NoSlaves.com http://blog.noslaves.com Cyberactivism on Trade, Economics and Labor Arbitrage Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:25:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 NoSlaves.com – A New Community Site for U.S. Techies and American Professionals http://blog.noslaves.com/noslavescom-a-new-community-site-for-us-techies-and-american-professionals/ http://blog.noslaves.com/noslavescom-a-new-community-site-for-us-techies-and-american-professionals/#comments Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:09:03 +0000 Bob Oak http://blog.noslaves.com/noslavescom-a-new-community-site-for-us-techies-and-american-professionals/ Noslaves.com has a complete new design. Here is the overview from the main page:
Welcome to the new Noslaves.com I hope this site will be used by all U.S. techies, labor groups, Professionals and any other American who wants policy change and support for the high skilled American workforce. Please consider creating an account, reading the About section, user guide and try posting a comment or create a forum topic to start a discussion. We need Americans to come together and fight for our right to have job security and a decent livelihood. This site is a CMS, or content management system and has advanced web 2.0 technologies to help U.S. workers speak out and fight for their livelihood and careers. It's here for U.S. workers to help them speak up in a very loud voice that enough is enough! Our time has come! Please join us.
Give it a Whirl!
Site features include your own blog, the ability to create your own forum topics, an email system that is secure, the ability to forward anything you want to any social networking system, such as twitter or slashdot, threaded comments for discussion and a privacy mode for post drafts. There…
]]> http://blog.noslaves.com/noslavescom-a-new-community-site-for-us-techies-and-american-professionals/feed/ 0 Is Wipro Engaging in Discrimination In the United States? http://blog.noslaves.com/is-wipro-engaging-in-discrimination-in-the-united-states/ http://blog.noslaves.com/is-wipro-engaging-in-discrimination-in-the-united-states/#comments Thu, 21 May 2009 08:48:33 +0000 Bob Oak http://blog.noslaves.com/is-wipro-engaging-in-discrimination-in-the-united-states/ 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…
]]> http://blog.noslaves.com/is-wipro-engaging-in-discrimination-in-the-united-states/feed/ 5 When Up Against the Wall on Facts….Play the Race Card http://blog.noslaves.com/when-up-against-the-wall-on-factsplay-the-race-card/ http://blog.noslaves.com/when-up-against-the-wall-on-factsplay-the-race-card/#comments Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:07:56 +0000 Bob Oak http://blog.noslaves.com/when-up-against-the-wall-on-factsplay-the-race-card/ 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…]]> http://blog.noslaves.com/when-up-against-the-wall-on-factsplay-the-race-card/feed/ 8 Vivek Wadhwa Promotes Age Discrimination Against U.S. Workers http://blog.noslaves.com/vivek-wadhwa-promotes-age-discrimination-against-us-workers/ http://blog.noslaves.com/vivek-wadhwa-promotes-age-discrimination-against-us-workers/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:07:14 +0000 Bob Oak http://blog.noslaves.com/vivek-wadhwa-promotes-age-discrimination-against-us-workers/ research trying to claim immigrants are critical to the U.S. economy.   Every single time,  U.S. workers are ignored, the underemployment of U.S. citizens is discounted, and most of all, the wholesale, institutionalized age discrimination that fires workers over the age of 35 and replaces them with a steady stream of cheap young labor from other countries is endorsed. In Vivek Wadhwa's constant promotion of workers who are not U.S. citizens,  once again the prejudice against Americans shows:
the vast majority of these returnees were relatively young. The average age was 30 for Indian returnees, and 33 for Chinese...
