Cinram: Destroying America From Within
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Cinram, a DVD packaging company in Huntsville, Alabama, has started recruiting foreign workers who are willing to work 12 hour shifts for $8 per hour. They employ approximately 2500 workers with 1350 of them coming from Jamaica, Bolivia, Nepal, Ukraine, and the Dominican Republic.
Each year the U.S. Department of Labor issues 66,000 H-2B work visas. These are for unskilled, non-farm workers. Cinram is following the law, and the workers are here legally, but this doesn’t make me feel all warm and fuzzy by any means. There are obviously ways, as Cinram has shown us, to follow the law and still operate unethically. Madison County Commissioner Mo Brooks said that if this is the way Cinram wants to do business he would prefer they do it somewhere else.
I don’t blame any of the workers. They were presented with an opportunity to legally come to the greatest country on Earth; they were offered a good (relatively speaking) wage and an opportunity to better themselves and their families. They would be insane to reject an offer like that. My problem is with the company. When I say “company” I don’t want you to have a picture of some collective corporate structure. I want you to think about the individual, living, breathing people who have the opportunity to help local families, yet choose to go overseas to hire workers. I’ll bet these people would pimp out their own grandmothers to make a dime.
This is great information. I am appalled by the way American companies are actually doing this. I never realized that we (U.S. manufacturing) have to fight off and compete with “foreign” American competition too.
Keep up the great and informative post!
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