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Guissona – 20 February 2025
1. Various of meat production factory line
2. Various set up shots of a technician, Mohamed Es-Saile checking electronic device
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mohamed Es-Saile, electromechanical technician at BonÀrea:
“Here in Guissona you feel like you live in a house with people from different countries, and it’s a good thing because you are able to meet people from other cultures and other countries. There is always something else to learn, there is always somebody more knowledgeable than you. It’s really good, I feel at home.”
4. Various of workers at ham production line and storage facilities
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Victor Razuri, electromechanical technician at BonÀrea:
“I am Peruvian. And back in Peru you don’t get to meet people from all over the world. When I arrived here, I met people from Ukraine, from Morocco, some of them Latinos, but mostly from Europe and people from Africa. People from different cultures and different mindsets, different languages. The adaptation was a bit difficult. Always with respect, feeling calm and paying attention to the indications. They put me alongside work colleagues to learn from them. So the whole process of adaptation was a bit difficult. But right now, I feel very good and integrated. We’ve formed a very nice work team.”
6. Various set up shots of head of human resources, Xavier Moreno at BonÀrea
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Xavier Moreno, BonÀrea’s head of human resources:
“We always try to explain why we hire people from other countries. It is not because we want to pay low wages, in fact the wages paid in BonÀrea are above average in the region for every worker. These people come here to do specific tasks related to the meat industry and these are jobs that local people don’t seek for different reasons. Either because there is full employment or something else.”
8. Wide of administrative office area
9. Various of office workers
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Diana Maria Pagu, office worker at BonÀrea:
“This is like my second home. It’s true that Romania will always be my homeland, as we go to visit there every year, but here we feel at home all the same because the locals treat us very well.”
11. Aerial shot of town of Guissona and BonÀrea factory ++DRONE SHOT++
12. Mid of Guissona town hall
13. Various of local people
14. SOUNDBITE (Catalan) Angelina Infante, local resident:
“We are lucky here because there is work for everybody. I am a teacher, and in doing this job you get to meet the families, and they are very grateful people. Everybody is very united. And you must make them feel that you’re willing to help them. I can’t just give them a piece of paper and expect them to sort it out for themselves, you must help them and make them feel they are cared for. And it’s a nice thing to do.”
15. Various of local worker prepparing kebabs
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16. SOUNDBITE (English) Pedro Aznar, Professor of Economics for Esade Business School:
“Spain is doing very well because Germany, that is more focused in industry, is suffering more from the economic conditions and the geopolitical tensions. But the second one is, because we are growing as we are enlarging the base of people that can work, thanks to immigration.”
Guissona – 20 February 2025
17. Various of workers at meatpacking production line
STORYLINE:
Spain’s economy grew faster than any other European nation and the United States in 2024.
Experts agree that this boom is largely due to the influx of foreign workers who have expanded the active labor force.
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