American Workers LIke "A Man Without A Country" - US Corps Don't Want Them

[TheMastersNemesis]

There is not a shortage of American workers nor a shortage of skills. There is a shortage of jobs because American business does not want American workers because they are too expensive. Your corporate management and CEO's would rather replace American workers with immigrant and work visa workers because they are cheap and compliant and have few work rights. The great betrayal by the Us business community and the US Chamber Of Commerce goes unanswered and the American business community is so sacrosanct they are off the hook.

This business strategy has been in effect since Ronald Reagan. When the business community and politicians talk about competing with the global economy they are talking about American workers accepting pay and working conditions just like the situation in Bangeladesh. Get It. Global economy means global working condition equal tp third world nations in the US.

Until American workers understand what the mantra "competing globally"means and revolt against it, the situation will only get worse. Until American workers understand that their corporate bosses are BIASED against them because they hurt the stock price of CEO's and management and revolt it will be more of the same. Even too many American politicians care more about foreign workers than their own American constituents.

The situation is beyond serious. It is critical. Until we are willing to challenge the corporate model of work today Amercian workers will end up working for less and less. You might as well be like a "man without a country".

[emsimon33]

1. K&R

[Lizzie Poppet]

2. k&r

We've been sold down the river.

[TheMastersNemesis]

3. Discrimination Against American Workers Is A Pandemic.

And corpotations, big business and conservatives have succeeded in convincing workers to be ant labor and anti union. Unless workers backlash and demand their rights there will be no future. The GOP wants to inflict the same kind of austerity that is causing 27% unemployment in Spain and record unemployment in France. The rich are instrumental is taking all the money and resources for themselves.

[cprise]

8. Easy to do when working class people dislike

...each other so much. It goes well beyond the lack of empathy, and that dislike is fed by the mass media. Most Americans relate more to the brands they like to consume and to billionaires and celebrities than to their co-workers or neighbors.

Americans have allowed themselves to be put into this situation because they have been lured into an anti-humanist mindset.

[Dragonfli]

4. The Trans-Pacific Partnership could be one of the last nails in the coffin

We must therefore oppose the conservatives that support this deal and want it signed.

The Republicans would screw us with this if they could, just like they did when they negotiated and signed NAFTA. This time we can stop them because we have a Democratic President that will not sell us out like Reagan did when his signed that race to the bottom "free trade" deal in '93.

[Initech]

5. Electing Reagan was the single biggest mistake we ever made in this country.

May he rot in hell along with the rest of the BFEE for all eternity.

[HughBeaumont]

14. Economically, Reagan never LEFT.

That's a huge problem . . . his disaster laissez-fail that his economic team plagued this country with has become this untameable monster, an all-consuming hydra with it's multiple heads vacuuming up our resources and last bastions of fairness and stability.

We've only made slight progress on social issues in that amount of time. Economically, we've regressed. Doesn't make for a bright future, even for the well-monied. You can only squeeze people so much . . . or at least that's what I like to think.

[BrotherIvan]

6. So many corporations have discovered that cheap labor isn't worth it

But no one is leading the way and showing these cretins, I mean business geniuses, how to change their model back. How many people can tell a story of a company outsourcing only for the project to go haywire, deadlines not met, faulty products and loss of business? At a former company I worked for, they laid off our entire department, over 100 people, except for a few, and hired an outside consultant firm who hired those VERY SAME PEOPLE as freelancers because they were trained and experienced. Guess what? The cost was 12 TIMES what it was when the people were on staff. They ended up eventually relenting and hiring a staff back, but by then all the truly excellent people had moved on and they had to start from scratch.

Why did they do it? Labor costs are usually the biggest line item in a budget. A busy executive has to make his tee time, so he just crosses out that big line and problem solved! Not kidding. Big bonus that year too.

And health insurance. When are we going to have single payer? When will all these serious/brilliant people start shouting from the rooftops that the way to bring back jobs to the US is to get the healthcare out of employment?

[xtraxritical]

7. Tell me something I did'nt know twenty years ago.

[Quantess]

9. The harsh truth.

Our own government doesn't care about the American workers, either.

[Turborama]

10. What data do you have to back this up with?

You should add some to the OP, otherwise attitudes like this could seem like xenophobic - "they" are coming here to steal our jobs - scapegoating.

[TheMastersNemesis]

12. I Would Hardly Call It Xenophobic When Your Boss Brings In An H1B To Replace You.

If you have a job and your profitable company brings in foreign nationals on an immigration visa program and forces you to train your replacement before you are actually fired is not being xenophobic. This practice has been going o for more than 30 years.

When you use immigration to cut wages of workers who might have been with a company for decades so you can NOT pay fore their retirement that they earned, it should be a felony. I have seen too many workers devastated and their lives are destroyed by such practices.

At some point the xenophobic argument becomes a straw man.

[Turborama]

15. No data, just anecdotal evidence. Got it. n/t

[spooky3]

17. Start here:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/26/us_companies_foreign_comapies_study/

[datasuspect]

11. when we drag them out in the streets and hold kangaroo courts that dole out summary executions like

candy, when people wake up and realize there are more of us than them.

when the fat cat billionaire gangsters are taken to a place where there money can't save them.

we can start making changes.

[Mr Dixon]

13. SMH

it is amazing that people don't understand this yet, see the movie "Company Men" that is the future.

[KoKo]

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