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IBM Offers to Send Laid-Off Staff to Other Countries
TheAmit writes to tell us that many recently laid off IBM employees have been offered jobs if they will only move somewhere it is cheap to employ them. IBM's new Project Match program offers some financial assistance for moving and immigration help for visas. "However, the move has not gone well with the IBM staff union. Slamming the offer, a union spokesperson said that not only were jobs being shipped overseas, but Big Blue was trying to export the people for peanuts too. He added that at a time of rising unemployment IBM should be looking to keep both the work and the workers in the United States. "
Where the **** are my mod points when I need them.
You want to 'protect' American jobs? Get your savior to fulfill his campaign promises to the unions and stand up to Europe, Asia and the rest and start restricting and/or banning imports. Renegotiate NAFTA.
For instance, when the euros start yelling about 'buy American' language in the Obama payoff bill you'll need to grow a pair and ignore it.
Don't bitch when the prices double or triple, and whatever you do DO NOT ask yourself if IBM is actually right and if so why.
Lurking at the bottom of the gravity well, getting old
I don't recognize national borders. I'm trying to live my life without considering them. Perhaps this union guy from IBM should try to live his life the same way.
Or better yet, tax the shit out of them
surprise, the reaganite scumbags have "disputed the neutrality" of this article.
Sorry schmucks, but reality has a well-known liberal bias.
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