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Sunday January 29, 2006
More layoffs here --> hiring in India
Wachovia making cuts in finance and accounting.
09:18 pm
Sunday January 29, 2006
posted by gmminks
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Saturday January 28, 2006
I get requests all the time from reporters wanting to talk to people whose jobs have been outsourced.
For those reporters, here are some new announcements of IT jobs being outsourced overseas. Find these folks and talk to them:
- St. Paul Travelers Cos. is sending their IT work to India (500 jobs). Most of the jobs were in Hartford, CT.
- Church's Chicken is moving their IT support to India as well.
- Boeing may outsource engineering support services to India so they can sell airplanes to Air India.
- The Hartford Financial Services Group is sending 192 jobs to India.
08:04 am
Saturday January 28, 2006
posted by gmminks
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Thursday January 26, 2006
Employers use H1B visas to displace Americans
According to this article:
"Employers use the H-1B temporary visa program
more often to import cheaper labor than to fill
vacancies for which no U.S. workers are
available, says a recent report by the nonprofit
Center for Immigration Studies.
Not only that, H-1B workers recruited for
computer jobs are paid on average $13,000 less
per year than Americans working the same job in
the same state, it says."
Primary source material here
06:21 pm
Thursday January 26, 2006
posted by gmminks
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Tuesday January 3, 2006
The Bush Administration has outsourced most of Homeland Security, an umbrella agency for 22 Federal agencies (including INS and FEMA). Bush put his friends into positions where they had no expertise, which according to this Rolling Stone article made "Homeland Security the only federal agency ever designed to hollow out government and enrich an administration's corporate cronies."
Just how much has been outsourced? According to the same article:
According to the Homeland Security Research Corporation, a private firm that monitors the "market" in federal contracts, government outsourcing on homeland security has soared by $130 billion since Bush took office. And that's just a fraction of the windfall expected in the next five years. By 2010, the firm predicts, "the tragic events that resulted from Hurricane Katrina" -- combined with the administration's "much greater reliance on the private sector" -- will boost the global market in homeland security by another $400 billion.
The article specifically talks about government workers having their jobs outsourced to private firms who in turn hire people who are not qualified to do the outsourced jobs:
As the Bush administration squandered security funds and outsourced projects to private contractors, experienced veterans within the department were all but ignored. "This administration really distrusts government workers," says Bosner, the FEMA union president. "They don't especially like us. They think, 'We can trust the private sector, and they'll do it right.'"
In June 2004, the union wrote Congress to warn that "jobs are increasingly being filled by hiring inexperienced and unqualified persons," while private-sector contractors were bungling important security projects. Earlier that year in a survey of agency workers, eighty percent said that FEMA was worse off since it was folded into Homeland Security; fewer than two percent said it had improved. Sixty percent said they would leave FEMA for another job if they had an offer, and seventy-four percent said they would retire immediately once eligible. "Once the highest-ranked government office for worker satisfaction," The Wall Street Journal reported last year, "FEMA is now dead last."
Many of the agency's most experienced professionals did not wait around for conditions to deteriorate any further. "Little by little, the top career people began to leave," says Bosner, who emphasizes that he does not speak for the agency. "They saw that the top jobs were going to twenty-five- or thirty-year-olds who worked for the Bush campaign." High turnover has been a problem throughout DHS. "It's a big revolving door right now," says one congressional staffer. "You need to depend on leadership being there, but they come for a few years and race off to the private sector."
06:24 am
Tuesday January 3, 2006
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