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...Students have even used green issues as the basis for their senior theses. According to an April 26, 2006 article in The Crimson, Jane H. Van Cleef ’06 opened a store in Inman Square that sold a line of self-designed, water-resistant clothes and accessories as part of her visual and environmental studies thesis. She called it The Climate Change Preparedness Center...
...Recruited by subcontracted agencies in their home countries, 290 workers arrived on 10-month H-2B visas (for non-professional, non-agricultural labor) from Bolivia, the Dominican Republic and Peru to work at the front desk, in maintenance, and as cleaning staff for Decatur's 15 luxury hotels throughout the New Orleans area. Decatur, founded in 1988 by Quinn and Edwin Palmer III, prides itself on turning abandoned historic buildings into boutique hotels. Decatur's lawyer Patricia LeBlanc told the Associated Press on Aug. 17 that the hotel firm sought to use the H-2B program for the first time...
...Three months into workers' visas - about the time they would have earned back their pre-arrival debt - many were taking out more loans just to get by. Under H-2B's terms, guest workers are prohibited from getting jobs outside of their contract; out of necessity, many did anyway...
...Orleans Workers Center, a community-based organization that advocates for workers' rights, the guest workers organized. Decatur's management improved the housing situations for most of the guest workers, but when it wouldn't budge on key issues, the workers sued and have since formed the country's first H-2B workers cross-employer alliance...
...This comes on the heels of the release of an alarming report "Close to Slavery: Guestworker Programs in the U.S." by the Southern Poverty Law Center, whose Immigrant Justice Project represents the Decatur workers. The report, issued Monday, details the widespread abuses of workers that enter the U.S. on H-2B and similar visas...