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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10"44-year-old Teresa Kwiatkowski died from multiple injuries after she was hit by an excavator at a recycling depot in St Margaret's in May 2000."
For a young woman in her 20s, who came here seeking employment to suffer such a tragic fate is absolutely shameful and disgraceful in this day and age. This makes me extremely angry even thinking about it. The bosses who left her in such a predicament should be horsewhipped and hung for the greedy capitalist bastards they are.
her former employer an agency claimed today that the offered her flight back to Ukraine and rang her mother when she left the job... but she refused to go home....still... sad.
But how could she 'go home'? She had not been here long and to go back after losing her job would brand her a failure. Don't know what the family circumstances are but quite likely there were others depending on the money she would send home. It is quite like the situation of Irish emigrants refusing to return home, feeling shame if it were to become known they are in poor circumstances abroad, Christy Moore had a song about it called 'Red Biddy' I think.
The truth is that she worked as cheap labour in a seasonal industry and was sacked when it suited the employer.
Can we get some clarification on this story? According to a comment from her former boss in todays Irish Independant, the worker who had her legs amputated had left her job of her own free will months ago and turned down offers by him, the plane fare back to the Ukraine. This is alleged to have been done with the co-operation of the employment agency that recruited the young woman
12 January, 2005
http://www.sinnfein.ie/news/detail/8063
Sinn Féin South Belfast MLA Alex Maskey has called for a wide-ranging investigation of the circumstances surrounding the case of a Ukrainian migrant worker who had both legs amputated after being forced to sleep on the streets.
Comrade/s,
When the statement above was released the information surrounding the incident stands as it is, correct. Since then we now know that the woman involved, Oksana Sukhanova is actually 23 years old and not 27 as stated above.
We have also been informed through the usual media outlets that the firm involved allegedly had ended Oksana's employment contract "..by mutual agreement" as she was "...not suited to her job". We are also aware that Oksana has been questioned regarding her actual whereabouts following the termination of that employment contract. But as yet no 'safety net' by the 6 county state or its services has been put in place to ensure this type of crime doesn't happen again.
Furthermore can I add to this discussion by informing those who may be interested that the news of this tragedy came a week in which employers at a North Dublin recycling plant were fined a total of E80,000 by the courts of the 26 counties over the death of a 44 year old Polish migrant worker, Teresa Kwiatkowski.
If you can remember, Teresa deid back in May 2002 from massive internal injuries after she was struck by the arm of an excavator whilst she was on top of a mound of rubbish salvaging waste wood. The driver of the excavator stopped only when he heard the screams of Teresa's partner as he ran to pick her up. The reps' from the Health & Safety Exexcutive can call this a lack of 'duty of care' to non nationals, but we veiw it as it is, industrial terrorism!
Derry IRSP
I am an Ukrainian living and working in London, and am disgusted by your distortion of the facts, in order to promote your silly socialist ideas (it is obvious you never lived under socialism!). Oksana indeed refused a flight back to Ukraine in September, well before "turkey season" commenced. She came to N.I. on a one-year cheap labour visa, which is considered to be a blessing for many Ukrainians, and just wanted to make most of her stay in the UK. When she lost her job (which is a normal thing in market economy conditions), she had to take care of herself. If she could not do that in the UK, she should have gone back to Ukraine. She took a risk, and paid a horrible price for it. But stop using this tragedy as means of masterminding yet another picture of "nasty employers" - it is cheap and disgusting.
The Island of Ireland
I understand that this unfortunate young Ukranian woman was working in Portadown and supposedly left employment prior to Christmas based on a 'Mutual Agreement'. My personal experience is that it is difficult to gain true mutuality where injustices prevail.
I had wondered why other members from the Ukraine were not there to notify the authorities but perhaps the most inhumane and merciless quote of the last person writing from London explains something.
Oksana is a human being, who came to work in Ireland and for whatever reasons has lost both her legs due to Frostbite. This is not the Artic and it ought not have happened.
Can anyone let me know what the present situation is? Has anyone undertaken a fund raising collection to ensure that Oksana is equipped to deal with this horrific change in circumstances. Have the employers anything to say or the agency in Dundalk who offered to fly her home.
This sounds like indentured contract - has anyone looked into this? The Irish need to recall that most likely we have all had ancestry who emigrated and who had to fight hard for Justice.
Christmas is about caring and sharing, let us not forget Oksana......
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Qutoation - I relied on this during my divorce:
Betrayal
'To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice'
Confucius (c.551-478) A CHINESE PHILOSOPHER.
To suggest that this young woman was somehow the agent of her own catastrophe is a serious insult to her. her employers were kicking her onto the street. She chose to stay on in the off-chance that something would turn up. It didn't. She has been mutilated for life as a consequence. How anyone with any heart can call her a fool, which is the sum of criticism of her, beggars belief. It is not a socialist plot to describe her employers as savages for throwing her to the elements. If they had any decency in them they would have helped. They knew what whould happen to her. They just didn't care. THAT is market-capitalism. Socialism has never happened in Ukraine, so don't confuse the totalitarian hell of that place with Socialism.