Swiss agriculture increasingly relies on temporary foreign workers. Among the most precarious, they are however defended by no one. They tell of the long hours of work for miserable pay, and their nights crammed into dilapidated apartments.
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– Farm workers in a field in Valais. YVAIN GENEVAY / TAMEDIA
Posted today at 10:00 a.m.–
It is 8 p.m. on a Friday evening in Martigny. Carlo* arrives very slowly on his bike. When he sets foot on the ground, he limps. Carlo has just spent between ten and eleven hours stripping the vines above Saxon for 15 francs gross an hour.
