http://www.philly.com/philly/business/20160422_Sending_call-center_work_overseas_is_a_key_issue_in_Verizon_strike.html
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Ok,since they have been doing it for years it's all good, you are a dope.
Because people were not aware. All of this time. All of those jobs. As the food stamps roles were going up and executive comp skyrocketing, American companie were shipping American jobs overseas. This is why people are getting stuck in part time and minimum wage jobs, because the entry and lower level jobs are being shipped out enmasse to the thrid world.
These companies still hope to sell their products to Americans, but just don't reall want to hire them.
Everyone can fight back here. Five jobs slips to 3 to two, to confusion. Occasional no accesses. Many kicks to cable. And a lot of coffee and newspaper time.
So why wasn't this a hot button several years ago when it started?
This is definitely the hot button item of the season, because it truly is disgraceful. That is shipping American jobs overseas and bringing in H1B workers.
The US Government and the American people listened to what industry had to say in the 1980's to 2000's and learned and studied and excelled at IT. Then they were undermined and laid-off. Like Disney, like Intel, like Verizon.
It truly is an obscenity to this country, and people which have provided this company with the greatest of opportunities, only to have them ship these American jobs overseas, in order to cut corners on services which are sold to Americans. That is obscene. Using American dollars to screw other Americans,
And for what? To shave a few dollars off of employment costs, and allowing the execs to pocket those savings as bonuses, while a Keiretsu of US interlocking boards of directors and compensation committees continue and paralelled obscene shower of wealth on executive managers.
And they should not be. That is the point. The company should be ashamed for being so anti American.
This is BS union propaganda. The company has been using overseas call centers for years. I don't know who lies more. The company or the union.