Posted on 01/10/2020 11:19:44 PM PST by rintintin
Opponents of job outsourcing are making a holiday-season appeal to President Trump: Stop U.S. companies from forcing American workers to train the very same cheaper foreign laborers who will soon replace them.
Why it matters: Trump promised voters he'd end abuses of worker visa programs and save U.S. jobs — but as he campaigns for re-election, advocates say he hasn't done enough.
Driving the news: AT&T is poised to send thousands into the new year hunting for new jobs after assigning them to train their own foreign replacements, according to conversations with current and former workers and documents obtained by Axios.
Many have worked for the company for over a decade. They aren't being offered severance or early retirement, and may not easily find a comparable job elsewhere with similar pay. What they're saying: Sara Blackwell, a Florida-based lawyer who represents Americans displaced by workers on visas or overseas, told Axios: "American workers are tired of waiting for President Trump to do something on this issue."
"They’ve gone from great hope in President Trump's administration, to great discouragement." She sent letters to Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas.), Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson, as AT&T is headquartered in Dallas. She also met this month to discuss the problem with White House officials. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
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Axios is Comcast. ATT arguably its competitor.
ATT owns CNN
Comcast owns the NBC properties.
Neither of the two telecoms should also control the news, the message.
Get on board, and speak up. Simply bitching about the a-hole in front of the camera solves nothing.
Verizon already did it last year.
I was laid off i 2014 from Verizon but as I was over 60 so I decided to retire. T was told a year ahead of time that the end was coming and that my team lead would travel to Eastern Europe to train our replacements. We already had multiple support groups laid off and their functions moved offshore for several years previous to my little portion of project management. This trend has been ongoing for a while.
We all have so much coding to learn
Laura Ingraham brought this subject up to the POTUS in her interview. POTUS also mentioned that Mark Levin complained about the same thing. 2 more tv people to ban for failing the FR purity test. Tucker Carlson is gone. Who is left?
Axios is an American news website founded in 2016 by former Politico staffers Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz. It officially launched in 2017.Worthless anti-Trump shills.
And the year before that, and the year before that, and the year before that, and the year before that, and the year before that...
I had 31 unbroken years at Verizon and was once the only one saved out of about sixty laid off about 15 years ago, including a Sr. Manager and three Managers. I turned off the lights, shut the doors and went back to my previous position. Then a few years later I moved to a new position as a Project Manager when that group I had moved back to was laid off and the positions consolidated into the San Antonio location. Of course, I was a legacy MCI employee and one of our backronyms was "Many Changes Instantaneously."
It has been happening with coders for decades.
What are coders going to do when coal miners and journalists take their jobs?
You guys know what to do
Why are our kids future being destroyed by foreign invaders.
Does India China Australia allow American white-collar workers.
Well ,NO .
Trump will not veto Mike Lee India invasion bill . The H1 visas sell out has gotten worse .Its now Avalanche status. Call the WH . .
I all works out,
Sometimes.
Because large corporations add a 6-12 month bonus to their standard termination package if they do train them.
Most rational adults find it very easy to say “yes.”
Also - some corporations require you to train a replacement to be “eligible for re-hire.”
Not being “eligible for re-hire” can be a ruinous red flag on your resume when you look for a new job.
“Why do these Americans agree to train their foreign replacements?Because large corporations add a 6-12 month bonus to their standard termination package if they do train them. Most rational adults find it very easy to say “yes”.”
Many adult Americans have lifestyles that force them to say “yes”; when you have a family to feed you can’t walk away from the income and health insurance. Many young Americans won’t get locked into that lifestyle, so they don’t breed or buy anything that ties them down. An understandable reaction, but one with frightening demographic consequences - not at some point down the road, but right now. The “browning of America” is well underway.
nothing new about this. been happening for many years, decades.
This makes Trump vulnerable. The first Democrat that gets out in front of this issue and makes it part of their presidential campaign and directs it to college students who have student loans and it will be all over for Trump.
Nothing wrong with a little extra “tanning” of the population, rather it’s that the keys of knowledge of what makes for a successful America are not being passed to them so that the America that emerges will be a bankrupt socialized horror!
The point is that the “browning” isn’t a condemnation of who is arriving - it is a reflection of who is disappearing: Those with the knowledge of what makes a successful America.
We are instead inundated with a massive underclass who only know what makes an unsuccessful Mexico, India, Nigeria, Red China, etc..
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