In Part III of our four-part story on berry pickers in Finland, Jenpreeya and her husband return to Thailand after 70 fruitless days in Finland. Their work did not only not earn them a single euro, it actually left them owing the company money. They wonder if they had in fact been part of a human trafficking scheme. Disappointed and angry, Jenpreeya and other workers seek redress for the wrong done to them at a local government agency, then the Ministry of Labor and the Finnish Embassy in Bangkok. The issue enters the national stage in Parliament. In the end, will they find justice?
Jenpreeya and her husband weren’t the only ones to face the devastating situation of having worked for 70 days in a foreign land and returning home absolutely empty-handed.
Jenpreeya says that over 100 Thai workers were going through the same thing, including her sister-in-law and brother-in-law. Some…
