Posted on 06/11/2016 1:16:30 PM PDT by Hojczyk
LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. — 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.
Mr. Peña said he had been told at first that he would train his Wipro replacements. But after Senator Durbin’s rebuke, Wipro workers were trained only by employees who would be remaining with Abbott, he said.
He and 13 other former Abbott employees filed federal claims saying they faced discrimination because of their ages and American citizenship, said Sara Blackwell, a lawyer representing them. Those claims are confidential. Ms. Blackwell organized the tavern meeting where Abbott workers were invited to mourn their jobs. Of the small group that came, only Mr. Peña spoke up.
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And in November you will hear them ROAR for the Donald.
It’s interesting that not even what we know as political conservative is perfection.
Maybe liberals really are more civic minded in their intents, if not in their execution. I’ve long tried to preach that charity is a good thing, not a bad one, however it becomes a bad thing when conjoined to the face of an idol. It’s harder to game a church, or even an honest private foundation (not talking about organizations like Clinton’s, that sling slush money around in ungodly arrangements) than it is to game bureaucrats.
I would rather, and if my understanding of the bible is right, even God would rather, that liberals found religion in Him and brought their liberality within its arch — than that they became secular conservatives.
A limited role of government and an augmented role of the church is right down a libertarian alley.
Companies in America are owned by stockholders and can be owned by other foreign companies. Leadership follows the direction of the owners, not necessarily the interest of Americans. A good analogy would be Hillary. She does what she is told by her owner, George Soros.
Thank you Senator Cruz, a GREAT platform to run on...
“Wonder what happens if you sign, take the severance, and then speak out about this sorry labor practice. Would they really take you to court?”
Depends how busy their house lawyers are...of course that assumes they haven’t been outsourced too.
They are buying your silence. If you don’t want to be silent, don’t accept payment.
Loyalty in the job place was probably always a myth, but at least there was the pretense of it in my fathers day. I don’t have enough fingers and toes to count all the times I’ve been screwed by an employer or seen it done to family and friends. As far as I am concerned it is eat or be eaten.
I have signed both NDA’s and no-competes. In one case they truly held my financial future over my head and said “Sign here”. I did - and then I went to work for the competition. Threatened with a lawsuit I said “bring it”.
They huffed and puffed but never did.
Not a salesman. I do not deny the Creator’s love or the red letters of the Bible, but after decades of silence despite a life dedicated to Him, in anger and frustration I put the God of the desert and the gods of my Northern European forbears to the test over an exacerbating and painful health issue. The results, I felt, left me no choice but to change my faith.
I’m still somewhat in a spin theologically. It’s more like discovering family that actually speak and help rather than a religious feeling of faraway love and demands for faith, faith, faith, and in return receiving guilt and judgement when the house of cards falls. When you are drowning and your Father simply watches and says “I love you”, but the supposed Black Sheep of the family rescues you from the water, you start to reconsider where you spend Thanksgiving.
I’ll still speak to the God of my adoption, the gods of my blood don’t mind. But they’ve also told me doing something halfway is like mixing sickness and cure in the same cup, that’s their choice of expression. I have to go with the hand that grabbed me when I was drowning.
>>I work in IT and have seen this up close. It is one reason I chose to take a civil service job after 20 years in private industry (and nothing to show for it).
I did the same thing. Chased the “dream” for 20 years and had nothing to show for it. Took my skills to a municipal utility and finally have job security and have actually received promotions.
>>Yes sirree.
Perhaps, but I’ve become something of a Deist. I don’t think God really cares how much money I make or is willing to lift a finger to help me. He made a world, made me, and now it just runs according to natural laws that he set in motion.
Some American companies have been refusing to hire Americans and hiring only unqualified non-Americans.
U talkin bout the last two elections ?? LOL !
For the last couple of decades many corporations have expected complete loyalty and dedication from their employees, but have shown NO reciprocal loyalty.
Now some of those who have been mistreated are speaking out.
It’s long overdue, and many deep repercussions will be the result.
Expecting loyalty while showing none is short-term gain for long-term pain.
I’m apparently the opposite.
For several years I was in a couple of civil service jobs where after about a decade I had very little to show for it.
AA bosses and supers in most places. Lied regularly and brazenly.
Several things happened about the same time with the wun being elected not helping and I wound up in a string of contractor and temp jobs for a couple of years.
A contractor job as an IT person in factory went full time and it’s the best I’ve been treated in a long time and certainly the best paying. It’s been going on 4 years now and I plan to hang on as long as possible.
>>and I plan to hang on as long as possible.
And therein lies the rub.
I keep that in mind.
In a few weeks, quite a number of temps and hourly floor people are going bye-bye with an old manufacturing building being shut down.
I’m really hoping like many there that the new one works like it’s supposed to.
Yes but many hire (for little money) recent college graduates as interns to train the foreign nationals.
I did a Fed gig for many years, Federal Contractor, but that’s up soon. I tell ya, for the bulk of it I was ‘the guy’ but was always reminded I was a second-class worker, but this current gig is/was awful. It was policy that developers never met clients, heck, this group didn’t want the customers to even know your name.
So for the last 8 months I was basically a commodity. I felt like a bag of wheat.
I’m going back Private Sector.
I wasn’t even treated as a bag of wheat at USC by the psycho phb-ette that was in charge.
At one time I did some some sub work for Dell which was rolling out PCs all across the state. I was treated pretty well for the most part.
OH this is already effecting everyday American.. almost all you your medical insurance claims are bening done in India. millions of americans have been layed off in the health insurance industry for the cheaper indians to pay the claims...
Republican Jeff Sessions of Alabama is noted here as one of the bravehearts who wants revisions to visa laws to allow such former employees to contest their layoffs and being forced to train foreigners who are takung their jobs in violation of the very intent of such visas and in violation of the American citizen to pursuit of happiness.
Another reason Sessions should be a V.P. pick in the top 3 to run with Trump. This is an issue Trump could use to win a lot of support and votes in California.
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