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IBM now employs more workers in India than US
NY Post ^ | 10/5/13 | John Aidan Byrne

Posted on 10/06/2013 3:24:19 PM PDT by jimbo123

The sun is rising in India for America’s outsourced jobs.

But it’s a bad sign for New York’s dwindling middle-class workforce, say labor analysts.

New York’s labor markets are in convulsions as American employers ship more well-paid jobs to lower-cost countries like Mexico, the Philippines, China and India — where IBM, culling 747 jobs from the Empire State, has achieved landmark status. It now employs more workers in India than in the US, according to a leaked IBM document reviewed by The Post. The average IBM pay in India is $17,000, compared with $100,000 for a senior IT specialist in the US.

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To: driftdiver
I bet if so many companies hadn’t offshored you might have found a job by now.

I don't blame corporations. I blame my fellow citizens who are too stupid to breathe and keep voting for the same B.S.

61 posted on 10/07/2013 12:44:33 PM PDT by elkfersupper
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To: elkfersupper

No offense but I think you’re missing a key component.

The manipulations of our government by big business. Its not an issue when the company is an American company run by Americans.

How about when its run by Indians, French, German, Chinese, Russian?


62 posted on 10/07/2013 3:02:09 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Lancey Howard

Belated thanks.

Hire Americans. Buy American.


63 posted on 10/08/2013 6:13:30 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: driftdiver
No offense but I think you’re missing a key component. The manipulations of our government by big business. Its not an issue when the company is an American company run by Americans. How about when its run by Indians, French, German, Chinese, Russian?

No offense, but all companies are influenced by their stockholders. Nothing else.

64 posted on 10/09/2013 4:47:08 PM PDT by elkfersupper
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To: elkfersupper

Uh yeah ok


65 posted on 10/10/2013 2:27:28 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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