Up, boy. They come now.
We get God's hand to work.
Here we have to work.
Everyone does 12 hours a day.
Some jobs require strength.
Others use their heads.
Some jobs require hands and feet, other people's brains.
Others use their muscles, other pencils.
There are different systems. Some people use machines.
We do many things.
Press or the brain to control the machine.
If I have to move this, I use my head.
Enough when press the computer button.
Here must use both strength and head.
If not, my shoulders and legs.
It's 220 kilos of chemicals.
It's a hundred pounds. In 60.
Everyone has a different system and weight.
So the color is finished.
Color mixed by order.
60, 50, 40, 35 kg. As needed.
100, 200, 220... Done in color.
Everything is done by order.
I receive 210 rupees (€ 3) from this job.
This is enough to save food and family and savings.
For money must be raising children, -
So I tried to save several thousand rupees.
The factory doesn't work every day.
Who can work for one size 36 to 48 hours?
Humans must break their bones for a pair of banners.
What rich do you understand about poor problems?
Why am I here, far from home , when there is?
Poverty forced to lend to work here.
If I don't have travel money, -
I will borrow at 10% interest.
I produce bread with hard work.
There are 12 hour turns here.
From midnight to night .
Then I put food and I eat.
Leave hours and I will start at 2 pm There is no option. What is Poverty Rights?
Poverty is embarrassing.
Leave children, wife and parents -
and come here.
This can't be anything.
I want to say, that no one shot me.
I take a loan to work.
My own needs, to raise my child.
Playing means I will be forced to work.
Isn't that right?
I come from far away.
I traveled 1,600 km to get here to work.
My own desire. No one is forced.
We will be here to work, because we owe.
There are thousands of us.
I come here by train, that is full of goods.
There are no seats, must stand for 36 hours.
The train doesn't get water or food.
I have eaten baked beans.
I waste money only for chewing tobacco.
What else can you buy?
I can't even buy a cigar. Cigars cost 5 or 10 rupees.
One tobacco package costs 2 rupees and is enough for the whole day.
A little fun between jobs.
This makes it easier.
Even the boss can't intervene.
When doing a day's work, -
Chewing tobacco the rest.
Work must be done 12 hours, -
as is.
Must continue, up to 12 hours have passed.
When I come to the factory gate, -
make the mind return immediately.
When I reach the gate, my watch says, -
who must return.
But that can't be done.
What children learn, no longer learn as an adult.
If you learn how to handle machines as young people, -
more skilled as an adult.
Learn the profession.
Everyone needs to learn from childhood.
If I study this now, I can do something else later.
Track your exit, and plunge 24 new ones.
Do you all stand out? - I took it.
You are the queen of the palace, -
I am the king of the street.
Source if you like.
Do what you like.
If you are angry leave me, -
You will receive a message from my death.
O my lover, my lover...
Source if you like.
Do what you like.
If you are angry leave me, -
You will receive a message from my death.
This quality is expensive!
Prices can be approved.
I like this. How much does it cost?
This fabric is nice in summer.
This is voile.
They use the name "bro."
That's expensive.
What do you mean by this? - Yes.
Is it better than Korean?
I mean jacquard fabric. Very nice.
It costs a hundred...
This is $ 127.
Get it!
Run garbage.
Drag them manually. There is copper.
This catches hands. - Just wait!
The barrel is empty!
Don't mess with me! - Drag everything!
Where did it fall? - Hold and pull.
Hurry now!
Do you leave this? - Of course I will go.
There is a lot to be taken.
Still dripping.
This state, Gujarat...
Gujarat has filled a bad stomach.
If there is no food at home or anything, -
children are sent here -
and they will get up to 6,000 rupees (80 €) per month.
Even if there is nothing left to store, they will get their stomach full.
In India quite a lot of people.
Uttar Pradesh, Bihar... Bengal, Orissa, and Chhattisgarh.
If you don't come here to Gujarati to work, -
no factory will run.
If it is a trade union, the boss can be bent.
But workers are not organized.
If it is a union, the conditions will not be so miserable.
Working days are 8 hours and not 12 hours, and we will get a decent salary.
We will have the rights, funds and bonuses .
Now there are only payments and that's all.
There are no funds, no bonuses or no holidays.
Nobody gets anything.
You do a job a month, You get your salary and you can get out.
If you experience problems, you will be hacked and thrown away.
That's a problem here.
