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Guest Workers Fired After Protesting “Slave” Conditions

By immigrationprof

An article for New America Media by David Bacon (here) reports that guest workers from India have accused a Mississippi shipyard of exploiting and treating them like slaves.  Hundreds of guest workers from India are protesting conditions in a Pascagoula shipyard that immigrant rights activists compare to slavery. Many of the workers gathered in a church on March 11 in this Gulf Coast port, after their employer, Signal International, threatened to send some of them home. Signal is a large corporation that repairs and services oil drilling platforms around the world.

KJ