Doreen C Mampani

Wages Of Laborers Crying Out Doreen C Mampani

This book Wages Of Laborers Crying Out is about unskilled, those without high school education who work as laborers. Some are educated people who find themselves unemployed and take jobs to work as laborers to fight poverty and unemployment. People find themselves working as laborers for various reasons such as poverty, lack of education due to poverty, teenage pregnancy, immigrating to other countries and laziness. There are young people who are lazy to study and succumb to dropping out of school because they don't want to study. In this book I focus on those who are determined and hard working. Their wages are crying out because they are being exploited. I mean there are some madams who pay day shift domestic worker R800.00 instead of R1500.00. They call such workers cheap labor. There are gardeners who are paid R100.00 instead of R200.00 for the work they do. I remember some laborers where hired by one madam to cut down some trees. They charged her R300.00 to cut down the trees and take the wood to throw at the dump. She felt that was too much. When she complained to me I offered to cut down the trees and take the wood, she gave me R100.00. I arranged three of my mother's tenants to help me carry the wood and we used it to boil water to bath. I worked as a domestic worker, cleaned a 7 bedroom house scrubbing floors on my knees. The house had two bathrooms and two large verandas. I also cleaned the yard and removed dog pooh. Madam would not increase my wages - she used to pay a gardener to clean the yard. She boasted that she was saving big time. There are builders who are paid weekly wages which are very low. The employer makes millions out of the houses he is building but pay his builders a few thousands. Not considering their health in long term but only his pocket. Why then must wages not cry out to God when poor people are being exploited everyday? One finds people sick not knowing exactly what is wrong with them. Little do they remember how they exploited their workers in robbing them in wages.