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This article really caught my eye.

Indian IT service provider Wipro is increasing the number of US and European workers it employs so its customers in the regions will not stop buying from it if protectionism increases.

At the launch of an All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG)in February, designed to improve trade between the UK and India, IT suppliers spoke about the dangers of protectionist economic policies.

Wipro, which employs 97,000, people, said it wanted to increase the number of employees outside India, and it is easier now because there are more available.

Currently, about 8% of its workers are from outside India.

Andy Gallagher, consultant at Compass Management Consulting, said Wipro is not alone in increasing the number of staff it has outside India.

He said certain roles are traditionally provided by staff local to the customer or by people from India.

“The offshore/onshore model, where you fly Indian staff over for a few months at a time,is losing its attractiveness.   Clients are beginning to say they do not get continuity when people come over on 90-day visa.    Also the cost difference between employing local people and flying people from India is reducing.”

He said more and more Indian companies are increasing their localised workforce for roles such as account management and relationship management.

Wait a second.   Wipro has 95,000 employees worldwide with 14 centers in the United States and 12,000 employees .

Yet Wipro obtained 2,567 new H-1B Visas in 2007 alone (these Visas are good for 6 years) and an untold number of L-1 guest worker Visas.   This implies the majority of employees in the United States are from India and not U.S. citizens.

So, why hasn’t Wipro and other companies operating in the United States been sued to hell and back again for discrimination?   Why are they not on the receiving end of a massive class action discrimination lawsuit?

Such numbers of only Indian nationality employees in the United States is a fairly obvious statistic.    From their own admission they are hiring almost exclusively one group of people.  So,  why are they still operating and  we do not have the Department of Labor along with the EEOC breathing down their necks and suing them to kingdom come?

How does Wipro and other Indian offshore outsourcers even get away with this?  The quotes alone from these executives should be enough for a massive class action discrimination lawsuit.  They deem it possible to consider an American now?  These statements clearly imply   they do not consider Americans for jobs in their own country.  That, by definition, should be a violation of U.S. EEOC law.

It’s not just Wipro either.   A host of outsourcing companies almost exclusively hire their countrymen, that is citizens of India, regardless of what country they operate in.

Why does CNBC allow someone to come on and spew nonsense?  That is the case of the below video clip. 

What is the issue?  Stopping the corporate practice of firing Americans and replacing those U.S. workers with cheaper foreign guest workers.  There is a fundamental divide where the issue is not immigration but simply a global cheap labor supply.  That divide in immigration of any kind is when new workers are not in addition to but in place of.

It’s clear from this rant Wadhwa doesn’t want that differentiation to be even realized. Vivek Wadhwa literally comes on this segment, with incredible fear mongering, mis-categorizes temporary foreign guest worker Visas as immigrants and also implies all of America are a bunch of xenophobes. Literally! This is the most idiotic rhetoric we’ve heard to date.

Fortunately Dr. Ron Hira was the other guest.  Hira patiently tries to present the facts of H-1B abuses as well as the methods to displace U.S. workers in the midst of such inane comments.  Hira manages to get a few facts out onto the airwaves and God bless him, the man is sticking to his Academia integrity and professional expertise.

Vivek Wadhwa also misrepresents the TARP H-1B Dependent employer law itself.  All the provision says is these companies, using U.S. taxpayer dollars, must consider qualified Americans first before hiring foreign H-1B Guest workers.

Even worse, Wadhwa has his own racist assumptions against Dr. Ron Hira in this video clip.  He assumes that Hira is not a U.S. citizen and would be the first to go under such laws. That is quite the insult!

Wadhwa, what spin is this crap and why insult an offshore outsourcing expert?  Firstly, U.S. citizenship, members of this nation are not one ethnicity or background.    What kind of assumption is this that U.S. workers are all white people? What kind of racism is that to be even allowed on television?

U.S. workers are of Indian ethnicity, Hispanic ethnicity, Chinese ethnicity, African ethnicity and by God, over 50% of them are also female!  Even more frightening is many U.S. workers are over the age of 35!  So, all of these hard working Americans are now racist xenophobes because they do not wish to expose the U.S. work force to global labor arbitrage? 

Wadhwa completely discounts Dr. Hira’s national origin, which is the United States, his objective professional expertise (i.e. the facts!), or how Americans are first and foremost….U.S. citizens. What kind of secret agenda and discriminatory assumptions are behind this rhetoric? Even worse, what kind of value does Wadhwa even put on U.S. citizenship? Does he view it as simply an additional business accomplishment, a feather, something to put on the resume so one can promote the interests of another country on American T.V.?

Perhaps it’s time to offshore outsource Wadhwa. Why anyone can spew name calling nonsense per the request of other nations as well as multinational corporations and their strong desire to control the world’s labor supplies….couldn’t we get this skill for $8.95/hr. if we simply use a H-1B guest worker or a L-1?

CNBC is actively trying to promote people as something to trade, as if global labor arbitrage is OK. No, it’s not a good thing, even for a national economy. CNBC spins putting U.S. workers first for jobs in their own country is un-American (putting your own countrymen first is un-American?).   CNBC completely misstates Senator Grassley by claiming he demands foreign born workers should be fired first.  That is not what Sen. Grassley is saying!  He is referring to temporary guest workers, these are H-1B and L-1 guest workers which is not the “foreign born”.  CNBC get your facts straight and stop the fear mongering!  Putting a national workforce first in it’s own domestic economy  is a national principle that should not even be debated.    Putting U.S. citizens as first in line for jobs in their own country is critical to stop the displacement of U.S. workers with cheaper foreign labor. I believe the world decided trading people was morally wrong a long time ago. Displacing U.S. workers for cheaper labor, facilitating age discrimination, encouraging offshore outsourcing of U.S. jobs, as well as giving away skills and training via U.S. workers, is not only morally wrong against citizens of this nation, but also is the race to the bottom for labor.   Considering where the nation is economically and how the entire United States middle class has been decimated and this very decimation is now destroying the national economy….one would think a financial network would figure this out.