Two points here: first, U.S. corporations, for the most part, are extremely
reluctant to put out the money needed to train the workers they have to fill
the positions they need filled. Why? Because either the newly-trained
specialists will immediately leave for higher-paying jobs, or if they stay
they will demand higher pay and more benefits. Either way the company's
profit margin is cut, which maketh the stockholders most unhappy.
Second, when the news stories refer to "foreign workers," that's a euphemism
for East Asian (Indian and Pakistani) workers. Like it or not, India in
particular has developed a major software industry. Given the highly
favorable exchange rate for the rupee vs. the U.S. dollar, it is far cheaper
for people to get trained in Mumbai (Bombay) or New Delhi or Madras and then
come to the States to work. (A former help desk colleague from India took a
leave of absence to return to India for Windows NT training because it was
MUCH less expensive than the equivalent course here--something on the order
of $500 against $5,000 in the U.S.) These programmers, etc., by the way, are
not being hired on the cheap; they are getting the same amount that their
American counterparts do. The main difference is in the training overhead.
Hell, if someone would pay my airfare, I'd fly to India for training!
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Stokes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 3:22 AM
Subject: Re: [CTRL] Fwd: The High-Tech Plantation
> In a message dated 00-03-16 11:22:39 EST, DasGoat sends (via Kris):
>
> << "Claiming there are now over a third of a million more high-tech jobs
> than US workers to fill them, Rep. David Drier, R-Calif., said the
present
> ceiling on immigrant visas doesn't meet the needs of an increasingly
> digitalized economy.
> ``If we can't bring these people to the US, corporations will move
> high-tech jobs to some other country,'' said Rep. Tom Davis R-Va.>>
>
>
> I can't believe I missed this.
> Where are these jobs that go unfilled? This is just more corporate
bullshit.
> The truth is that these corporations do not want to pay a living wage to
the
> people who do the work. In the past seven years I have been a displaced
> worker three times. Once from a small company that moved because the
owner
> wanted the business closer to where he lived. Next Digital Electronics
Corp.
> moved the disk drive manufacturing business to Malaysia thinking they
could
> make more profits with people who would work for pennies on the dollar ...
> they went bust in Malaysia. Now the company I currently work for
"Quantum"
> is sending the tape drive manufacturing business to Malaysia and the tape
> drive repair business to Mexico ... I hope they lose their shirt. The
worst
> part of it all is that they want us to be cheerful about losing our jobs
(for
> the good of the company) and train these assholes how to do our job ...
that
> bites. Many people (if not most) think that violence is not the answer.
> These corps are taking the very food from our mouths and the mouths of our
> children. They could care less whether we live or die. I'm not so sure
that
> writing congress is a viable answer, I write them sometimes two or three
> times a month, and if I get anything back, it is usually a form letter.
> Congress accepts bribes from all these corps. I'm starting to lean toward
> the idea that violence is the only thing that will stop them ... what can
> they do if 100,000,000 people decide to "just say no" to working for
peanuts
> at a corp. Of course they will send the business to a third world
country,
> but then people here will start to go hungry and hunger makes people
> desperate, then what will they do if 30,000,000 arm themselves and decide
to
> make things right, answer - here isn't a f___ing thing they can do about
it.
>
> Feeling more than a little pissed about Corporate Control,
> Bob Stokes
>
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