This is why we, meaning progressive, thinking, compassionate people, LIBERALS, must keep on keeping on.
Post-Katrina New Orleans is a dangerous, oppressive place for the working poor who labor on the front lines of the city’s recovery effort, according to a report released Thursday by a Washington, D.C.-based legal center.
“The treatment of workers in New Orleans constitutes a national crisis of civil and human rights,” said the report by the Advancement Project and the National Immigration Law Center, which interviewed more than 700 workers over several months only to find glaring examples of unfair labor practices, homelessness and even harassment by police officers and contractors.
The report bluntly depicts racist, bleak times for those on the working end of construction equipment or the service industry, and details the experiences over the past months of migrant workers from out of town, many Hispanic and Asian, and also of blacks born and raised in New Orleans.
“New Orleans is being rebuilt on the backs of underpaid and unpaid workers perpetuating cycles of poverty that existed pre-Katrina,” wrote the authors, who include attorney Judith Browne-Dianis of the Washington-based legal aid group, the Advancement Project, and Marielena Hincapie of the National Immigration Law Center.
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3 comments:
It is not just in Louisiana this is taking place, believe me, I have never been treated so bad by an employer, as in at this time. As far as I can tell, it's a national trend.
National trend? Isn't it more like a global trend? I've been overworked and underpaid all my life and I blame no one but myself.
Curtis, you can blame yourself all you want, but you'd be wrong every time. Unless, of course, you were somehow convinced that being anti-union & pro-corporate was the way to go. I don't think you are that evil, are you?
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