Freedom From Fear Awards: Welder Frees Workers From Texas Labor Camps - New America Media:
It was 2002 - a group of Indian American volunteers, and the local India Association of North Texas (IANT.org) in Dallas got wind of a situation in nearby Tulsa, OK, where apparently a group of Indian men were being held in slavery like conditions by a company which paid a recruiter to trick them to coming to the US for a better life. The volunteers collected supplies and money, and drove to Tulsa to meet the men, give them support, and publicize their suffering. Eventually, all of them were freed...click here for more details...
Not sure where they are now, but here we find another similar situation 9 years later...
"The recruiter painted a rosy picture of life in the United States – a well-paid job as a welder at the shipyard company Signal International, a shared apartment with three other workers, transportation to and from work and good food. Around 500 other welders and pipefitters from all over India and Gulf countries were lured by the same recruitment firm with a similar promise.
The offer was hard to pass up, and the men arrived in the United States in 2006 and 2007, filled with hope to make a comfortable living, which would allow them to bring over their families in a few years.
But shortly after their arrival, those hopes evaporated as they faced oppressive living conditions and other broken promises at the two Signal shipyards in Texas and Mississippi."
It was 2002 - a group of Indian American volunteers, and the local India Association of North Texas (IANT.org) in Dallas got wind of a situation in nearby Tulsa, OK, where apparently a group of Indian men were being held in slavery like conditions by a company which paid a recruiter to trick them to coming to the US for a better life. The volunteers collected supplies and money, and drove to Tulsa to meet the men, give them support, and publicize their suffering. Eventually, all of them were freed...click here for more details...
Not sure where they are now, but here we find another similar situation 9 years later...
"The recruiter painted a rosy picture of life in the United States – a well-paid job as a welder at the shipyard company Signal International, a shared apartment with three other workers, transportation to and from work and good food. Around 500 other welders and pipefitters from all over India and Gulf countries were lured by the same recruitment firm with a similar promise.
The offer was hard to pass up, and the men arrived in the United States in 2006 and 2007, filled with hope to make a comfortable living, which would allow them to bring over their families in a few years.
But shortly after their arrival, those hopes evaporated as they faced oppressive living conditions and other broken promises at the two Signal shipyards in Texas and Mississippi."
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