Like swarms of locusts, Corporate lobbyists have surrounded the hill and taken legislative staffers hostage. As I type, various amendments are being renegotiated, gutted, moved around, renamed, folded in… All, all of this hush, hush last minute activity is per the demands of the Corporate Cheap Labor Lobby.
What happened to doing the right thing for America? What happened to the national interest? Where is the spirit of Mr. Smith?
Instead we have a scenario more like the fall of Rome, hordes of corporate lobbyists with Trojan Horse amendments, the silence of public debate or exposure, little legislation or representation for working America and most of all the incredible shrinking constituent.
Corporate lobbyists simply do not have the national interests of America at heart, in fact they have no hearts, so why would our representatives even let them past the door? Well clearly the dollar almighty is having a major effect.
While the legislation is a blessing for the corporate community, it is clear that from the perspective of American workers this bill includes a laundry list of shortcoming
This is the bottom line, this bill is bad for working America and both the AFL-CIO
and other many labor organizations realize…
Our goal is clearly NOT TO FIND a qualified and interested U.S. worker.
It’s on video, believe it or not, and even presented as a selling point to peddle their services by Cohen & Grigsby Law Firm. That’s right, this group of attorneys put an entire seminar on how to screw over the American worker on YouTube. Imagine that, a seminar from lawyers on how to make sure one doesn’t have to hire an American worker!
In the video attorneys explain how they assist employers in running classified ads with the goal of NOT finding any qualified applicants, and how they disqualify even the most qualified Americans in order to secure green cards for H-1b workers.
Our goal is clearly NOT to find a qualified U.S. worker … our objective is to get this person a green card … so certainly we are not going to try to find a place where applicants would be most numerous. - Lawrence M. Lebowitz, Vice President of Marketing, Cohen & Grigsby
And on getting rid of extremely qualified applicants:
If someone looks like they are very qualified, if necessary schedule an interview, go through the whole process to find a legal basis to disqualify them
Recently, Dr. Blinder, Princeton Economist, concluded
nearly all (35 of 39) STEM occupations are offshorable.
Ralph Gomory, President of the Sloan Foundation, testified:
In this new era of globalization the interests of companies and countries have diverged. In contrast with the past, what is good for America’s global corporations is no longer necessarily good for the American people.
Well, shift my paradigm….
Ralph Gomory just amplified and clarified a fundamental truth in international trade theory. In the theory of free trade, the goods of production are not mobile. Globalization on the other hand, allows productivities of scale to be offshore outsourced and thus globalization is not the same as free trade theory! Since productivity shifts are outside the realm of traditional free trade theory, the variables of production mobilities are precisely what needs to be analyzed for strategic policy initiatives to induce positive outcomes for the American people.
For the 1st time in history, primarily due to technological advances, we have corporations and nation-states being at odds with what is in…
