Workers Go Take a Bath - Department of Labor

BobOak

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Tuesday July 03, 2007 · 3:25 PM PDT

2007/07/03 · 15:25

That's what Labor Secretary Elaine Chao says as quoted in Parade Magazine.

American employees must be punctual, dress appropriately and have good personal hygiene

Well, well, maybe instead of a bath we should point out American workers are in fact getting hosed

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Elaine Chao

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Elaine Chao

Needs to Take a Bath, she's pretty smelly from these smears

7 votes

Needs to be Fired

16 votes

Needs to be sent bath soaps in protest

7 votes

Needs to receive etiquette training on how to not insult American workers

7 votes

Impeach, impeach them all

47 votes

Just Say NO - Comprehensive Immigration Bill

BobOak

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Thursday June 28, 2007 · 3:54 AM PDT

2007/06/28 · 03:54

Like swarms of locusts, Corporate lobbyists have surrounded the hill and taken legislative staffers hostage. As I type, various amendments are being renegotiated, gutted, moved around, renamed, folded in... All, all of this hush, hush last minute activity is per the demands of the Corporate Cheap Labor Lobby.

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Is this Bill

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Is this Bill

A Pig in a Poke

2 votes

A Trojan Horse

4 votes

A Corporate Cheap Labor Lobby agenda item

13 votes

Bad for American workers

6 votes

Good for Exploitive Employers

2 votes

All of the above

39 votes

How To Not Hire An American - MUST SEE VIDEO

BobOak

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Monday June 18, 2007 · 10:47 AM PDT

2007/06/18 · 10:47

Our goal is clearly NOT TO FIND a qualified and interested U.S. worker.

It's on video, believe it or not, and even presented as a selling point to peddle their services by Cohen & Grigsby Law Firm. That's right, this group of attorneys put an entire seminar on how to screw over the American worker on YouTube. Imagine that, a seminar from lawyers on how to make sure one doesn't have to hire an American worker!

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I will show this video to

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I will show this video to

My Senator

176 votes

My Congressman

85 votes

My own attorneys as a seminar on how to get fired by us

47 votes

The DOL in a letter of complaint

74 votes

What's YouTube?

136 votes

Globalization versus Free Trade

BobOak

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Thursday June 14, 2007 · 1:55 PM PDT

2007/06/14 · 13:55

The House Committee on Science and Technology, very much interested in the United States not losing US economic competitiveness and jobs, held hearings on The Globalization of R&D and Innovation on June 12, 2007.

Recently, Dr. Blinder, Princeton Economist, concluded

nearly all (35 of 39) STEM occupations are offshorable.

Ralph Gomory, President of the Sloan Foundation, testified:

In this new era of globalization the interests of companies and countries have diverged. In contrast with the past, what is good for America’s global corporations is no longer necessarily good for the American people.

Well, shift my paradigm....

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Do you think US trade policy is stuck on stupid?

30 votes Vote Now!

Do you think US trade policy is stuck on stupid?

Yes, we need a Congressional Trade office

6 votes

Yes, we need policy analyzed from the National Economic Interest

21 votes

No, Corporations RULE!

1 vote

No, I am a fat lady and I enjoy the opera

2 votes

There is No Worker Shortage

BobOak

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Wednesday June 06, 2007 · 1:09 PM PDT

2007/06/06 · 13:09

Every day we hear about the great "worker shortage" in Science, Engineering, Technology and Mathematics and we need more H-1B guest worker Visas and how we need even more employer controlled immigration. Yet, repeatedly Front Paged the statistics show There is no worker shortage.

So, how come these very corporations are laying off Science Professionals in droves?

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Is it ok to fire U.S. workers and then claim there is a worker shortage?

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Is it ok to fire U.S. workers and then claim there is a worker shortage?

No, this exposes the global labor arbitrage agenda of these firms

376 votes

Yes, I am a stockholder, layoffs make the price rise

17 votes

No, I am a stockholder and will stop supporting irresponsible corporate behavior

22 votes

Yes, I am a recruiter or an immigration attorney who makes their living processing H-1B Visas

12 votes

Americans Betrayed Once Again: H-1B, offshore outsourcing

BobOak

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Thursday May 31, 2007 · 2:21 PM PDT

2007/05/31 · 14:21

Yesterday we had an incredible betrayal of the Professional workforce by Maria Cantwell (D-WA). She has introduced S.Admt 1249 which will absolutely decimate Americans in STEM careers as well as target most middle class careers for labor arbitrage. Other Corporate representatives are Cornyn, Leahy and Hatch.

The Programmers Guild has already issued a damning report on what this amendment would do. This post is a must read.

With so many labor organizations and facts screaming in the face of Congress on how middle class jobs are being targeted for offshore outsourcing and labor arbitrage, why do our representatives seem hell bent on selling out working America?

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Will you express outrage at this betrayal of American workers?

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Will you express outrage at this betrayal of American workers?

Yes, and I will fax these Senators and demand they stop representing Corporate Lobbyists

31 votes

Yes, I will show up in person to a regional Senate office demanding they stop introducing legislation written by Corporate Lobbyists

3 votes

No, I am a Corporate Lobbyist and this work bought my $1M dollar home

6 votes

No, I am not a US Citizen and working against America's economic & national interests

8 votes

Pascrell Defends the American Dream & Compete America opposes $15,000 scholarship!

BobOak

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Friday May 25, 2007 · 11:44 AM PDT

2007/05/25 · 11:44

Yesterday Senator Bernie Sanders managed to get an amendment accepted that takes a 3,500 fee, a minuscule drop in the bucket of total labor arbitrage profits from using cheap labor, to fund scholarships for Americans to go to college.