Wadhwa is referring to the workers leaving the United States and returning to their home countries. Note the focus on the keyword young.  The implication is if one is experienced, older, magically their talents are no longer worthwhile.   This is age discrimination at it's best and interwoven through the United States technology companies. Somehow, these companies now believe one loses their ability to even tie their own shoes when one hits age 35. Senators and Congress Representatives:   How would you feel if you were told you were over the hill and could not be in the U.S. Senate as a result?   That…]]> http://blog.noslaves.com/vivek-wadhwa-promotes-age-discrimination-against-us-workers/feed/ 2 It Should Be U.S. Citizens Preferred on H-1B, not temporary guest workers http://blog.noslaves.com/it-should-be-us-citizens-preferred-on-h-1b-not-temporary-guest-workers/ http://blog.noslaves.com/it-should-be-us-citizens-preferred-on-h-1b-not-temporary-guest-workers/#comments Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:03:48 +0000 Bob Oak http://blog.noslaves.com/it-should-be-us-citizens-preferred-on-h-1b-not-temporary-guest-workers/ best and the brightest or worker shortage or skills we cannot find, it is outright labor arbitrage. Corporations fire U.S. workers and replace them with guest workers because it's cheaper and also for their offshore outsourcing agendas. The scenario goes like this. A U.S. worker who is highly skilled, exceptional job performance hits say age 35. Magically a younger worker on a guest Visa needs to be trained by that experienced worker. Then, magically that U.S. worker is fired. Bloomberg and Reuters while acknowledging these corporations are keeping H-1B and L-1 foreign guest workers and firing Americans, go on and on about the plight of being unemployed for a H-1B Visa holder. Wake Up Journalists! It is not like if a H-1B goes home, magically they fall off the edge of the world. There are some very nice U.S. savings which go pretty damn far in costs of living in many of these countries. And you…]]> http://blog.noslaves.com/it-should-be-us-citizens-preferred-on-h-1b-not-temporary-guest-workers/feed/ 6 Microsoft Axes Americans – Senator Chuck Grassley Asks Why Not Temporary Guest Workers? http://blog.noslaves.com/microsoft-axes-americans-senator-chuck-grassley-asks-why-not-temporary-guest-workers/ http://blog.noslaves.com/microsoft-axes-americans-senator-chuck-grassley-asks-why-not-temporary-guest-workers/#comments Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:26:29 +0000 Bob Oak http://blog.noslaves.com/microsoft-axes-americans-senator-chuck-grassley-asks-why-not-temporary-guest-workers/ none in India.  Of course Microsoft lobbies for more cheap labor which displaces U.S. workers so these massive layoffs are the height of hypocrisy. [flash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs-4cW_Pfl8] Senator Chuck Grassley wrote a letter:
January 22, 2009 Mr. Steve Ballmer Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond , WA   98052-6399 Dear Mr. Ballmer:   I am writing to inquire about press reports that Microsoft will be cutting approximately 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months.  I understand that the layoffs will affect workers in research and development, marketing, sales, finance, legal and corporate affairs, human resources, and information technology.    I am concerned that Microsoft will be retaining foreign guest workers rather than similarly qualified American employees when it implements its layoff plan.  As you know, I want to make sure employers recruit qualified American workers first before hiring foreign guest workers.  For example, I…
]]> http://blog.noslaves.com/microsoft-axes-americans-senator-chuck-grassley-asks-why-not-temporary-guest-workers/feed/ 4 New DOL Secretary Solis Giving a Sign of Hope For U.S. Professional Workers? http://blog.noslaves.com/new-dol-secretary-solis-giving-a-sign-of-hope-for-us-professional-workers/ http://blog.noslaves.com/new-dol-secretary-solis-giving-a-sign-of-hope-for-us-professional-workers/#comments Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:48:38 +0000 Bob Oak http://blog.noslaves.com/new-dol-secretary-solis-giving-a-sign-of-hope-for-us-professional-workers/ In terms of H-1B Visas, what is your position on that?  The below video clip in her answer.  [flash http://blog.noslaves.com/content/SolishearingH1b.flv] Folks, keep writing, speaking out and demanding your legislators pass S.1035 intact.]]> http://blog.noslaves.com/new-dol-secretary-solis-giving-a-sign-of-hope-for-us-professional-workers/feed/ 3 Cheap Science…Scientists That Is http://blog.noslaves.com/cheap-sciencescientists-that-is/ http://blog.noslaves.com/cheap-sciencescientists-that-is/#comments Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:41:37 +0000 Bob Oak http://blog.noslaves.com/cheap-sciencescientists-that-is/ blockbuster report on how PhDs, Post Doctorates are being paid peanuts.     There is also an active agenda to wage repress the nations Engineers and Scientists in research through use of the H-1B Visa program. [flash http://www.noslaves.com/blog/content/cheapscience.flv] The article mentioned in this report is Taken for Granted: Brother, Can You Spare a Temporary Worker Visa?]]> http://blog.noslaves.com/cheap-sciencescientists-that-is/feed/ 6 Sponsors of More H-1B Guest Worker Visa Bills Who Lost Their Seats http://blog.noslaves.com/sponsors-of-more-h-1b-guest-worker-visa-bills-who-lost-their-seats/ http://blog.noslaves.com/sponsors-of-more-h-1b-guest-worker-visa-bills-who-lost-their-seats/#comments Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:54:06 +0000 Bob Oak http://blog.noslaves.com/sponsors-of-more-h-1b-guest-worker-visa-bills-who-lost-their-seats/ wet dream as his chief of staff, how exactly did those who sponsored H-1B or other guest worker Visas devised to labor arbitrage U.S. citizens fare in this election?
