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‘Pleas helpp.’ Exchange student begs State Dept to get him out of factory job
A Moldovan student on a State Department foreign exchange program wrote the department a pleading e-mail complaining of the working conditions at a Hershey packing factory, The New York Times' Julia Preston reports.
For those who want to demonize "big corporations" like Hershey, you need to dig in these slanted pieces that this incident occurred at a plant that was a subcontractor of Hershey, not a Hershey plant.
Also, as I read the NYT article, I see the villian as Cetusa, not Hershey. They appear to be brokers of indentured servants, who skim money from the employers and the foreign employees alike. Government-funded pimps. I blame the State Dept as well. They have no business funding this kind of thing with our tax dollars.
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