where were you?
When tragedy happens, everyone looks for responsible. erstwhile a kid gets hurt, the first question is where was the mother? What if people get hurt?
The proceeding revealed that specified rational questions had nothing to do with it. due to the fact that there are no guilty people, the standards are international, and the size of the investment should make us kneel down and forget the trifles of worker rights. In the absence of interest from the only state institution that has the power to control conditions and comply with labour law – there are no responsible, there is no 1 to turn to.
They have no 1 else to turn to. activists at the borderWhen they see a man in request of help: the ambulance operator will make the decision to send an ambulance from the skin color, and force formation officers will guarantee that the delinquent dies behind the fence.
Nor did they have anyone to turn to protesting activists from the Last Generation erstwhile drivers in front of police performed self-righteousness, revenge, violence, beating them consecutive in the eyes of a car fire extinguisher.
And we, journalists and publishers, have no 1 to turn to erstwhile large platforms (referring of course to mysterious algorithms) advance hateful lyrics, and critical of their hegemony cut their reach.
After speaking to Obiek before the committee on X ranges, he makes the Pcim slogan, where everyone dissatisfied with how well Obietek fell, humiliates him, reproving his background, education, language. The Commission is worth watching, the X study is definitely not.
