Ethics

McCain Call Center Workers Walk Off Job

By Ed Brayton

Here's an interesting story. Apparently a bunch of workers at a call center contracted by the McCain campaign to make calls slamming Obama have walked off the job in protest:

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.

Why do those workers hate America and love the terrorists?

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on November 01, 2008 (boomark / email).