Nearly 100 Foreign Workers MISSING in Huntsville

Has anyone checked Franklin County?

Perhaps a UFO beamed them up?

Probably doing work no American wants to do.

I'm sure there is a one bedroom apartment somewhere screaming for mercy.

The link below gives a little more information on this, but I find it really hard to believe there aren't enough people in Huntsville or the surrounding areas that are available to fill those positions as the article says. Perhaps the company pays poorly, gives lousy benefits, overworks their employees? Bet this company steers clear of labor unions!

http://www.manufacturing.net/article.aspx?id=154408

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Originally posted by cjtl1000r:
I'm sure there is a one bedroom apartment somewhere screaming for mercy.

That cracked me up!

Smart money is on two places: Vancouver or NYC -- or perhaps back to Kathmandu or maybe Mumbai.

They'll all show up on a back country road in Madison County, missing time with vague memories of a bright light and anal pain.

They are at UNA posing as students and infecting folks with TB and SARS. I seen them at Wal-Mart tonight getting off the UNA van.

CINRAM - I don't blame them for taking off. That place is a sweatshop. They pay $8 per hour and the jobs are hard and the environment is dirty. They make CD's and DVD's. You can read more about them in this article: http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/...225113390.xml&coll=1

Personally, I think they are cheating us ALL by paying low wages and importing workers. This would be a text book example of how employers cannot force people to work for less than a 'fair' wage. Instead, this company has been allowed to circumvent the laws of economics and import cheap labor. Sickening.

This is really alarming to me. I heard a little bit about this VISA program they were here under. A company brings them here to work and they can stay here as long as they continue to work for that company.

I am concerned that if one of them disappeared rather than 100 of them, no one would notice. Does anyone else see this as a potential security risk?

I heard on the news tonight that they are NYC, waiting to go back to Nepal, but why would they all leave at once?

And this is just this company, how many more companys thru out the USA doing the same !!

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I am concerned that if one of them disappeared rather than 100 of them, no one would notice. Does anyone else see this as a potential security risk?

homesickgirl ,I too have the same thoughts. Our homeland security isn't working so well after all, to just loose 100 people?

I watched the news about this...very vague.. So this CINRAM recruits these people, pays them low wages. They may have found out they could make a little bit more somewhere else and headed on down the road. Some of these companies don't realize that eventually even the ones that come here thinking $8.00 per hour is really great money may find that $9.00 or $10.00 per hour jobs more appealing. Don't know the whole deal...but sounds like CINRAM got what they wanted and let them loose to find fortune elsewhere.

I can see both sides of this however. I worked for a company (construction) We had the American workers and some foreign workers...(legally here by the way) and had some of the Americans that didn't ever want to show up...but the foreign ones were there on time and worked hard. Also...making the same money...and at this company it was good money.(Union scale labor wages) So sometimes one can see if you want something done...and you don't have the "hometown" resources that you may look to other options. It may me in some cases some have gotten "too good" to do certain jobs. So if you don't like pulling heads of chickens for minimum wage...or even do a construction laborers job for $14.00...don't gripe if a foreign person comes up and can do it. Believe me...I am all for Americans working and doing great..but some (not all by any means) rather work a little draw alot of unemployment.

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.I am all for Americans working and doing great..but some (not all by any means) rather work a little draw alot of unemployment.

I just wanted to throw in here that Madison County has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the state. From AL.com: Madison County's unemployment rate rose to 2.8 percent in January, up from 2.5 percent in November and 2.6 percent in December. For the week ending Jan. 12, initial claims for unemployment benefits rose in Madison County compared with the same week last year, to 479 from 396.

So there are 479 folks in Madison County collecting unemployment. Cinram is going to have to pay wages high enough to either take workers away from retail jobs (McD's pays $9 an hour in Huntsville) or make it worthwhile for people to commute. $8 is just not going to cut it in Madison County.

http://www.waff.com/global/story.asp?s=7799159

Did anyone notice how many foreign workers were brought into Huntsville? No wonder manufactures are coming in here!

Read the article again. The manufacturers are importing the foreign labor. There is a dire labor shortage in this area. Unless these companies raise wages they will have to continue to import workers.

Read Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and pay particular attention to the Invisible Hand. Or read about it on Wiki: Invisible Hand - Adam Smith