Now it seems "Bringing Third World Values Home" would be a better slogan. These are the things that people get tired of, and I hope our system works to reverse it. Fast.

and then you'll earn that good wage. Last month a Thom Hartmann caller suggested "being a good worker" rather than unionizing!

reading from a prepared script.

They should leave their labor organizing ways back in the socialist paradises.

Even within my own realm of employers, I've had to butt heads and say no when someone wanted a J-1 visa worker to get around the H-1B cap or some other stupid reason.

Bottom line: J visa is for bona fide training or internship. It cannot be used to fill a position. It cannot be used as 'employment' and it cannot be used to get around H-1B rules simply because you're too cheap to pay the H-1B prevailing wages.

The problem is that the J visa is administered the U.S. Department of State. USDOS allows a certain number of third-party agencies to issue the DS-2019 (the form that entitles its holder to the J visa). These agencies are predatory scum who take advantage of foreign people who legitimately intend to come to the U.S. as a learning experience and to pad their resumes. Instead, they 'sell' the idea that the J position will be just like a real job, even if they represent to the U.S. government otherwise.

They don't have to pay a certain wage to the trainee/intern and they know the trainee/intern only has a maximum of 12 months (18 months in limited cases).

The J visa program as originally intended is a great way to improve cultural exchanges, but the way it is used 9 times out of 10 is simply for less-than-honest reasons.

but we know the truth

located in the same general area...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/17/student-guestworkers-at-hershey-plant_n_930014.html

Students from abroad strike. Americans sit there, glumly working for less money and dignity every year like lemmings and take it up the rear. One group of people thinks it has the best jobs, best health care, and best standard of living in the world, and the other group is right.

they will make it to the top. The average American has been tricked into fighting against themselves for the benefit of the rich and powerful. The history and the importance of unions are no longer be taught in school, but it's replaced with learning not to question authority.

until most Americans out of work are able to land a job.

Thank you for sharing so many stories on the labor movement. Not to hijack the thread but a group of I.W.W. members are on strike in Minneapolis. If anyone could help with the strike fund, that would be great. https://www.wepay.com/donations/sisters-camelot-strike-fund-donations

I sent the story around to several friends.

But the link isn't working.

minimum wage. As foreign workers- contracter companies have to pay them states minimum wage.(after they take out a cut for their profits) they even charge the Visa worker students fees to get into the 'student program'.

President Obama has asked Congress to raise the FEDERAL minimum to 9.00 an hour. That way all the states have to raise their minimum wage to match the 9.00 an hour.
You can bet on it ALL these companies who bring in visa workers to do all the jobs local Americans used to work, will start using American workers again.

If Congress will raise the Federal minimum wage to 9.00 an hour- like President Obama asked them to do recently.

unbelievable

good for them

http://www.qsrweb.com/article/209393/McDonald-s-guestworkers-claim-food-safety-and-wage-violations

Snip: Their accusations include:

As few as four hours of work a week at $7.25 an hour, with exorbitant housing deductions that brought their net pay far below minimum wage;

Shifts as long as 25 hours with no overtime pay;

Being packed into employer-owned basement housing, up to eight students to a room, for $300 each per month;

Threats to cut hours further and surprise home visits from the employer and McDonald's labor recruiter to suppress complaints; and

Being made to re-label expired salads as fresh and to keep unsold burgers that should have been disposed after 30 minutes up for sale for up to six hours.

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2013/03/foreign_student_workers_locked.html#incart_most-comments

Evidently they were allowed back in only after police intervened.

The workers can now WIN in court on this improper eviction issue.

On the heels of well documented abuses of the program at the chocolate factory it makes you wonder about her concern for workers.

That employers will do anything, say anything, to exploit workers. And all too often, they get away with it.