[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')ore than 300 young foreigners, packing candy in a warehouse in Pennsylvania, staged a high-profile walkout and protest against their employers and the State Department, which oversees the program. They alleged that they had been worked to exhaustion and had met few Americans except supervisors who pressed them to pack faster and threatened to have them deported.

“My parents agreed to send me because it would be a way to improve my English,” wrote Aysel Kiyaker, a student from Turkey who paid $3000 for her airfare and work visa. “They told us the job would be easy and fun and they would have pizza parties for us.”

Instead, Kiyaker found herself lifting heavy boxes on long shifts in the rural factory, owned by the Hershey Company. “After work my whole body was numb,” she wrote in an affidavit for the National Guestworker Alliance. She said one friend was threatened after she complained, and another was fired for not working fast enough. “After that happened, people were more afraid.”

...

But the bad publicity stunned and embarrassed the State Department. Officials there promised to investigate the alleged abuses and review the program, which brings more than 100,000 foreign students to the U.S. every summer. This week, department officials said they are planning a major overhaul to prevent such problems from recurring and reinforce the program’s diplomatic purpose.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/national-security/foreign-students-say-visa-program-abused/2011/10/26/gIQAbsUESM_story.html

[Cog]

I'm going long on Hershey is this is their business model. There is money to be made here and I'm not going to miss this gravy train.

[Hoops_Mckann]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'I')'m going long on Hershey is this is their business model. There is money to be made here and I'm not going to miss this gravy train.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Hoops_Mckann', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'I')'m going long on Hershey is this is their business model. There is money to be made here and I'm not going to miss this gravy train.

[Cog]

I'm a Libertarian by the way. We like making money too.

No one is forcing these kids to come over here. Work is hard. That is why its called work instead of play. They will learn more in that factory than they will hanging out on Facebook.

Either way Sixstrings, isn't the State Department being run by the Democrat-In-Chief Hillary Clinton? Perhaps you should be bugging her instead of the forward thinking and profitable Hershey Corporation.

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')With all the millions of jobless in this country, why is the federal government and companies like HERSHEY importing slave wage visa workers?

These are clearly sweatshop factory conditions. "Work faster or you get deported." No cultural exchange as promised, no contact with Americans other than hard labor in the factory. Company housing, that they have to pay for, leaving them with $40 - $140 for 40 hours hard labor.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')With all the millions of jobless in this country, why is the federal government and companies like HERSHEY importing slave wage visa workers?