Posted on Oct 30, 2022
"Modern day slavery": Foreign workers at U.S. bases face brutal hours, low pay
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After struggling to find work in his home country of Bangladesh, he said a recruiter offered him a chance to work in a restaurant thousands of miles away in Kuwait City for the equivalent of $660 a month.
"Modern day slavery": Foreign workers at U.S. bases face brutal hours, low pay
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Government Contracts
Camp Buehring
Slavery
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."He said he paid a recruiting fee, slept in a dilapidated building with no air conditioning despite extreme heat, and was forced to work without a contract, jeopardizing his ability to get medical care in a war zone.
”It was very horrible,” he said. “The job in Afghanistan was a very, very, very bad situation.”
GardaWorld, which owns Aegis, said Karim misunderstood his contract, and that he later quit his job during his shift.
The Pentagon knows about his case.
Karim was featured this summer in a video posted on a Defense Department website. It was part of a series titled “Survivor Voices of Human Trafficking,” compiled by the Combating Trafficking in Persons Program Management Office, one of the military’s key agencies trying to reduce abuses.
“We are grateful to these survivors,” the Pentagon agency wrote in the introduction, “who took the time to share their stories.”
..."He said he paid a recruiting fee, slept in a dilapidated building with no air conditioning despite extreme heat, and was forced to work without a contract, jeopardizing his ability to get medical care in a war zone.
”It was very horrible,” he said. “The job in Afghanistan was a very, very, very bad situation.”
GardaWorld, which owns Aegis, said Karim misunderstood his contract, and that he later quit his job during his shift.
The Pentagon knows about his case.
Karim was featured this summer in a video posted on a Defense Department website. It was part of a series titled “Survivor Voices of Human Trafficking,” compiled by the Combating Trafficking in Persons Program Management Office, one of the military’s key agencies trying to reduce abuses.
“We are grateful to these survivors,” the Pentagon agency wrote in the introduction, “who took the time to share their stories.”
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*sigh* Our forces trust contractors to provide support, but some sadly look the other way when human trafficking is involved...
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