Migrant Worker Hunger Strike
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Five migrant workers from India who are fighting their exploitation under the H2B "Guest Worker" program began a hunger strike last week.
The migrant workers are demanding the ability to stay in the U.S without the threat of deportation while working for fair wages, the right to participate in a criminal human trafficking investigation of their former employer Signal International as well as the US and Indian recruiters who cheated them, Congressional hearings into abuses of the guest worker visa program in the US Gulf Coast, and concrete action from the Indian government to protect future Indian workers.
The issues surrounding this strike effect us all. Immigration laws threaten to undermine many of the fair labor practices that organized labor has fought so hard to gain.
Read more about the hunger strike and what you can do to help by following the link below:
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The migrant workers are demanding the ability to stay in the U.S without the threat of deportation while working for fair wages, the right to participate in a criminal human trafficking investigation of their former employer Signal International as well as the US and Indian recruiters who cheated them, Congressional hearings into abuses of the guest worker visa program in the US Gulf Coast, and concrete action from the Indian government to protect future Indian workers.
The issues surrounding this strike effect us all. Immigration laws threaten to undermine many of the fair labor practices that organized labor has fought so hard to gain.
Read more about the hunger strike and what you can do to help by following the link below:
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To support them is to also support the American workers and all the workers of the world.
Please do all you can.
Slavery traffic is but one of the results of so-called "globalization" and free trade.
But, if it weren't for H2B there'd be just that many more illegal immigrants earning poor wages so . . . What can you do?