No, they were expecting to be payed what they wanted.
And what amount was that? Please explain.
Okay. Under the J-1 Visa program, the visitors have to have a job arranged for here before they can even apply for a work visa. They pay companies here $3,000 to $6,000 to find jobs here, then they sign contracts to work here for four months. The Hershey Company hired them at $8.10 an hour for a 40 hour week. Then they get here and they have to pay for housing, pay for food, buy clothes and whatever else they need to live here for four months. They have unskilled, entry level jobs in a warehouse doing grunt work; filling boxes with candy and lifting the boxes from one place to another. It is not high paying work, because it is a unskilled, entry level job in a warehouse. After they pay for their expenses, there is not much left of their check.
After a while, they realize that their profit from their job is not going to pay for the $3,000 to $6,000 they paid to get their crappy, low paying job. They want more money. The guy who paid $6,000 to get his crappy job at the $8.10 he agreed beforehand to be paid now has to have about a $9.27 raise to cover the $6,000 in the four months he has here. If he gets his raise, all the others will have to have the same raise, too, just to be fair. Over 100% raises for everybody. They can expect to be paid what they want to be paid, but it's probably not going to happen.
