Have you ever noticed that when the United States has an increase in the trade deficit, the middle class reports stagnant wages, massive foreclosures, the number of Americans living in poverty jumps or massive underemployment surges, the pundits come out and call everyone a Protectionist?
How did the concept of protecting the United States economy and national interest end up being a dirty word?
Senator Bernie Sanders(I-VT) and Senator Chuck Grassley(R-IA) managed to get a increase in H-1B guest worker Visa fees attached to H.R. 3043: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008.
It appears that Costa Rica, the lone hold out in not ratifying the CAFTA-DR trade agreement, is now under enormous pressure and strong arm tactics.
We are on the eve of discovering
whether the bullying, propaganda, and threats worked or not. The ratification vote is tomorrow.
The inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has called for an end to the "stupid" male geek culture that disregards the work of capable female engineers, and puts others off entering the profession
the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied the emergency injunction filed by the Teamsters, Sierra Club and Public Citizen, saying the petition failed to meet legal hurdles. The case now must be argued before the court
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
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
Every day we hear about the great "worker shortage" in Science, Engineering, Technology and Mathematics and we need more H-1B guest worker Visas and how we need even more employer controlled immigration. Yet, repeatedly Front Paged the statistics show There is no worker shortage.
So, how come these very corporations are laying off Science Professionals in droves?
Yesterday we had an incredible betrayal of the Professional workforce by Maria Cantwell (D-WA). She has introduced S.Admt 1249 which will absolutely decimate Americans in STEM careers as well as target most middle class careers for labor arbitrage. Other Corporate representatives are Cornyn, Leahy and Hatch.
The Programmers Guild has already issued a damning report on what this amendment would do. This post is a must read.
With so many labor organizations and facts screaming in the face of Congress on how middle class jobs are being targeted for offshore outsourcing and labor arbitrage, why do our representatives seem hell bent on selling out working America?
Yesterday Senator Bernie Sanders managed to get an amendment accepted that takes a 3,500 fee, a minuscule drop in the bucket of total labor arbitrage profits from using cheap labor, to fund scholarships for Americans to go to college.
Yet, Corporations, who claim we need to invest in America whine that they shouldn't have to give back to America while they ship our jobs offshore.
an outrageous and onerous tax increase on our nation's most innovative companies, and could make the H-1B program cost-prohibitive, especially for smaller businesses.
