The New York Times reported this Sunday that one national employer relied on the labor of more than 60,000 immigrant workers last year to cook, clean, and do laundry while living behind locked doors and barbed wire. The employer paid them only $1 per day – or in some cases, compensated them with nothing more than soda and candy bars. In one facility, people who organized a work stoppage and hunger strike were thrown into solitary confinement. Yet when asked to comment, federal authorities claimed that this is all completely legal and none of the workers were being coerced.
Posted on: Fri, 30 May 2014 16:43:07 +0000
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