Translators & interpreters demo

Pictures here of a demonstration yesterday by translators and interpreters against crook Joan Fernando Valls Fusté. Catalan translator Tina Vallès posts info noting that Valls Fusté has run up large debts with translators working for him since he started his translation business, Traducciones Maremagnum MTM, in 1999. He’s playing the old game of denying that any contractual relationship existed with his employees, but in his struggle to avoid liability he’s also doing innovative stuff like splitting himself into two personalities–Joan Valls and Fernando Fusté–and claiming that books were translated without the intervention of translators. This is apparently the first collective action of its kind in Barcelona, but I’m sure it won’t be the last: clients here tend to focus on speed and price (0.04€/word is typical) and payment problems are frequent. (If you want a laugh, Desbladet stylee, check out the English site of the regional government, the Generalitat, which traditionally doles out contracts to friends and family, and bugger the results.)

Trevor @ 8 July 2005 8:22 PM

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