Hershey's

[AgentOblivious]

I've worked in a factory for 4 years now. What they described sounds fairly normal. If I only work 40hrs/week ill take home ~1200 per month. Minus rent, gas, insurance, food I would be very lucky to have 400 left over. IF I only worked 40hrs/week these people would be making more money than me. Lucky for me I work ~72hrs/week.

The only part of this video that really stood out was when the girl mentioned that she has to move 50kg (110lb) boxes. That is extremely heavy assuming its something that they do continuously through-out the day.

I think we need more info. No one mentioned if stuff like food was included in the deductions. Or if they were informed of the hourly rate/deductions before they came to America to work.

One thing I dont understand is why someone who's a Med major would ever apply to Hershey? She had to know it would have nothing at all to do with her major. So why would someone come from a third world country to work in America at a factory only to go back to third world country? Its not like it would even look good on a future resume...

According to CETUSA, they were all notified of the work, cost of rent, etc. beforehand. Then again, the example contracts that they gave in their press release were in english only, so who knows how much smoke was blown up the student's ass when they signed it, and how much they understood. My guess is that they consider it something along the lines of what backpacking in Europe would be for us.

I can't see why Hershey couldn't cut them some slack, considering how many taxes its avoiding paying, and how many dollars its saving not having to pay the union premium of their regular workers.

[eljefefx]

Overblown issue.

[IPD]

Overblown issue.

agreed. leave it to our resident canuck liberal to bandwagon how horrible shit is in the USA...while completely glossing over the conditions in chinese factories like foxconn and universally throughout UAE (and Qatar, i'd wager).

you know what? EVERYONE in the USA is in the 1%. EVERYONE. even the damn bum living in a cardboard box: 1%-er. stop bitching.

[green-lantern]

[a2j]

I can't speak for all of them, but some were willing to work. That was the main reason to come from a 3rd world countries to earn some money, or at least make enough to cover those $4k. some of them will return to their families, that are in debt because of this trip, and won't even have money to buy food.
I lived in 3 different places on a globe, speak 3 languages, I know the difference. US is not china, stop comparing these two. The way I see it, these workers got screwed big time. I'm sure NONE of us would want that to happen.