Interns rebel over heavy lifting work at dairy plant
By Xu Chi |
April 10, 2012, Tuesday
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LIFTING up to 10,000 boxes, each weighing about 2.5 kilograms, and packing and unpacking them for almost 14 hours a day.
That's what more than 70 junior students of a vocational school in Jiangsu Province say they are doing under an internship arrangement at a Mengniu Dairy Co factory in Ma'anshan, Anhui Province.
Instead of learning all about the industry by working for China's dairy giant, the students say all they are learning about is how to do manual labor.
Students with the Jiangsu Animal Husbandry and Veterinary College told Jiangsu Education TV the college had said they would work eight hours a day.
The program, aired yesterday, said the school also promised students would "learn the whole process of how dairy products were made."
One male student, who was not named, told the program: "The truth is that I'm working from 6am to 6pm every day and have to spend another extra hour walking to the factory and back to my dorm. My only job is to lift the boxes up and down, pack and unpack them from the beginning of the day to its end. I could only lift 8,000 boxes per day before, but after days of exercising, I could now lift 10,000. That's all that I have learned from the internship."
When some of the students called the school asking to end their internships they were told they could be expelled if they stopped work without permission, the program said.
A male manager surnamed He with the factory told Shanghai Daily the students had to take the box-lifting job because other posts were not safe for beginners. "The work might be hard and boring because we wanted to teach the students that it was very hard to earn money."
A college official surnamed Xu told Shanghai Daily the school had worked with the company for the past six years. "But this year, these students seemed like they cannot bare any hardships in their life," she said.
After working for a certain period, students might be transferred to other posts at the factory to learn more, but some didn't have the patience to wait for that to happen. Xu said that talk of possible expulsions might have been the result of a misunderstanding.
That's what more than 70 junior students of a vocational school in Jiangsu Province say they are doing under an internship arrangement at a Mengniu Dairy Co factory in Ma'anshan, Anhui Province.
Instead of learning all about the industry by working for China's dairy giant, the students say all they are learning about is how to do manual labor.
Students with the Jiangsu Animal Husbandry and Veterinary College told Jiangsu Education TV the college had said they would work eight hours a day.
The program, aired yesterday, said the school also promised students would "learn the whole process of how dairy products were made."
One male student, who was not named, told the program: "The truth is that I'm working from 6am to 6pm every day and have to spend another extra hour walking to the factory and back to my dorm. My only job is to lift the boxes up and down, pack and unpack them from the beginning of the day to its end. I could only lift 8,000 boxes per day before, but after days of exercising, I could now lift 10,000. That's all that I have learned from the internship."
When some of the students called the school asking to end their internships they were told they could be expelled if they stopped work without permission, the program said.
A male manager surnamed He with the factory told Shanghai Daily the students had to take the box-lifting job because other posts were not safe for beginners. "The work might be hard and boring because we wanted to teach the students that it was very hard to earn money."
A college official surnamed Xu told Shanghai Daily the school had worked with the company for the past six years. "But this year, these students seemed like they cannot bare any hardships in their life," she said.
After working for a certain period, students might be transferred to other posts at the factory to learn more, but some didn't have the patience to wait for that to happen. Xu said that talk of possible expulsions might have been the result of a misunderstanding.
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