Kick-Off Rally for Indian Worker Hunger Strike  

Indian guestworkers and supporters rally to kick off a hunger strike to demand an federal investigation into the guest worker program and abuse of post-Katrina Gulf Coast workers. In late 2006, the workers mortgaged their futures – and $20,000 – on false promises of fortune and green cards by recruiters from marine construction company Signal International. But when the workers arrived in the US to work on post-Katrina reconstruction, they only received guestworker visas and were forced to pay Signal $1,050 a month to live in a trailer with 23 other workers. Click here for further background information.

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