Entries from August 2007

All hail! All sing praises of glory, raise ye voices in jubilation!
Some of those millions of jobs offshore outsourced to India are returning!!!!
From Fortune, India Conglomerate TATA is bringing jobs to Ohio.
Reno, Ohio, as the type of place that would be hit hardest by outsourcing - a small American town losing out to the invisible hand shifting jobs to places like Bangalore and Guangzhou. Instead, outsourcing is bringing the jobs to Reno
O Rly? Is that REALLY what TATA is doing?
According to the Enquirer
Gov. Ted Strickland met with local officials a couple weeks ago to brief them on the project, which would include transferring 300 jobs here and creating 700 new jobs

Ok, transferring jobs means a L-1 guest worker Visa, imported cheap labor, transfered from abroad. Note, creation of 700 new jobs does not say American jobs at all! One can create 700 new jobs but for H-1B, H-2B Visa holders or L-1 guest worker holders almost exclusively!
It gets worse. We have a bold faced lie in that they are trying to put quite the spin on the term insourcing.
From the same Fortune article:
The phenomenon has a name: “insourcing,” the term experts are starting to use when foreign multinationals…
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Tags: Outsourcing · Labor · H-1B

Here are a few great articles that deserve a wide audience or at least every United States working Professional should see them.
The first is an article in the American Prospect, by Dr. Ron Hira, How “Guestworkers” Promote Outsourcing. In the article, Dr. Hira shows how guest worker Visas, particularly the H-1B, actually accelerate offshore outsourcing .
The carefully orchestrated public relations blitz included support from editorial boards of major newspapers and well placed news articles. Most complained that America was shooting itself in the foot by not importing workers for jobs that Americans are incapable of performing. And if persuasion wasn’t enough, the technology industry used the not-so-subtle threat that it will simply shift the work offshore if it can’t import workers.

A number of presidential candidates have taken the bait by publicly supporting an H-1B increase. The deep pocketed technology industry has made it clear to them it wants something in return for being an ATM to the candidates.
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This is quite a sad truth on our Presidential candidates, with only Dennis Kucinich, on the Democratic side, having a position in favor of American workers.
The expanded use of H-1B and L-1 visas has had a negative effect on…
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Tags: Outsourcing · Labor · H-1B
A new study from Bond University says almost two-thirds of the 240 participants in an online survey said the local workplace tyrant was either never censured or was promoted for domineering ways. From Bad Bosses Get Promoted.

Even the BBC is asking what is going on with America’s economic policy by the article question The end of the American dream?
The AFL-CIO is having a My Bad Boss Contest Here is just one story:
My boss knowingly hired my stalker
Stalked at Work, Maine
My boss made me wait on a dangerous stalker and then knowingly hired him to bus tables on my shift. It happened about 13 years ago, when I was waitressing full-time at a well-known national chain. Working conditions were pretty terrible, but I was struggling to support myself and needed the job
From Fast Company’s Is Your Boss a Psychopath?
This view is supported by research by psychologists Belinda Board and Katarina Fritzon at the University of Surrey, who interviewed and gave personality tests to 39 high-level British executives and compared their profiles with those of criminals and psychiatric patients. The executives were even more likely to be superficially charming, egocentric, insincere, and manipulative, and just as likely to be grandiose,…
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Tags: Labor · Globalization