Corrupt Korean Co. Smuggled Workers Into Georgia, Laborers Kept Like Slaves In Shared Housing

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- Georgia Governor Kemp cheated thousands of Georgian laborers out of construction jobs for his Korean overseers.
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'A corrupt Korean company smuggled workers into Georgia to build an electric car battery plant.' Daily Kos, 1/31/21.

Many Progressives are excited about the upcoming prospective “Green New Deal” which is already taking shape, even before formal Green New Deal legislation. Multi-billion dollar manufacturing plants for electrical vehicle batteries, providing 2000 jobs per plant, are already rising in Michigan and Georgia. Fossil fuel pipelines, already partly built like KXL, are being cancelled, at enormous cost.

But Trump’s former Georgia allies, couldn’t resist piling expenses onto Georgia tax payers. They deprived Georgians of millions on wages from this construction boom. Part of this drama played out in Hartsfield Airport in Greater Atlanta, one of the busiest airports in the world. The busy Customs agents took notice of the flood of Korean laborers who stated they were going to work at the new SK Battery Plant in Northeast Georgia.

Customs busted 33 of the construction workers for phony visas in one sweep of Airport arrivals from Korea. A traffic stop of a cargo van yielded another 13 Korean laborers who were expelled for 10 years. In contrast to President Biden’s pledge of American workers for American jobs, Trump’s minions had arranged for thousands of Korean construction workers to take $35/hour jobs in the United States from skilled US construction workers.

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Georgia politicians attended the groundbreaking of the SK plant, to throw a few shovelfuls onto the grave of living wages in Georgia. The owner and contractor kept the workers like slaves in shared housing, right when Covid-19 peaked in early 2020, with no protective gear provided.

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The construction unions infiltrated (“salted”) the job site with pro union workers, and obtained interesting amounts of information. They witnessed copious examples of life threatening construction practices...

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- 'Contactor Backs Out of Massive Battery Plant Deal Expected To Bring 2,000 Jobs To North Georgia,' 8/20,
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/contractor-backs-out-of-massive-battery-plant-deal-expected-to-bring-2-000-jobs-to-north-georgia/ar-BB18cDUs

The governor and officials from Korean company SK Battery made the big announcement that they had developed a $1.7 billion partnership to build a battery factory about 65 miles northeast of Atlanta in Jackson County. “I’m confident Georgia will be center for battery production for electric vehicles in the world,” Gov. Brian Kemp said at the time. But Channel 2?s Dave Huddleston has learned that one of the contractors for that massive project is no longer on the job.
It’s just the latest in a string of problems that have arisen since the announcement of the deal...

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1. Like Wisc. Gov. Scott Walker's $4.1 billion Foxconn,....

.... factory that went bust. Promise of good paying jobs that never materialize. But everyone else stuffs their pocket full of taxpayer's money but renegade on promises to deliver a big boom to the local and state economy.

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2. What a corrupt project and major fail