Tech firms battle US job protection laws while importing workers(Microsoft, IBM, AT&T and others)

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http://www.betanews.com/article/Tech_firms_battle_US_job_protection_laws_while_importing_workers/1233791875

Then, on Tuesday of this week, Microsoft's name showed up on a list of companies signing a letter sent to Senate leaders opposing the "Buy American" provision in the Senate version of the emerging economic stimulus plan. The Buy American plank would require manufactured goods used for projects funded by the economic stimulus bill to be produced in the US.

But "enacting expansive new Buy American restrictions would invite our international partners to exclude American gods and services from hundreds of billions of opportunities in their stimulus packages and perhaps to adopt Buy Local rules or raise other barriers to American goods more broadly across their economies," argued the companies in opposition.

"The Buy American provisions of S. 336 are as unnecessary as they are harmful," according to the letter signed by Microsoft and eight other organizations, including IBM, AT&T, Oracle, Cisco, Lockheed Martin, the Technology Association of America, the Aerospace Industries Association, and the Coalition for Government Procurement.

At the same time, IBM has come under attack from its own employee union for the Project Match program, which is encouraging laid off IBM workers in the US to apply for jobs with IBM overseas. "Project Match will help former employees to locate potential job opportunities in growth markets where your skills are in demand," an internal IBM e-mail reportedly said.

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1. Microsoft better hire some more PR people...

I don't think that this is going to sit too well the American public.

A BIG K&R...

[OhioChick]

2. I think U.S. citizens are going to be getting out their pitchforks soon.

What a damn disgrace these companies are. :mad:

[ChromeFoundry]

3. Maybe not just pitchforks.....

U.S. most armed country with 90 guns per 100 people

The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society in the world, a report released on Tuesday said.

U.S. citizens own 270 million of the world's 875 million known firearms, according to the Small Arms Survey 2007 by the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL2834893820070828

[OhioChick]

4. CEO murdered by mob of sacked Indian workers

CEO murdered by mob of sacked Indian workers

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4810644.ece

People are being pushed to their limits. I don't advocate violence by any means, but can understand where people are coming from.

[ChromeFoundry]

5. Not just CEOs... Under the Constitution...

we as a people, have the right to overthrow the government.

The government better start watching out for the people of this country, or the people are going to take the country back by force.