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Foreign Guest Workers Being Used Instead of Brits Causes Strikes in the UK

Since when does free trade theory mean one is trading people, increasing the labor supply, displacing citizens of a region, repressing wages and avoiding the rights of citizen workers through specialty...

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Imported Cheap Labor Forced to Foot Bill for their own Exploitation

You might remember the huge outrage when instead of hiring local workers in New Orleans for Katrina reconstruction, companies imported cheap labor via guest worker Visas. The Bush administration also...

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The Poster Child For Worker Exploitation, Walmart Considering Offshore...

Walmart just cannot squeeze it's employees enough. Now Walmart is considering offshore outsourcing it's I.T. jobs. BANGALORE: WAL-Mart, the world’s biggest retailer, which until now has been dependent...

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Don't be a Guest Worker in Dubai - They have Debtor's Prison!

Almost every other nation is curtailing their imported labor due to economic contraction but this story shows just how complex it can get if you are imported labor in a country which is not your own....

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Do not Give IBM Stimulus Contracts

Do we really want our Stimulus money, U.S. taxpayer money going to India? Well, if they let IBM get at it we assuredly will. As the economy continues to reel from the worst economic downturn since the...

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Offshore Outsourcing Firms, Microsoft Top the List for H-1B Foreign Guest...

We have the new data for 2008 on H-1B. Computer World has published a searchable list of the top users of H-1B guest worker Visas.Microsoft Corp. was the top U.S.-based recipient of H-1B visas in 2008,...

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VHP group in India wants to Ban U.S. Products over H-1B guest worker Visas

This one is just too ridiculous. Since when is the United States responsible and must provide a guaranteed employment program for the citizens of India....for guaranteed jobs in the United States? You...

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BoA Pulls Jobs Offers to H-1B Guest workers

It seems our worker friendly clause which said TARP recipients first had to consider qualified U.S. workers before bringing in more foreign workers on H-1B guest worker Visas is working:Bank of America...

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Obama's CIO Vivek Kundra Previous Close Employees Arrested for Fraud, Bribery

This is one hell of a story. One week after President Obama announced his new CIO of the United States, the FBI raided the very office where Kundra just held the position of CTO and arrested Kundra's...

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L-1 Guest Worker Visa Leaves Fired Derivatives Workers in a Lurch

Bloomberg has a story which is supposed to tear at our heart strings but I have a different reaction. In profiling out of work derivatives technology workers, Fired Doctor of Derivatives Waits to Cry...

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IBM Fires another 5,000 - Offshore Outsourcing Jobs Right and Left

IBM is firing yet another 5,000 workers, offshore outsources their jobs and forcing highly skilled Americans to educate and train their cheap offshore replacements. In just the past 2 months IBM has...

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Obama Clueless on Offshore Outsourcing - Touts Corporate Talking Points

From an online townhall Obama claims:Now, a lot of the outsourcing that was referred to in the question really has to do with the fact that our economy -- if it's dependent on low-wage, low-skill...

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BoA, Wells Fargo, TARP Recipients, Forcing U.S. Workers to Train their...

Wells Fargo, a TARP recipient who bought Wachovia, is now forcing U.S. workers to train their foreign guest worker replacements before being fired. So is Bank of America.Are you thinking wait a second,...

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Sallie Mae Brings Back 2,000 offshore outsourced jobs back to the U.S.

This is a piece of good news:Sallie Mae said Monday that it will bring 2,000 jobs to the U.S. within the next 18 months as it shifts call center and other operations from overseas.Sallie Mae even...

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Study Says Outsourcing Not Big Savings

There is a new study on offshore outsourcing I.T. contracts which says instead of saving money by labor arbitraging workers, the costs can actually increase by 20%.While staff costs may be 40 percent...

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Complaining about Offshore Outsourcing Works - Keep it up!

Well, well. All of you folks screaming your heads off about offshore outsourcing of Federal, State and customer service jobs are having an impact. Keep it up!Department of Children and Families...

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Obama Gives USINPAC Lobbyists Yet another Official - CTO "Virginia is for...

Just unbelievable. Obama has appointed a CTO, Aneesh Choprawho was pushed for by USINPAC!If one doesn't know, this group, using Indians with U.S. citizenship, lobbies heavily to offshore outsource your...

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U.S. offshore outsources 22,000 "Green Jobs" in 2009

Remember the Stimulus and how we're all going to recover by getting those new shiny green jobs? Guess what, companies are offshore outsourcing them in droves:The US firms have offshored 22,000 green...

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GM offshore outsourcing U.S. jobs

Glad you supported GM getting U.S. taxpayer dollars? Want to see GM survive, prattling on how America needs an auto industry?Instead we get this, GM plans to shift overseas production:General Motors...

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Obama's Offshore Outsourcing Corporate Tax Code Change has no impact on...

You're going to love this one. According to Ernst & Young, Obama's majorly hyped tax incentive he's planning on plugging, which gives an incentive to offshore outsource your job, all of those...

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Employed Foreign Guest Workers Outnumber ALL Unemployed U.S. Technical Workers

This is an astounding story. Computer World is reportingH-1B workers outnumber unemployed techies:The government then points out that "in January of 2009, the total number of workers employed in the...

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G.E. Creates Green Jobs....in China

As previously reported, the U.S. Stimulus Bill is creating jobs....in India & China.Now we have GE Moving Green Jobs To China:Share

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Study shows over 30% I.T. Jobs being offshored

Computer World overviews some new data on just how badly I.T. jobs are being offshore outsourced or U.S. workers are displaced by foreigners on guest worker Visas.Okay, so where are U.S. jobs going?...

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Indian offshorers want to offshore outsource U.S. Government contracts & more...

From an obscure newsletter on Emerging Markets comes this report:Infosys and Wipro Set Up Units to Bag Government IT Outsourcing Contracts10/08/2009Infosys Technology and Wipro Technologies, two of the...

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Pope declares Outsourcing Immoral

From Manufacturing and Technology NewsThe Pope Pontificates: Offshore Outsourcing Is Amoral -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Richard...

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About that "shortage" of engineers.

A revealing article recently appeared in BusinessWeek. To cut to the chase, the authors found that there is no shortage of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) graduates in the United...

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The Stimlus Sieve - more funds & jobs offshore

A while ago we wrote about stimulus funds being offshore outsourced and 84% of green job stimulus funds are going offshore and some 22,000 green jobs created offshore.It seems the MSM is finally...

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Most of the job loss is from offshoring, not the recession

Most of the job loss is from off-shoring, not the recession.I point to an editorial on the Huffington Post by Sen. Fritz Hollings. He's calling out D.C. and saying Washington is plain committing fraud...

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Ohio Bans Use of Public Funds for Offshore Outsourcing

The governor of Ohio issued an executive order prohibiting use of public funds for outsourcing. Seems like a no brainer right? Don't use our taxpayer dollars to offshore outsource our jobs? Believe...

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25 companies responsible for 700,000 lost jobs

Daily Finance has compiled a list, from Challenger and Gray layoff data, of the top 25 companies with the biggest job losses this recession. From The Layoff Kings: The 25 Companies Responsible for...

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