Organized workers won't suffer like this.
A worker can become a tiger.
But the lack of trade unions makes it a sheep.
Why not set up? It takes 8 hours to work.
The boss must be bent.
But if we arrange, our leaders will be killed.
The boss will kill him.
As soon as the worker is set, -
The boss asks, "Who is the leader?"
Then they agree with each other from this massacre.
Professional Link? I am a union.
Trade unions are, but not stronger than employers.
If the manufacturer is weak, can become an association.
If the manufacturer is good, there is not enough power for the association.
I'm strong.
My employees remain here, what can the alliance do?
No one can do anything to me.
I can restore it.
If dismissed or the factory is closed, -
Will you just go home?
Will you return from Uttar Pradesh but here to fight for your rights?
This is very simple.
None of us can do it.
I can't come from Uttar Pradesh and pay a thousand rupees for the trip.
A court session will cost a thousand rupees.
Here you have to pay pay for food and water.
Will be difficult.
Can someone not get food to eat, -
Imagine getting right from Uttar Pradesh?
That is why trade unions are weak.
Therefore, workers cannot be able to support them.
What do employers do?
He is always ready to help a worker.
If a worker needs money, the employer gives.
50, 100 or 150 rupees. From the employer.
That's why he succeeded, and the union was weak.
The income is very bad to work.
Think of both of us.
What can we do for two people, will we strike for several days?
The factory is not closed, if two people cannot work.
Someone might think that is to pressure the company and its owner.
Others think: "This is a mistake." "We die with hunger".
"We don't have anyone." Who gave us food? "
Workers are satisfied, and the same thing happens.
Why do I have to be angry, if I get a salary for my work? It's not just the boss barking.
Here the workers bark each other and are angry with each other.
I don't even know who the boss is or what he did.
I don't know anything about him.
I know the factory port. I am a worker and work here.
I know my department and my room. That is all.
That's all. From here to nightlife and come back here.
I don't know who the boss is or what he looks like.
I don't know anything.
My family income doubled in 12 years.
There are no more.
Their income has quadrupled...
What do these illiterate people do? With that money...
... they buy tobacco -
or alcohol.
Or something else that is dangerous.
They waste their money.
Don't spend money at home sending.
Most of them don't care about their family.
Half of them don't care.
Their wives and their children go where they are.
Women wash dishes in someone's home -
or on the way.
Men don't bother. Half of them like that.
Indians can only motivate through payment.
Please add more. I want more!
They understand only one thing, money.
Today is this. Before that was the opposite.
People who have been working _ from the beginning, 12 years, -
Now get almost ten times more than that.
But then that is very honest, -
that I can appreciate it.
But now he gets 10 times more and doesn't care about anything.
If there are problems, they are not hers.
Previously he was responsible for them.
Now he has become indifferent.
The government calls to pay it, -
that he feels comfortable.
But I feel, -
that if is very good that he can save his salary, -
he becomes indifferent and he thinks: "Hi the whole company!"
Before the stomach is empty, -
so he worries about the company as his stomach.
Now the stomach is full, and he gets extra money.
The company is pushed into coal. He doesn't care about that.
What are you drawing here?
Due to dryness, nothing grows.
We are farmers. We lost the last crop.
Then we plant potatoes. 20 Rupees per pound.
We sell 5 stones per kilogram.
How much is a farmer's loss?
He loses 15 rupees per kilo.
What is the money for? Childrenschooling?
Or on cultivation? How do we buy seeds?
When losing 15 rupees, only 5 rupees are left.
The family must feed with five lines.
Must pay also children's school.
Otherwise, children leave the house.
So I have to go to the factory to work.
Must find work.
No one has seen these things.
There are people here. They listen for a moment and leave.
No one wants to do anything.
You ask us about our problem.
Why don't you do anything, when we tell you?
Try to get your turn 8 hours!
12 hours shift shorter.
If you can do it, do it. Suitable for workers.
Everyone will support it.
We will follow anywhere. We will leave work.
Isn't that right?
Why did you come here, say honestly.
You listen to us and leave, like a minister.
They come here, keep talking and going.
For us, the worker is familiar.
If you really want to do something for the workers, -
tell us what to do.
My only concern is that everyone will die on time.
No one is involved with that.
Rich people also go empty-handed.
Dedicated to the workers behind the fabric and for all, who made the film possible.
Finland: Kalle Mattila Yle