"SPEED IT UP A LITTLE!"
Posted on 08/18/2011 6:56:48 PM PDT by blam
Foreign Students Walk Off Hershey’s Factory Job In Protest
By Liz Goodwin
August 18, 2011
Hundreds of foreign students on a State Department cultural exchange visa program walked off their factory jobs in protest on Wednesday.
The J-1 visa program brings foreign students to the country to work for two months and learn English, and was designed in part to fill seasonal tourism jobs at resorts and seaside towns. The 400 students employed at a Pennsylvania factory that makes Hershey's candies told The New York Times that even though they make $8.35 an hour, their rent and program fees are deducted from their paychecks, leaving them with less money than they spent to get the visas and travel to the country in the first place.
Some of the students were assigned night shifts, and said they were pressured to work faster and faster on the factory lines.
Hershey's said they didn't hire the students when the Times asked:
A spokesman for Hershey's, Kirk Saville, said the chocolate company did not directly operate the Palmyra packing plant, which is managed by a company called Exel. A spokeswoman for Exel said it had found the student workers through another staffing company.
Last December, the AP revealed that federal immigration officials were investigating two human-trafficking abuse cases related to J-1 visas. Strip clubs openly solicited J-1 visa holders in job listings, and some foreign students told the AP they were forced into sexual slavery when their passports were confiscated by a ring of criminals. About 150,000 J-1 visas were given out in 2008. Businesses save about 8 percent by using a foreign worker because of Social Security and other taxes they do not have to pay.
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Welcome to America - lol
...kindof sucks to actually have to improve your lot in life without all the freebies and anchor baby stuff - huh...
GO HOME!
Lots of Americans looking for work, and they can probably be pressured to speed things up.
I work in the town of Hershey and they still have a plant here. Its smaller because they moved some of its operations to other states and Mexico. These nuts protesting need to go back to where they came from jobs are tight and even these crappy 8 bucks an hour should have gone to the locals.
No problem with companies importing foreign slaves or indentured servants into the USA?
Interesting.
Send the spoiled assholes back to where they came from.
"SPEED IT UP A LITTLE!"
This is an overt effort to reinstate slave labor as an institution in america. Student ‘visas’ for factory jobs? They think american citizens are really stupid don’t they?
Doing more with less. Didn’t the rookie Hussein proclaim that?
Hmmm...hopefully there’s a Presidential Candidate out there that will clean “Bammy’s clock over jobs going to non-American Citizens....
I have some relatives who came here with genuine immigrant visas after a 10 year wait. They work at restaurants and the $ per hour works out to less than that. YOU START AT THE BOTTOM.
They should be immediately terminated. You’re not a student, if you’re working full-time in a factory. Those jobs would be and should be filled by Pennsylvanians.
Deported Now
Hershey’s doesn’t make M&M’s....
And right there is the gist of the problem. They can legally work them for 8% less than locals.
In Japan, foreign workers are much fewer in number (I was one of them) and actually grateful to the host country for the opportunities offered because companies have to pay them at least a 10% premium over what it pays to the locals.
So? The J-1s don’t have to pay the employee side, either. And, quite frankly, it doesn’t make that much difference because what matters is not who writes the check, but who loses the economic value, when a tax is paid, and as numerous studies have found, the employees generally end up bearing the economic burden of the payroll taxes, regardless of who has to write the check to Uncle Sugar.
In other words, even though those employers don’t have to write those checks, they aren’t significantly better off in terms of wealth than the employers who do have to write those checks because, at the end of the day, it’s the employees who are bearing the loss of wealth that goes to pay those taxes.
I'm sure they've seen Algore's movie, and thought global warming was in full swing over here, with the the ocean having risen far enough that white caps would be lapping at the city limits of Hershey/Palmyra, PA.
Oh well...there's always the Poconos come winter...IF there's any snow.
Send their little a@@ home.
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