Yet, Corporations, who claim we need to invest in America whine that they shouldn't have to give back to America while they ship our jobs offshore.

Compete America, a Cheap Labor lobbyist group, blasted the Sanders amendment claiming it is:

an outrageous and onerous tax increase on our nation's most innovative companies, and could make the H-1B program cost-prohibitive, especially for smaller businesses.

BobOak

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Thursday May 24, 2007 · 11:19 AM PDT

2007/05/24 · 11:19

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is going to introduce an amendment to S.1348, the Comprehensive Immigration bill, that stands up for American workers.

The The American Competitiveness Scholarship Program amendment would help so many Americans in attending college and also assist those being displaced by the Corporate Cheap Labor Lobby.

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I will call my Senator in support of the Sanders amendment

37 votes Vote Now!

I will call my Senator in support of the Sanders amendment

Yes, multiple times

11 votes

Yes, I will use my own network to spread the word in support

13 votes

No, I'm super rich and want education to be more exclusionary

2 votes

No, Americans are fat, lazy and stupid and do not deserve access to opportunity

11 votes

Senator Durbin on H-1B, Abuse, Outsourcing and Trading People

BobOak

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Wednesday May 16, 2007 · 3:11 PM PDT

2007/05/16 · 15:11

Senator Dick Durbin gave a damning May 8th Floor speech on H-1B guest worker Visas. It's clear this Democrat is trying to do something about an injustice, that affects all of working America and we need to support Dick Durbin and Grassley in this effort.

Realize what they are up against here: the massive Corporate lobbyists, their own colleagues representing special interests...and look over the flip at what India is threatening via the WTO, GATS mode 4 in their efforts to labor arbitrage our jobs.

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Will you ask your Senators to support Durbin & Grassley?

24 votes Vote Now!

Will you ask your Senators to support Durbin & Grassley?

Yes, by phone and fax

4 votes

Yes by email, phone and fax

12 votes

Yes by blogging on this issue

3 votes

No, only Ron Paul speaks for me

3 votes

No, I am an outsourcer interested in getting more US jobs abroad

2 votes

Foreign Trade Group WARNS Dick Durbin & Chuck Grassley not to meddle with US Domestic Policy!

BobOak

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Tuesday May 15, 2007 · 2:08 PM PDT

2007/05/15 · 14:08

Yesterday, Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) released a press statement asking companies who specialize in offshore outsourcing to release information on their use of the H-1B Visa.

Well, look at how these companies think trading people is a WTO USTR issue!

I am taking it up with the US trade representatives that such letters are better written through the US TR's than being written to companies because it causes lack of predictability. In this, I have expressed concern. Services are an ongoing part of our negotiations in the WTO and will form an important component, and anything, which viciates the atmosphere of these service negotiations will not lead to a breakthrough, which we are looking forward to.

The GALL of this guy, the outrageous insolence, the effrontery, look, he is giving OUR Senators a WARNING!

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Trading people is

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Trading people is

A race to the bottom

13 votes

A disaster for the US middle class and working America

19 votes

The new form of slavery

14 votes

A new form of serfdom

8 votes

Trade me first, I'm a submissive!

2 votes

I like being poor and having no opportunities

15 votes

I will call my Senator now and say stop this!

4 votes

Another Brokered Secret Deal? Massive H-1B Visa increases

BobOak

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Sunday May 13, 2007 · 1:53 PM PDT

2007/05/13 · 13:53

While we all are examining this new Trade Deal and thankfully Public Citizen is analyzing, yet another Corporate cheap labor agenda item is potentially about to be passed, brokered in back room deals and going unnoticed.

The bill, S.1348 : A bill to provide for comprehensive immigration reform and for other purposes. From the congressional record:The text of S.1348 has not yet been received from GPO. In other words, the bill is not available to the public for review.

Yet the renamed S.1348 is supposedly S.2611, the "comprehensive" immigration reform bill that has massive H-1B Visa increases, yet even more guest worker Visas and even a method to turn our University system into a glorified green card machine.

The text is not even presented to the public, yet this is supposedly the Senate business of May 14th, which is tomorrow!!!!.

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I will call my Senator and ask

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I will call my Senator and ask

stop the labor arbitrage insanity agenda

15 votes

represent the American people, not corporations

19 votes

I voted for change, not more of the same

4 votes

do whatever the ITAA wants

0 votes

do whatever Bush Corporation wants

0 votes

do whatever the U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants

0 votes

we need more offshore outsourcing, I personally have too much money

4 votes

do whatever Bill Gates wants

5 votes

IBM to layoff 150,000?

BobOak

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Friday May 04, 2007 · 5:30 PM PDT

2007/05/04 · 17:30

Bob Gringely today reported on the internal inside mumbles that IBM Global Services is going to layoff over 100,000 U.S. workers and offshore outsource entire divisions. Cringley reports IBM's U.S. Worker destruction agenda, named LEAN, is going on beind closed doors as we speak and IBM has a strategy to do this over time, in order to not draw too much attention from the press. Can the leak in the U.S. job dam be disguised to deny the flood of jobs being offshore outsourced?

Hiding the agenda appears to be IBM's only LEAN objective.

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The IBM mantra is?

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The IBM mantra is?

If 1 woman can have a baby in 9 months, then 9 cheaper women can have a baby in 1 month

38 votes

If 1 innovator creates 3B in revenue it is best to fire that person and hire 10000 people to generate 1M in revenue

18 votes

we don't believe in math anymore, we have faith based economics now

57 votes

all hail Palmisano!

18 votes

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