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| I'll admit to having considered forming an Immigrant Party here in ZH, to counter some of the otherwise-left-unchallenged SVP propaganda. I'm willing to bet that the average non-Swiss resident of ZH pays as much in tax as the average Swiss resident (possibly even more given the way Quellensteuer works) but gets far less in return and has no say in Switzerland's vaunted direct democracy.
Not, of course, that I believe it's unfair to pay for services you don't use as that's pretty much what progressive taxation is *about*, but the incessant attempts to promote a popular view that foreigners are just about the grabbing-for-the-big-piles-of-francs-and-passports rather mirror the kind of odious anti-immigrant sentiment the UK is plagued with at the moment, and I wish people were more forthright in challenging it constructively. | |
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| Swiss trade union Unia has launched a campaign against xenophobia as it seeks to counteract what it describes as the “current climate of exclusion in Switzerland”.
Unia said the goal of the “Without us – no Switzerland“ campaign is to demonstrate the importance of having foreigners living in Switzerland.
The union, the largest trade group in Switzerland, said it wants to give a voice to people who have had enough of “smear campaigns“. | |
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Surprised no one has picked up on this so far. Seems like the biggest union in Switzerland is starting a campaign against the SVP's campaign. They state that without foreigners there would be no swiss chocolate, no nurses, no builders etc... good to see something finally being done about the blatant racism that is the SVP.
I find it funny, there was an article in the 20min about the SVP new campaign and my work colleague said oh yeh their my party, I don't like foreigners in Switzerland" but yet he has being working with me for the last 6 months with no problem such hypocrisy
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