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Law Center: Rig Repair Firm, Apology for Mistreated Workers
Source: Associated Press
Law Center: Rig Repair Firm, Apology for Mistreated Workers
By CAIN BURDEAU, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW ORLEANS — Sep 29, 2015, 8:28 PM ET
A U.S.-based oil rig repair company has apologized to hundreds of Indian guest workers drawn to the Gulf Coast through false promises and housed in squalid conditions to help with damage repairs after Hurricane Katrina, a law center said Tuesday.
The apology is part of a $20 million settlement that Signal International of Mobile, Alabama, agreed to in July, the Southern Poverty Law Center announced Tuesday. That group and others, including the American Civil Liberties Union, had sued Signal on behalf of the guest workers and called it one of the largest labor-trafficking cases in U.S. history.
Signal hired roughly 500 Indian welders and shipfitters after the devastating 2005 hurricane in a rush of repair work on storm-damaged oil equipment and rigs.
The company sent a letter dated Sept. 22 to the guest workers, apologizing for its actions, according to the law center. Signal didn't return a message Tuesday seeking comment from The Associated Press, which obtained a copy of the letter.
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By CAIN BURDEAU, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW ORLEANS — Sep 29, 2015, 8:28 PM ET
A U.S.-based oil rig repair company has apologized to hundreds of Indian guest workers drawn to the Gulf Coast through false promises and housed in squalid conditions to help with damage repairs after Hurricane Katrina, a law center said Tuesday.
The apology is part of a $20 million settlement that Signal International of Mobile, Alabama, agreed to in July, the Southern Poverty Law Center announced Tuesday. That group and others, including the American Civil Liberties Union, had sued Signal on behalf of the guest workers and called it one of the largest labor-trafficking cases in U.S. history.
Signal hired roughly 500 Indian welders and shipfitters after the devastating 2005 hurricane in a rush of repair work on storm-damaged oil equipment and rigs.
The company sent a letter dated Sept. 22 to the guest workers, apologizing for its actions, according to the law center. Signal didn't return a message Tuesday seeking comment from The Associated Press, which obtained a copy of the letter.
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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/law-center-rig-repair-firm-apology-mistreated-workers-34138648
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