{"id":2590,"date":"2012-06-25T15:29:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T15:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/un-base-in-uganda-accused-of-exploitation-of\/"},"modified":"2012-06-25T15:28:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T15:28:35","slug":"un-base-in-uganda-accused-of-exploitation-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/un-base-in-uganda-accused-of-exploitation-of\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Base in Uganda Accused of Exploitation of Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Workers of United Nations base at Entebbe, Uganda have organized a protest accusing the global institution of enslaving and exploiting them in their own country.}}<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not working today until the UN chief comes to address this issue,\u201d one of the protesting workers said bitterly.<\/p>\n<p>More than 120 protesting workers are attached to the cleaning department at the UN base. They are protesting the organisations\u2019 decision to tender out cleaning services at the base to a Ugandan private company, which then cut their pay.<\/p>\n<p>The workers told local press, \u201cThey told us they would tender cleaning services to a private company but it won\u2019t affect our work. We were surprised when Safi Cleaners Limited, the new company reduced our pay from $283 per month to $48.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cleaning company is accused of not giving workers appointment letters, or medical insurance, saying that makes them slaves in their own country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Workers of United Nations base at Entebbe, Uganda have organized a protest accusing the global institution of enslaving and exploiting them in their own country.}} \u201cWe are not working today until the UN chief comes to address this issue,\u201d one of the protesting workers said bitterly. More than 120 protesting workers are attached to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[334],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe-reporter"],"bylines":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2590"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2590"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}