Slavery comes to TX, MS, HI and WA

[Donnachaidh]

http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2011/04/slavery-comes-to-tx-ms-hi-and-wa.html

This is just lovely. Hundreds of Indian shipyard workers and Thai farm laborers were brought to the U.S. and enslaved by their "employers," according to the federal government.

Reuters reports:

A federal agency has sued over unequal treatment of more than 500 workers from India recruited to work at shipyards in Mississippi and Texas and over 200 Thai farm laborers brought to Hawaii and Washington state, officials said on Wednesday.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission contends the workers were forced to live in substandard housing and exploited with fees, to the point where some had net earnings of nearly nothing.

The EEOC said the treatment of the Thai and Indian workers amounted to human trafficking, even though they were brought to the country with work visas.

"Human trafficking" is another way to say "slavery."

More at the link --

[leftstreet]

1. K&R

[rocktivity]

2. There aren't Americans in LA and TX who are qualified to work in shipyards?

If not, the VERY least they could have done was traffick them from other states!

:eyes:
rocktivity

[theHandpuppet]

6. Well, problem is...

American workers expect a living wage and at least some basic benefits.

[joeybee12]

7. Yeah, like being able to leave at night....

I really think this problem is much more widespread than we currently know.

[Yavin4]

3. Human Trafficking Involves More than Sex Work

However, we seem to only care about human trafficking when it comes to prostitution because we need the titillation in order to find our moral high ground.

If it's factory work or farming or even child care labor, we don't give a crap about human trafficking because we're getting a great deal on the price of the labor.

[midnight]

4. I wonder what federal agency is investigating this?

[Faux pas]

5. Why doesn't this suprise me?

:mad: :( :cry:

[n2doc]

8. They just aren't being forward thinking enough- use prisoners!

After all, they are our legal slaves unpaid workers! :sarcasm:

[femrap]

9. Let's jut call them

Slave Masters/Owners....that's what they are...Human Traffickers is too politically correct. I've read it's the biggest gig of the day....better than drugs.

[felix_numinous]

10. The economic model now in place

Capitalism without Socialism--is a human rights nightmare. We are in a Depression--without the New Deal protections we will digress into 3rd world conditions, the trajectory is already happening.

Empty Consumerism attempts to cover all of this up with lots of cheap shiny things, entertainment and infotainment, but the veneer is certainly wearing thin.

I hope that in this upcoming 2012 election, we DEMAND a New Deal-->FDRs 2nd Bill of Rights<--it is crucial that we have these protections. We need a candidate that has this platform!

Much of the world's human rights conditions follow that of the US, so as we go downhill and we lose oversight, theirs becomes a living hell.

Posting FDRs 2nd Bill of Rights speech again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoFLH8D7Xys&feature=related