Gulf Coast Workers Protest

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Guest Workers From India Demand Reforms
Published: Thu, March 27, 2008 - 10:21 pm
Last Updated: Thu, March 27, 2008 - 10:28 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) - Some Indian workers who say they were lured to
the Gulf Coast by false job promises after Hurricane Katrina
complained today in Washington.
They demanded that their ambassador help stop what they call
human trafficking.
The workers say more than 500 Indian nationals paid recruiters
$20,000 each after they were promised permanent U.S. residency to
work for Signal International.
Signal is an oil rig construction and repair company.
Instead, they say they got ten-month guest-worker visas and
faced inhumane living conditions at company facilities in
Pascagoula, Mississippi, and Orange, Texas.
They sued Signal earlier this month.
Signal has denied allegations of mistreatment and says it will
stop hiring guest workers until more is done to prevent recruiting
abuses.
Signal also severed its contract with recruiter Global Resources
and plans to sue the firm.

if they had 20 grand to pay they didnt need to come here to work they could have lived very well in india no something not right

Posted by rosepetal on 04/10/08 - 2:03 pm • Report Abuse.   

If they would just commit a serious crime they could go to prison and they’d get three hot meals a day, free health care, a comfortable bed in a fairly spacious room, and cable television.

Posted by KxVx on 04/10/08 - 2:00 pm • Report Abuse.   

well people on welfare here need to go to india because i dont think welfare pays 20 thousand a year nope something not right with that group and we have a lot of really good paying jobs here in mobile you just have to be qualified

Posted by rosepetal on 03/28/08 - 2:06 pm • Report Abuse.   

We wouldn’t have to hire overseas if there was not WELFARE in our country, then everyone would have to go to work!!  Why work when welfare pays more?  Salary’s yes we are under paid in the south but our cost of living is not as much as in other parts of the US.

Posted by cmb1 on 03/28/08 - 2:02 pm • Report Abuse.   

how could they afford to pay 20,000 dollars sounds like they really need to go back home something not right here

Posted by rosepetal on 03/28/08 - 1:49 pm • Report Abuse.   

maybe signal will find the same profit,by sending them and their living quarters back where they came from,and raise their pay scales for the american worker like it should be anyway.
i am in the same industry and that is one reason i will not attempt to look at work in the mobile region,with all the work that is moving in.
if you look around even a little you will see that everyone is hiring for cheap wages, i ask the news media to please look into this and let the public see reality. my pay scales have went way down for cheap labor to move in from other parts of the world they live on a 100.00S and send the rest of it home to live like kings. i am pissed.

Posted by reality on 03/28/08 - 8:18 am • Report Abuse.   


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