Labor & Economic News Blog
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Iraq contractors on notice about forced labor
Iraq contractors on notice about forced laborSam McCahon proposed a simple solution to convince US-funded contractors working in Iraq to return passports to their migrant workers. Reaching in his pocket, the candid government contract lawyer pulled out a clip of folded US dollars and held it up. “This works,” he said, speaking at a conference on labor trafficking in Washington, DC, sponsored last week by the International Peace Operations Association, a trade group of private contractors specializing in military support services.
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