I disagree about the "long fruitless thread" thing.
Do we tolerate the idea that people with the same skills we have get
payed 1/5th what we get payed?
Just because they are in India or Brazil?
If we have a "World economy" why are the wages lower in India and Brazil?
You need to understand that this is not about self center Americans/
This is about "right and wrong".
This is about people who own large percentages of American corporations
and the corporations they are sending the jobs to in other countries!
Sam.
Matthew S. Hallacy wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:11:18PM -0500, Sam MacDonald wrote:
>
>
>>OK, now lets not get upset with labor unions after all unions represent
>>workers. Believe me when I say that programmers and everyone else who
>>works in I/T are labor. We are the work force, by definition the work
>>force is labor.
>>
>>
>>
>
>There are two kinds of unions:
>
>Unions who work for the employees to help insure their safety and fair
>treatment (labor such as coal mining, steel workers, railroad, etc)
>
>Unions who work to ensure that no matter how lazy, stupid, or incompetent
>their members are, they'll always have a job because if they don't, they'll
>all go on strike. (Rainbow foods and highway workers fall under this category)
>
>In an IT industry setting, I'm willing to bet it would be more of a
>category 2 union, seeing how there are plenty of incompetents out there
>who do nothing but leech the resources out of a company, and want protection
>from being fired for incompetency.
>
>Yes, moving phone support to $other_country is bad for the economy, but
>what do you expect when the general public doesn't care enough to show
>their feelings about it (by writing letters, or boycotting companies)
>
>
>FYI, AT&T/Comcast cable internet support is in Quebec, because they
>receive kickbacks for providing technical jobs there.
>
>With that said, this is totally off topic for the list, and is sure to
>spark a long fruitless thread.
>
>
>
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