Das Osteuropa-Magazin
In this bus, Eastern European harvest workers, mainly from Romania, travel very early to work on fruit plantations in the small town of Sornzig between Leipzig and Dresden. Despite the Corona crisis, enough workers still come because they can earn significantly more here than at home. There was always criticism in Germany about the treatment of seasonal workers from abroad during the Corona crisis. For the meat industry, where massive corona outbreaks occurred again and again, the German government passed a new law yesterday that is supposed to eliminate the worst practices. The picture of the Leipzig photographer Felix Adler was taken while working on a reportage about the conditions of the 2020 fruit harvest in Saxony.