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Old 05-01-2014, 08:58 PM
 
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Some in Silicon Valley were able to collude and help suppress wages for extremely talented individuals were their skills are in high demand. I wonder how many other job fields and industries have colluded to keep employee wages lower than where they should be?

Silicon Valley?s Caste System Has Been Exposed -- NYMag

Silicon Valley firms accused of hiring conspiracy - Apr. 21, 2014

What I find disturbing is that this is not even close to being on the front pages
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Old 05-01-2014, 09:13 PM
 
Location: North Texas
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Yup. Welcome to the 99.99999999999%.
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Old 05-01-2014, 09:34 PM
 
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Yup. Welcome to the 99.99999999999%.
Yup, even the smart and talented are getting screwed over by the collusion of corporate interests
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Old 05-01-2014, 09:37 PM
 
Location: The Republic of Texas
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Come on. It is just jobs Americans don't want to do.
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Old 05-01-2014, 11:28 PM
 
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You mean the government isn't the cause of this? You got to be kidding me.
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Old 05-02-2014, 11:23 PM
 
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Come on. It is just jobs Americans don't want to do.


Indeed, that's why Silicon Valley is demanding for more H1B visas so they can undercut wages even more. So much for free markets working g for the mployess.
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Old 05-02-2014, 11:29 PM
 
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They told us if any recruiters called we had to tell our managers about it. And they'd contact HR to contact the calling HR and warn them off.
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Old 05-03-2014, 04:39 PM
 
Location: Maryland about 20 miles NW of DC
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Some in Silicon Valley were able to collude and help suppress wages for extremely talented individuals were their skills are in high demand. I wonder how many other job fields and industries have colluded to keep employee wages lower than where they should be?

Silicon Valley?s Caste System Has Been Exposed -- NYMag

Silicon Valley firms accused of hiring conspiracy - Apr. 21, 2014

What I find disturbing is that this is not even close to being on the front pages


In fact many employers in the Tech Biz now go one step farther. When you get hired you not only have to sign a "Non-disclosure" Agreement but also agreements that would prohibit you from accepting employement at a competing rival company or working as a consultant. In some cases you are even bared from expressing opinions or making a technical critique of the companies, processes, products or services. This is what it is getting to when it just the individual vs the organization. You really have no Rights or privacy anymore. The next step is to make these criminal offenses a la 1984. If you want a vision of the future it is being crushed under a pile of employment contracts or separation agreements.
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Old 05-03-2014, 06:47 PM
 
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Indeed, that's why Silicon Valley is demanding for more H1B visas so they can undercut wages even more. So much for free markets working g for the mployess.
This is what is so pathetic about neocons like Rush who always parrot that the free market is the best way. Maybe, if the market was actually free. But corporations reduced market freedom even more than most government regulations. If there was truly a labor shortage wages would be skyrocketing, unemployment would non-existent, and no companies would be doing mass layoffs. Considering the exact opposite is happening in nearly every fields real tells the real truth.
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Old 05-03-2014, 06:57 PM
 
Location: Riverside
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Yup, even the smart and talented are getting screwed over by the collusion of corporate interests
There's power in a union, guys. Never too late to organize...
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