Posted on 01/31/2008 9:54:55 AM PST by Froufrou
About 100 people who came from Nepal to work at a north Alabama factory seemingly vanished from a pair of apartment buildings, along with a lot of furniture and appliances, and can't be located, officials said Tuesday.
Immigration agents are trying to determine what happened to the Nepalese workers, among hundreds brought to the United States to work at a DVD factory operated by Cinram Inc., said Lauren Bethune, a spokeswoman for the Alabama Department of Homeland Security.
"We do not in any way consider it a security threat, but we do think it is important," she said.
A Huntsville television station, WAAY-TV, first reported on the missing workers.
Cinram's human resources director, Peter Hassler, did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment. But a spokesman for a company that recruited the workers for Cinram said a contact in Nepal believes many of them have returned home.
"Most of the people he was talking to said they came to America, did what they wanted to do and went back home," said Doug Wilson, president of Ambassador Personnel in Thomasville, Ga. "These are people with pretty strong family ties."
Mary and Tim Snopl told the TV station they rented apartments in two buildings last fall to about 240 workers from Nepal. But Mary Snopl said scores of the workers are now missing, along with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of furniture, televisions and kitchenware.
"I don't know if they're living in Huntsville or somewhere else, I just know they aren't living with us and they aren't working at Cinram," she said.
Wilson said his company was seeking a list of items believed to be missing.
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The Dalai Lama teleported them back home.
They can’t even get their Javascript on their web site right (try using the menu on the left-hand side):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinram
Cinram is currently valued at over 2 billion dollars.
Just damn!
Many East Europeans come here (Alabama) annually to work in the tourist hotels/resorts, etc.
"It's possible that they had work visas, they expired, and they went home," she said.
Most people have better record-keeping systems for their recipes than these incompetents.
To paraphrase that great American Ron White... They took off! They took off! They took the f**k off!
Workforce, Dec, 2000
How Cinram Hired a Heap of Help—in a Hurry.; Millenium Search Inc. - Cinram Inc. Huntsville, Alabama
Cinram had to hire an extra 500 employees in seven weeks.
>>”Why are workers from Nepal working in a factory here in America in the first place?”
Many East Europeans come here (Alabama) annually to work in the tourist hotels/resorts, etc.<<
Nepal is not located in Eastern Europe. The Himalayss are no where near the Carpathian Mountains.
Some workers are from Jamaica,Nepal,Bolivia,and Ukraine.Mo' Brooks was mad because Cinram was given special tax breaks in order to locate in Hunstville,to provide local jobs.Those tax breaks were $300,000 in 2007.
Yeah, my recipes are strewn all over just one cabinet. But I can find ‘em. I’d like to know why the temp agency is off the hook for this.
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I'm very aware of that. My sons girlfriend (UC Davis) works for USAID in Katmandu.
I've sailed completely around the world four times. You?
From WIKI:
Until 2006, Nepal, with over eighty percent of its population Hindu, was officially a Hindu state, the only one in the world. On May 18, 2006, Nepal was declared a secular state. On December 28, 2007, the interim parliament passed a bill and declared Nepal to be a federal democratic republic.[3] The current king, Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, will be the last king of Nepal if the present ruling parties win the April 2008 elections.
>Mary and Tim Snopl told the TV station they rented apartments in two buildings last fall to about 240 workers from Nepal. But Mary Snopl said scores of the workers are now missing, along with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of furniture, televisions and kitchenware.<
Since these people were recruited it seems a change in rule has occurred; can they even go home now?
Didn’t they make a movie about some poor sap who had to live in an airport because of a coup in his home country while he was in flight to visit America?
Great, now there’s a shortage of sherpas in Alabama. That will ruin the local mountaineering economy.
"An eastern immigrant finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there."
“Mary and Tim Snopl told the TV station they rented apartments in two buildings last fall to about 240 workers from Nepal.”
Apartments in TWO buildings for 240 people? My, how cozy.
Call Skip-Tracers!
The company brought in about 800 from some islands. It must be a very large company but I had never heard of it before the controversy about bringing in those workers. People here did not like it one little bit.
I really want to know how 100 people just go ~poof!!~
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