The present CGS-based system may thus offer the worst of both worlds: on the one hand, it is a potential impediment to the global mobility of well-qualified practitioners; while on the other, it offers employers little solid assurance of having excluded unsafe workers, and could even foster an illusion that all CGS-approved medical immigrants are equally competent.
I am heartbroken to write another blog post about unsafe garment worker conditions in the country of Bangladesh.
Until we the consumers of these products take responsibility for our role in unsafe foreign worker conditions, there will be no change.
While the demonstrations were largely peaceful and isolated to a few gates at each port, local officials in the longshoremen's union and port officials or shipping companies determined that the conditions were unsafe for workers.
Wages were bad, and conditions were so unsafe that workers were seriously injured or even killed while using the trash compactors of their trucks.
St . George Island a popular resort community and tourist destination, lost all power on June 24 due to high winds destroying three power poles in the Apalachicola Bay; a Progress Energy spokesperson stated that it could be days before power was restored because the conditions are too unsafe for workers.
There are workers who get text messages between 4am and 6am being told they have to get to work in an hour, workers denied safety training in unsafe environments and workers obliged to individually cover the cost of personal protective equipment such as goggles, gloves, shoes and high-vis clothing.
The garbage collectors who were striking were responding to unsafe conditions (a worker was crushed by a truck), a sub-minimum wage, non-existent benefits, zero bargaining rights.
Sex workers, academics, and politicians have decried the laws as unsafe, relegating sex workers to the dingy corners of society where they cannot conduct business in an open way.
Sam Maher, a campaigner at Labour Behind the Label, a pressure group for workers' rights, said the fire showed that thousands more potentially unsafe buildings housing workers producing goods for the UK could slip through the net.
