Thursday 21 April 2011
Workers brought into US and 'exploited' ☀
A US federal agency has filed lawsuits over the unequal treatment of more than 500 migrant workers from India brought into the country to work at shipyards in Mississipi and Texas, and over 200 Thai farm labourers brought in to work in Hawaii and Washington state.
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said on Wednesday that the workers were forced to live in substandard housing and were exploited with fees that meant that for some their net earnings were almost zero.
The EEOC termed the treatment of the workers as amounting to human trafficking, even though they had been brought into the country on work visas.
