Thursday, October 27, 2005

Halliburton Hires Illegals for LA Katrina Work

Holy crap! CNN's Lou Dobbs must've had a coronary over this news (via USAToday): Federal officials are investigating how at least 10 undocumented immigrants performed hurricane reconstruction work at a naval base near NOLA. The illegals worked for BE&K, an Alabama-based contractor. BE&K is a subcontractor for Halliburton, which is doing the bulk of the reconstruction work at the base. The president of the Greater New Orleans AFL-CIO, said about 75 union electricians lost their jobs after the Bush administration temporarily suspended the Davis-Bacon Act, which guarantees the prevailing local wage for workers hired under federal contracts, which also cleared the path for undocumented illegals to be hired. Hmm... yet another example of US workers having their jobs outsourced to cheap labor.
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