'At the plant, Mr. Torres said, "the packing line gets really, really fast and stressful." Even though the plant was chilled below 60 degrees, he said, "I would be sweating all over."
Mr. Torres echoed many students when he said his lowest moment came with his first paycheck. After deductions by Cetusa for rent, utilities, bus fare and other items, he took home $85 for 35 hours of work.
"You wanted a cultural exchange," Mr. Torres was told by the group representative, he said. "This is America and this is the way we do things here."'
James
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/us/hershey-foreign-exchange-students-pleas-were-ignored.html?_r=1&hp
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> [WS:] This story has a good side too. It shows to the rest of the
> world that the US is a gigantic sweatshop with a smiley face painted
> over it, rather than a country of "milk & honey".
>
> Wojtek
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