U.S. To Train 3,000 Offshore IT Workers (activist, Obama, companies)
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This is not global social justice.
This is corporate greed on a global scale: see globalization. They are on the hunt for the next cheap source of labor.
Global social justice would be paying workers worldwide a living wage, among other things.
This is not global social justice.
This is corporate greed on a global scale: see globalization. They are on the hunt for the next cheap source of labor.
Global social justice would be paying workers worldwide a living wage, among other things.
Where does it say the offshore IT workers aren't earning a living wage? Read the article in the OP. This is indeed global social justice:
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Under director Rajiv Shah, the United States Agency for International Development will partner with private outsourcers in Sri Lanka to teach workers there advanced IT skills like Enterprise Java (Java EE) programming, as well as skills in business process outsourcing and call center support. USAID will also help the trainees brush up on their English language proficiency.
...Obama in January tapped Shah to head USAID. At the time of his appointment, Shah—whose experience in the development community included senior positions at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—said the organization needed to focus more on helping developing nations build technology-based economies. "We need to develop new capabilities to pursue innovation, science, and technology," said Shaw, during his swearing in ceremony.
"Despite President Obama's pledge to retain more hi-tech jobs in the U.S., a federal agency run by a hand-picked Obama appointee has launched a $22 million program to train workers, including 3,000 specialists in IT and related functions, in South Asia.
Following their training, the tech workers will be placed with outsourcing vendors in the region that provide offshore IT and business services to American companies looking to take advantage of the Asian subcontinent's low labor costs."
The federal agency overseeing this has existed since 1961, it was created by President Kennedy. Iraq gets over 17 billion dollars in aid, Israel about 2 billion. That's almost 100 times the amount cited in this article. Faux outrage?
The federal agency overseeing this has existed since 1961, it was created by President Kennedy. Iraq gets over 17 billion dollars in aid, Israel about 2 billion. That's almost 100 times the amount cited in this article. Faux outrage?
That is not the point.
The point is that we have young people out of college that cannot find jobs, because government policies discourage growth in US companies, by tax policies, and regulations.
Businesses are here to make money not to subsidize workers of the world or of the US.
I am sure that if you talk to business owners all over the country they prefer to hire Americans, but if the government panelized them for it. Or drive them crazy with regulations, back up the union demands etc., then they will close their business here and move it to where they can make money.
So the government’s job is to crate an environment that would be friendly and highly incentivize business to hire here, and stay here.
When a President feels more at home with the Unions than with businesses and people who work for them, than his “solutions” just might create more problems.
Look at California as an example NOT TO FOLLOW of how to run businesses out of the state.
Despite President Obama's pledge to retain more hi-tech jobs in the U.S., a federal agency run by a hand-picked Obama appointee has launched a $22 million program to train workers, including 3,000 specialists in IT and related functions, in South Asia.
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Following their training, the tech workers will be placed with outsourcing vendors in the region that provide offshore IT and business services to American companies looking to take advantage of the Asian subcontinent’s low labor costs.
I don't think that jives with obama's rhetoric on the campaign trail OR his claims of keeping good, high paying jobs in the US.....does it?
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Obama to Spend $22 Million Outsourcing IT Jobs to SE Asia
