Workers from India protest conditions
The Rev. Timothy McDonald, pastor Chief Icone First Baptist Church in Atlanta, have supported the workers.
“This is the slavery of humans, simply,” says McDonald.
The workers were among the 500 who came from India, over the last year, after paying $ 20000 depending on the strength of staff working as an intermediary for an H-2B visa, activists say. The workers were promised a green card for the future, which means that, legally permanent resident in the United States.
Instead, she lived 24 to a room, $ 1050 each for the monthly rent, including poor diet, “said Stephen Boykewich, media, the director of New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice, helped organize workers.
The man had worked as a welder and assemblers cane for marking International, a provider of Northrop Grumman. The company’s main activity is in the maintenance and repair of oil rigs.
Signal said in a press release he is shocked and did not know that the agents of global investment and its major resource, Michael Pole, New Orleans and immigration lawyer Malvern Burnett, also had a strong royalty their employees come from the United States.
Signal Indian pay to the average workers $ 19.69 per hour, plus overtime, as well as health and other benefits, the company said.
Indian $ Employees pay a rate of 35 days to live, signal quality and housing, lodging, three meals a day, laundry service, satellite TV, Internet access and local transportation. Signal currently employs more than 100 workers H2B from India, said the company.
The workers who are protesting today, had visas which is good for 10 months, Boykewich said. He acknowledged that some are gone, perhaps because the legal framework has been a little more than a year ago. They left their jobs and were on their way to Washington, DC, to draw attention to poor working conditions in the scam.
“I think it could inspire others, workers Within come,” said McDonald
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