[Vision2020] US Workers Adapt: moving workforce to India, elsewhere

[Donovan Arnold]

What the *&^%? Can somebody explain how someone can afford to buy the 
products we make if they are only paid .75 cents an hour?

This is joke isn't it Ted?

Donovan J Arnold


>From: Thomas Hansen <tomh@FNA.fsn.uidaho.edu>
>To: "'Ted Moffett'" <ted_moffett@hotmail.com>, dale@courtneys.us
>CC: vision2020@moscow.com
>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] US Workers Adapt: moving workforce to India, 
>elsewhere
>Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 13:52:40 -0700
>
>Why stop there, Mr. Moffett?  Why don't we simply dissolve all unions, 
>amend
>the US Constitution making it illegal for workers to organize, and work for
>whatever pennies "corporate" America is willing to part with?
>
>Tom Hansen
>Moscow, Idaho
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ted Moffett [mailto:ted_moffett@hotmail.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 1:47 PM
>To: dale@courtneys.us
>Cc: vision2020@moscow.com
>Subject: [Vision2020] US Workers Adapt: moving workforce to India,
>elsewhere
>
>
>
>April, 2020.
>
>Legislation legalizing a 60 hour work week with no overtime for assembly
>line manufacturing jobs at a 75 cents an hour minimum wage passed the US
>Congress this week.
>
>"It's the only way US workers can stay competitive," said an anonymous
>business executive with a 7 figure salary.  "If we want to keep our
>workforce employed, we must evolve to adapt to the realities of the global
>marketplace.  There are hundreds of millions of willing workers overseas 
>who
>
>accept these conditions and pay.  American workers need to quit whining and
>face reality!"
>
>Ted
>
>
> >From: "Dale Courtney" <dale@courtneys.us>
> >To: <vision2020@moscow.com>
> >Subject: [Vision2020] IBM sees need to shift jobs overseas: Firm seen
> >moving workforce to India, elsewhere
> >Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 07:47:21 -0700
> >
> >IBM sees need to shift jobs overseas
> >Reuters
> >
> >
> >Two senior officials at IBM, the world's largest computer maker, said the
> >company needs to speed its efforts to move white-collar jobs to India and
> >elsewhere overseas, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.
> >
> >IN A RECORDING of a conference call given to The New York Times by a 
>labor
> >union, top employee relations executives said IBM needed to make the same
> >moves its competitors made to save money by shifting service jobs away 
>from
>
> >the United States.
> >The article cited Forrester Research as estimating 450,000 U.S. computer
> >industry jobs could be transferred overseas in the next 12 years,
> >representing eight percent of U.S. computer jobs.
> >
> >Executives worried on the March IBM conference call that broader
> >unionization could arise as the trend strengthens, The Times said.
>
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