Comments on: Newsweek on modern-day "slavery" in New Orleans http://katrinacoverage.com/2005/11/27/newsweek-on-modern-day-slavery-in-new-orleans.html Analyzing the news reports and politics of the New Orleans hurricane. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:48:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Newsweek on modern-day "slavery" in New Orleans by: roux http://katrinacoverage.com/2005/11/27/newsweek-on-modern-day-slavery-in-new-orleans.html#comment-92 Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:59:48 +0000 http://katrinacoverage.com/2005/11/27/newsweek-on-modern-day-slavery-in-new-orleans.html#comment-92 "Milton Martins, an undocumented Brazilian working for a demolition company, complains of backbreaking work and abysmal living conditions—triple bunks packed into a stench-filled salon in a downtown hotel. “It’s a trash dump,” he says. “This is human slavery in America.” Even worse, he says, the contractor hasn’t paid some of his co-workers in full." Then go home. I was at a McDonalds in Slidell. $8.50 to start and there were incentive bonuses. The Burger Kind was offering a $6K bonus if you would work fulltime for 6 months. There are help wanted signs all over NOLA. I can't believe they are all for $6 an hour. Total BS. "Milton Martins, an undocumented Brazilian working for a demolition company, complains of backbreaking work and abysmal living conditions—triple bunks packed into a stench-filled salon in a downtown hotel. “It’s a trash dump,” he says. “This is human slavery in America.” Even worse, he says, the contractor hasn’t paid some of his co-workers in full."

Then go home.

I was at a McDonalds in Slidell. $8.50 to start and there were incentive bonuses. The Burger Kind was offering a $6K bonus if you would work fulltime for 6 months.

There are help wanted signs all over NOLA. I can't believe they are all for $6 an hour. Total BS.

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