I do not believe that Unions should drive up wages to the point that SoCalEdison or other entities should be compelled to do this.
However, even if U. S. employees are not overpaid, people from India can still afford to work for much less.
Problems with unions aside, I consider it the act of a treasonous individual to put U. S. Citizen out of work, simply to make a bigger profit.
Folks, if we’re not going to employ our neighbors, what is the value of having a nation in the first place?
I want my neighbors to have healthy financial standing. It makes for a more stable family for them. It makes for a more stable community. It makes for a better income stream for local, state, and federal tax coffers. And yes, the government debt can’t be paid down without this.
We have over 40 million people out of work in our nation, and we’re still standing by watching more citizen’s jobs outsourced at this time.
When is enough enough?
There are other ways.
“I consider it the act of a treasonous individual to put U. S. Citizen out of work, simply to make a bigger profit.”
My point exactly.
Too may states have caved to the unions, and are still fighting “Right to work” laws. I believe unions were necessary at one time, but now, not so much.
Too many people in this country are uneducated when it come to laws that govern employment. Until this is rectified, we will be subject to a$$holes in the White House, as well as local legislators.
Start a movement and educate the masses.
This business of importing cheap labor and exporting customer service jobs overseas could be stopped by Congress, and SHOULD be stopped by Congress.
Penalize corporations via the tax code to the point where it costs more to engage in this practice than it does to employ an American.
Customer service jobs in particular could be great way to increase employment as stay at home moms, the elderly, and welfare cases could perform this work from their houses with today’s technology.
Instead hundreds of thousands of people in India and the Philippines are doing customer service for corporations like ATT and American Express.
There is no IT job that cannot be learned through on the job training.
NOT A SINGLE FOREIGNER SHOULD TAKE AN AMERICAN JOB.
IMHO, in parallel with this would be the need to get corporate taxation down to be competitive with the rest of the world, and ease a lot of the regulations, then the picture will be even clearer...