'The man who wants to take your jobs'

[Gina Minks]

I think the situation we see as far as high tech jobs is  the exact same situation as in Ehrenreich's book. She wrote about employers weilding power over a disenfranhised group of workers.

One thing that is left out of the entire outsourcing conversation is the temporary visa situation. US companies have access to an unlimited number of immigrants from other countries who work for a fraction of what US workers cost. They get paid those wages while working here in the US. 

Ehrenreich worked with people who did not realize that their rights were being violated on a daily basis by their employers. Many of the immigrants who now hold the jobs of the unemployed masses fall into this same category, they do not realize that they have legal recourse if they are not paid what they were promised, if they have to work unreasonable hours or if they are forced to do jobs they were not hired to do.

Then you have American workers that are lucky to have jobs, and they act that way. Don't make waves, do whatever they tell you to do so your name doesn't come up during the layoff decision meetings.

They still need alot of bodies to get IT done. In fact, the Indian government is warning that they do not have enough trained professionals to handle all the work that is coming their way. 


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From: John Chambers <jc at trillian.mit.edu>
Date: 2004/03/24 Wed PM 04:08:48 EST
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Subject: Re: 'The man who wants to take your jobs'

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