Huntsville Has Most H2B Workers in US

According to this article in The Huntsville Times, because of CINRAM Huntsville has the most H2B workers of any place in the country. There is also reports that CINRAM is bringing more in. This seems counterintuitive to the last reporting where the workers were leaving due to lack of work.

Somebody Finally Invetigating CINRAM H2B Workers Situation

According to The Huntsville Times, the NAACP and a fair housing advocacy group have begun an investigation into the CINRAM's H2B workers situation. I figured this would have happened sooner. They are just looking at the apartments they are being put in right now. We will have to see where this goes, but it certainly won't provide good publicity for the company or program. See this for more.

CINRAM Workers Scarpered

According to the Huntsville Times the majority of the Nepalese H2B workers left town to go work elsewhere. I do not know if that is allowed under the H2B program. It did say they are allowed to travel. See the article here. It seems they had received letters from CINRAM letting them know they were at-will employees, so they acted. To me it sounds like CINRAM was getting ready to let them go. Homeland Security said they are involved, so I don't know if there is any immigration violations.

CINRAM Case Gets More Curious

Channel 19 in Huntsville is now reporting that 150 Nepalese H2B workers from CINRAM are "missing". They did not explain if they returned to Nepal before the expiration of their visa, or they just disappeared into America. See the story here. If they did become illegal immigrants then the worst views of CINRAM's program have just been realized. If they went back to Nepal, then some people will be happy about that. The article, also broadcast on their 6:00 PM news shows, also says that they are being looked for related to stealing all of the furniture from the apartment houses they were living in. This is really strange?

H2B Workers Not Liking CINRAM

According to this article in The Huntsville Times; many of the H2B workers that CINRAM has hired are quitting and going home. The biggest reason cited to the paper is that they are not getting enough hours to pay their costs and send money home. Perhaps, due to the end of the Holiday Season, CINRAM has cut back on production. But as the more in-depth article last Fall showed the costs of the workers are significant. I would have thought there would have been more effort by some activist to intervene in that situation.

So just when it get quiet, the story picks up again.