P.M. BRIEFING : Imported Workers Exit Germany
The new united Germany is using every available plane to send home Third World workers hired by the east’s former Communist leaders, officials said today.
More than 2,000 unwanted Mozambican and Vietnamese workers are returning home every week on charter planes from Berlin’s Schoenefeld airport.
“We just haven’t got enough planes to cope and are looking for more,” said Manfred Knack, head of charter sales at Interflug, the flag carrier of the former East Germany.
About 85,000 workers came to East Germany from socialist Third World countries under bilateral accords. Germany, which unified last week, has ended the agreements, leaving it up to individual companies how long they want to keep on foreign workers.
Germany is offering $2,000 and a flight home to foreign workers, many of whom have suffered racial attacks as scapegoats for East Germany’s economic collapse.
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