  • Gordon Smith [R-OR] - Sponsored S.1029 a major H-1B increase plus promoted more guest worker Visas in his campaign
    •    Lost to Jeff Merkley - Numbers to be updated
  • John Sununu [R-NH] - Sponsored S.2839, a major H-1B and F-4 bill
    • Lost to Shaheen, 52% to 45%
  • Elizabeth Dole [R-NC]- Co-Sponsored S. 2868, which gave anyone a green card or Visa who simply obtained an advanced degree, a true disaster for US workers
    • Lost to Hagan, 53% to 44%
  • Tom Feeney [R-FL 24] - Co Sponsored H.R. 1930, yet another massive H-1B and F-4 increase against United States Professionals
    • Lost to Kosmas, 57% to 41%
  • Thelma Drake [R-VA-10] - Co-sponsored H.R. 1930
    • Lost to Nye, 52% to 48%
Could there be a mandate, completely unnoticed by the Press that Americans want our representatives to put U.S. Citizens, American workers first for jobs in America?   One major lobbyist group already issued a press release letting the entire world know that they not only own Obama but are guarateed to get their labor arbitrage agenda passed, regardless of what the American workforce thinks.…]]> http://blog.noslaves.com/sponsors-of-more-h-1b-guest-worker-visa-bills-who-lost-their-seats/feed/ 4 Obama & McCain on Professional Workers – Bottom Line American Workers, YOU’RE SCREWED! http://blog.noslaves.com/obama-mccain-on-professional-workers-bottom-line-american-workers-youre-screwed/ http://blog.noslaves.com/obama-mccain-on-professional-workers-bottom-line-american-workers-youre-screwed/#comments Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:06:03 +0000 Bob Oak http://blog.noslaves.com/obama-mccain-on-professional-workers-bottom-line-american-workers-youre-screwed/ you are royally screwed by both candidates.  John McCain wants to increase H-1B Visas.  So does Barack Obama.  Think either of them are putting U.S. workers first?  Think again!  Neither of them will even co-sponsor S.1035, the reforms for H-1B.  L-1.    Never even crosses their lips! Both McCain and Obama issue corporate lobbyist talking points that have no basis in economic reality, completely ignoring the brain drain for the United States. When U.S. workers. U.S. professionals become underemployed, labor arbitraged with all of that skill and talent sitting idle, America further inches towards third world status by refusing to invest in it's people and build up expertise from it's own citizenry. Even worse, the F-4 Visa, is a dangerous agenda for it tries to turn our entire educational system into a glorified green card machine. Imagine what will happen if Americans are forced to compete to even gain entry into our education system against the world's population. That is indeed was is proposed and both candidates endorse it. As usual, both candidates put U.S. citizens last. Both candidates endorse global labor arbitrage, make no mistake. [flash…]]> http://blog.noslaves.com/obama-mccain-on-professional-workers-bottom-line-american-workers-youre-screwed/feed/ 5