Shangri-La, Alabama.
Yes, it really pays to hire ILLEGALS .... .
Or has the state cracked down on EMPLOYERS hiring ILLEGALS?
Is THAT why they vanished along with the goods?
(Didn’t read the article, suprise me.)
100 people from Nepal in one factory? How many people could a DVD factory in Alabama possibly employ?
That’s strange, the two seven-elevens that are near where I live are run by Nepalese.
Therre was a big stink raised about bringing them here in the first place.
My first guess is that if they took refrigerators and sofas and other furniture, they weren’t flying out of Huntsville Intl Airport. Smart money says they didn’t return to Nepal.
They mean that local workers weren't willing to work at $8 an hour and no benefits, more likely.
Somehow I find it hard to believe that these Nepalese took a whole bunch of stolen furniture with them and flew back to Nepal with it.
Finger-Pointing Continues Over Missing Foreign Workers at Cinram (100 Nepal workers missing in AL)
It amazes me how little anybody knows in this story.
The landlords have no clue where they went, but know they took the landlord’s property with them. The employer can’t figure it out, it appears. Unsurprisingly, DHS is utterly clueless that these people exist in the first place. And the “reporter” is uncurious about the whole thing.
Damn that sneaky immigration enforcement run off the cheap help.
“Pete, do you have them? I don’t have them.” Doug Wilson, president of Ambassador Personnel
“No, I thought you had them? Where’d they go, Doug?” Cinram’s human resources director, Peter Hassler
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
"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.
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.
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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.
“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.