[mtrott]

Yep, iPhones are not ever going to be made in the US, and these angry, disaffected laid off blue collar workers are eventually going to be sorely disappointed with Trump. The problem is that they need to be re-trained for currently available high tech jobs. With economic growth, there can be newly created jobs for these people, but most of them are never going to get their old jobs back.

[Aliska]

They were talking about Abbot Laboratories on talk radio this afternoon. Abbot was located in Chicago, but one plant was in Waukegan, IL. My aunt's neighbor lady's husband had a good job there, may be retired by now.

I don't know this source but it sources back to the Chicago Tribune:

Abbott Laboratories fires 180 IT workers, replaces them with H-1B, L-1 visa workers from Wipro

Like Disney and many before them, let Americans go and make them train H1B workers for their jobs. Fire them and give them severance pay. They were saying they have to sign a non-disclosure to get their severance, can't talk publicly about it.

It sucks.

[BlackAdderess]

Well, actually I’m in the process of retraining now, and as I understand it people over a certain age are persona non grata no matter how well they kick the ass of the rest of their graduating class!

[Pelham]

“The problem is that they need to be re-trained for currently available high tech jobs. “

Sorry. Those jobs are reserved for “Bob” from New Delhi who is here on an H1-B visa.