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In early to mid 2012 there was a major incident with CJ's Seafood, a crawfish processing firm in Louisiana that was partnered with Walmart, that eventually gained media attention for the mistreatment of its 40 H-2B visa workers from Mexico. These workers experienced harsh living conditions in tightly packed trailers outside of the work facility, physical threats, verbal abuse, were forced to work day-long shifts, and much more. Many of them were afraid to take action about the abuse due to the fact that the manager threatened the lives of their family members in the U.S. and Mexico if the abuse were to be reported. After eight of the workers grew the courage to confront management at CJ's Seafood, management denied the abuse allegations and the workers went on strike. The workers then took their stories to Walmart being that they were CJ's biggest business partner. While Walmart did an investigation on the situation at hand, the worker began collecting signatures and eventually reached 150,000 supporters who agreed that Walmart should stand by the workers and take action. In June of 2012, the visa workers held a protest and day-long hunger strike outside of the apartment building where a Walmart board member resided. Following this incident, Walmart announced it's final decision to no longer work with CJ's Seafood. Less than a month later, the Department of Labor fined Cj's Seafood "approximately $460,000 in back-pay, safety violations, wage and hour violations, civil damages and fines for abuses to the H-2B program. The company has since shut down."