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job program
after the abuse at the uh... hershey
chocolate plant in pennsylvania where they found all these foreign students
who were here on exchange program
working in a hershey's factory
for basically slave wages
and
these foreign students
basically went on strike
held a press conference and since then
for china's state department
has responded
they issued new our rules on last friday
uh...
the deputy assistant secretary of state for private sector change that
departments gold or other religions was to bring the program back to its core
cultural purposes
in other words
you know we decided that it's probably best that the program is not just uh...
way to service uh...
slave labor
the five decade old summer work travel program brings more than a hundred
thousand foreign university students here each year to work-up for three
months
and then travel for a month the program which is a visa known as a j one
is designed to give students who are not from wealthy backgrounds a chance to
experience the united states
department said that the uh...
the work component of the program
guys a little too much weight
in the process
said there was a problem students being concentrated in single locations for
long hours in jobs the provided little or no opportunity
to interact with the u_s_ citizens
they were exposed to workplace and safety hazards
and subject into predatory practices through wage deductions for housing
sounds like the perfect american cultural experience today
how unfortunately these kids are not gonna get the wheel flavor
of what it is to be real american
they're no longer going to be allowed to work in warehouses or packing jobs
no night shifts
no jobs in the labor department designator hazardous to you
it will be placed in jobs involving gambling
traveling fares
massage or tattooing
is or anything else
these students are gonna be out of their it sounds to me like that ought to be
able to work
they won't be allowed a most factory jobs including manufacturing in food
processing
they'll be barred from mining oil exploration in most construction jobs
well as george bush um... said if you have the opera opportunity uh...
three jobs uh... you will have not have a sense of that of which is
uniquely american
thrill shame
looks like you're just gonna have to mix with the people