Outrage Rises as New Orleans Replaces Striking Garbage Workers With Prison Labor Equal to “Modern Day Slavery” BY DANIEL JOHANSON ON MAY 12, 2020
https://scapimag.com/2020/05/12/outrage-rises-as-new-orleans-replaces-striking-garbage-workers-with-modern-day-slavery/ Last week, according to PayDay Report <https://paydayreport.com/prison-labor-replaces-striking-garbage-workers-in-new-orleans/> and Louisiana local news <https://www.wdsu.com/article/livingston-work-release-inmates-now-picking-up-garbage-in-new-orleans-east/32418004>, dozens of garbage workers employed by the temp service People Ready went on strike demanding proper safety equipment. The workers, who make only $10.25 an hour are also demanding hazard pay and paid sick leave. Many have responded in outrage about the practice, equating it with modern day slavery considering the prisoners pay rate and working conditions. <https://twitter.com/MikeElk> Mike Elk@MikeElk <https://twitter.com/MikeElk> · May 9, 2020 <https://twitter.com/MikeElk/status/1259285638999953408> <https://twitter.com/MikeElk/status/1259285638999953408> Striking garbage workers in New Orleans, making $10.25 an hour, were fired en masse this week. Now, they are being replaced by prison labor. https:// paydayreport.com/prison-labor-r eplaces-striking-garbage-workers-in-new-orleans/ … <https://t.co/Os5a52qOo5> Prison Labor Replaces Striking Garbage Workers in New Orleans On Wednesday, dozens of garbage workers, employed by the temp service People Ready, went on strike, demanding proper safety equipment. The workers, who make only $10.25 an hour are also demanding... paydayreport.com <https://t.co/Os5a52qOo5> <https://twitter.com/LivesKuato> Kuato Lives@LivesKuato <https://twitter.com/LivesKuato> Race to the bottom, now with modern day slavery. 189 <https://twitter.com/intent/like?tweet_id=1259298464686579715> 9:45 PM - May 9, 2020 <https://twitter.com/LivesKuato/status/1259298464686579715> Twitter Ads info and privacy <https://support.twitter.com/articles/20175256> 18 people are talking about this <https://twitter.com/LivesKuato/status/1259298464686579715> The practice is legal, even constitutional, as famously pointed out by Kanye West a couple years back. <https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/02/entertainment/kanye-west-13th-amendment-clarification/index.html> The 13th ammendment, which was ratified in 1865, abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime for which someone had been convicted. Prison work in Louisiana <https://theappeal.org/louisiana-prisoners-demand-an-end-to-modern-day-slavery/> dates back <https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=982097066117090106106000126112122066099037085046045000109118081099091107102101003090025030031007112048112097064099075096016087006085002001036065001123092094098019084040084053074093097070084074114071000010010073026083089084082099095007019012080027020064&EXT=pdf> to before the end of the Civil War, when the state built its first penitentiary, located in Baton Rouge, in 1837 and handed management over to lessees who then profited off the forced labor. Louisiana took control of the Angola plantation in 1901, housing prisoners in old slave quarters and forcing them to work in the existing cotton fields. As recently as 1979, prisoners at Angola were referred to <https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=982097066117090106106000126112122066099037085046045000109118081099091107102101003090025030031007112048112097064099075096016087006085002001036065001123092094098019084040084053074093097070084074114071000010010073026083089084082099095007019012080027020064&EXT=pdf> as “hands,” not unlike the way slave masters referred to slaves. *Click on the link for the rest.* -- If you appreciate News From Underground, please consider making a donation — either a one-time gift or a monthly subscription: http://markcrispinmiller.com/support/ Thank you for your support. Ways to unsubscribe: 1) send a blank email to [email protected] PLEASE NOTE: you must unsubscribe using the SAME email with which you subscribed 2) go to http://groups.google.com/group/newsfromunderground and click on the "Unsubscribe or change membership" link in the yellow bar at the top of the page, then click the "Unsubscribe" button on the next page. For more News From Underground, visit http://markcrispinmiller.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "News From Underground" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/newsfromunderground/CAGxB6W-nLLu_px0aF6eqaCdW_Unz0Y4e-X%3Dp98RU7CT5wvbx1A%40mail.gmail.com.
