Hershey......not so sweet

[marmar]

Roughly 200 foreign students and AFL-CIO union members have gathered to protest The Hershey Co.'s policies on foreign workers. The protesters first stood outside one of The Hershey Co.'s main distribution facilities in Palmyra, then moved to the Chocolate Workers Union downtown.

The students, who are working in the United States through the J1 Visa program, are asking the company to review its policies for foreign workers.

The warehouse is operated by Exel, an Ohio-based logistical firm that provides services for businesses in the Harrisburg area.

The foreign workers are primarily college students who signed up — and paid for — a three-month cultural exchange program. The program is designed to bring them to the United States, where they will work in and around Americans. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/08/foreign_guestworkers_union_off.html

[Brickbat]

1. After they screwed their U.S. workers, I stopped buying Hershey's.

If they screw U.S. workers, they'll screw foreign ones, too.

[jwirr]

2. Our small community had a hotel corporation that brought foreign

students into work - they put them up in a house that they had to pay the corp. rent for and paid them less than minimum wages, worked them long hours, etc. Our community handled it by organizing the community to give the foreign workers better jobs, churches arranged housing and so on. The corporation was out of luck and they never tried that again.