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2. sure isn't in louisiana, where h-2b visa holders work 24-hour days.

June 20, 2012 (New York, NY) on Wednesday, members of my organization National Action Network and I met with eight Mexican guestworkers who went on strike on June 4th in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana to expose forced labor at a crawfish plant called CJ’s Seafood.

The workers described shocking conditions. According to strike leader Ana Rosa Diaz supervisors at CJ’s forced them to work up to 24-hour shifts with no overtime pay, locked them in the plant, and threatened to beat them. Ana recounted that CJ’s owners threatened to hurt their families in Mexico if workers organized.


http://www.guestworkeralliance.org/


NEW ORLEANS, LA—Walmart supplier C.J.’s Seafood has subjected 40 Mexican guestworkers on H-2B visas to forced labor, wage and hour violations, and discrimination, according to a worker complaint to the Department of Labor to be filed on Thursday, June 6. The workers will detail their charges and call on Walmart to eliminate forced labor among its seafood suppliers at a press conference at a New Orleans-area Sam’s Club at on June 6.

A group of workers went on strike from Breaux Bridge, Louisiana-based C.J.’s Seafood on June 4, reporting that the employer and supervisors have forced them to work up to 24-hour shifts with no overtime pay, locked them in the plant, threatened them with beatings to make them work faster, and threatened violence against their families back in Mexico after workers contacted law enforcement out of desperation.

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