Hobart Americall Employees Walk Out
Posted by: JT in Barack Obama, Election, McCain, News, PoliticsFrom TalkingPointsMemo.com:
Some three dozen workers at a telemarketing call center in Indiana walked off the job rather than read an incendiary McCain campaign script attacking Barack Obama, according to two workers at the center and one of their parents.
Nina Williams, a stay-at-home mom in Lake County, Indiana, tells us that her daughter recently called her from her job at the center, upset that she had been asked to read a script attacking Obama for being “dangerously weak on crime,” “coddling criminals,” and for voting against “protecting children from danger.”
Williams’ daughter told her that up to 40 of her co-workers had refused to read the script, and had left the call center after supervisors told them that they would have to either read the call or leave, Williams says. The call center is called Americall, and it’s located in Hobart, IN.
I’ve sent an e-mail to Americall, considering they are right near my house, telling them how these tactics are to be regarded.
From my e-mail:
To whom it may concern,
It has come to my attention that personnel at the Hobart branch of Americall Group have been directed to disseminate inflammatory and slanderous messages directed at Barack Obama and other Democratic politicians to prospective voters.
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/dozens_of_call_center_workers.php
Hearing that telemarketers under your employ are to be denied wages for standing up against these mercenary tactics, if true, is despicable. Being that your Hobart office is blocks away from my house this makes news of these events even more infuriating, that “hired-guns” are spreading lies and misinformation right behind our backs.
I should hope that along with your entrepreneurial aspirations for making money the same effort will be made to maintain ethical business associations, and perhaps attention be given to the accuracy of your messages. Buying into this loop-hole of the robocalling ban makes your corporation no better than paid character assassins.
There’s nothing like being forced by your employers to lie and work against the individual you wish to vote for. Gotta love the last few days in the battleground states.
