Companies 'Blackmailing' / 'Silencing' American Workers Replaced By Foreign Workers On Temp Visas

[easyt65]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/u...-to-zip-lips-on-way-out-grow-bolder.html?_r=0

"American corporations are under new scrutiny from federal lawmakers after well-publicized episodes in which the companies laid off American workers and gave the jobs to foreigners on temporary visas.

But while corporate executives have been outspoken in defending their labor practices before Congress and the public, the American workers who lost jobs to global outsourcing companies have been largely silent.

Until recently. Now some of the workers who were displaced are starting to speak out, despite severance agreements prohibiting them from criticizing their former employers."

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"You criticize, you speak out, you lose your severance package. Just go away quietly."




When Microsoft's CEO testified before Congress he stated (LIED) that there aren't enough qualified American workers and that this is why he and other companies need more Temp Visas to bring in foreign qualified workers (who they can pay less). The very next week hew / Microsoft reportedly fired over 100 US employees and replaced them with foreign workers.

Hey, Microsoft:

 

[Dragonlady]

It is time for American workers to start getting a fair shake. Past time.

 

[SwimExpert]

Getting rid of these kind of temp worker programs would be a double win. We'd have more Americans working, and we'd be improving wages all at the same time. Yet we won't do it because it would just make too much sense. Oh, and because it requires Congress to actually give a care about the people.

 

[Clementine]

 

[Dragonlady]

Getting rid of these kind of temp worker programs would be a double win. We'd have more Americans working, and we'd be improving wages all at the same time. Yet we won't do it because it would just make too much sense. Oh, and because it requires Congress to actually give a care about the people.

As long as you have a Republican Congress and/or Senate, no laws giving workers additional rights will pass. Republicans view every right bestowed upon workers as an infringement on the ability of their employer to make money, over-burdening the employer with regulations, or their favorite charge "It's a proven job-killer".

Raising the minimum wage is one of those things, and despite it being a "proven job killer", unemployment is going down in areas where the MW has been raised. Counties with higher minimum wages have *gasp*, lower unemployment rates. Areas of the US where the minimum wages have already gone up through their local governments, are seeing the same effect.

Supply side economics, on the other hand, has proven to increase deficits, increase welfare spending, and lower the rate of growth, as proven by both the Reagan and Bush administrations, and yet here you are getting ready to vote in a guy who promises to cut taxes to create jobs. It didn't work under Reagan, and the stock market crashed. It didn't work under Bush and W's crash nearly took down the world's economy with it.

If you think that manufacturing jobs are coming back, you're dreaming in techni-color. The same with fossil fuels. America succeeded as a nation because it was progressive. It embraced the industrial revolution while Europe resisted the infrastructure improvements necessary to power and operate the factories. Innovators like Henry Ford created the assembly line, Bell revolutionized communications with the telephone.

There are new and emerging technologies which Americans are ceding to the Japanese and the Scandanavians in regards to wind turbines, and other green energies. The is a lot of money to be made in embracing the idea of climate change, green energy, and 21st Century technologies.

Yes, there will be some temporary displacement - that's already happened with manufacturing. The idea has to be to find other work which pays a living wage, for those who previously worked in manufacturing.

Reducing American reliance on imported oil, means than Americans will no longer have "interests" in the Middle East. These people have been killing each other since the days of the Ancient Egyptian civilizations and before. They're very determined about it and no good comes of getting involved with them. There are no good guys over there. There are just various shades of awful, and God help their citizens.

 

[rdean]

Trump does that with his companies. His minions are such fools.