When Americans look like this, then the big corporations will be happy
150,000 US Layoffs for IBM? — The way this article is written it sounds like IBM may as well close up shop. I would be seriously surprised if this happened in this manner.
LEAN is about offshoring and outsourcing at a rate never seen before at IBM. For two years Big Blue has been ramping up its operations in India and China with what I have been told is the ultimate goal of laying off at least one American worker for every overseas hire. The BIG PLAN is to continue until at least half of Global Services, or about 150,000 workers, have been cut from the U.S. division. Last week’s LEAN meetings were quite specifically to find and identify common and repetitive work now being done that could be automated or moved offshore…
I wish that all conservatives would spend a year or two in a religiously conservative, low-tax, low-regulation, no-safety net, no minimum wage country before they keep persuing that vision for America.
I have and that country was Pakistan. It’s a consevative’s fantasy dream land —
For instance, if you were a businessman and you want to pay your employees ten cents an hour! Do it!
If somebody injured themselves in your store or usuing your product — tell them it ws their own damn stupidity that got them injured!.
You wan’t to build something? Just build it! How you want, anywhere you wiant without any pesky building codes or environmental studies. Just build it! If someone trips and breaks their head open on the poorly built concrete steps, tell them to be more careful next time! Since there is no health safeynet — your bad steps just crippled the only wage earner in their family. That’s the price of freedom!
Of course, if YOU are the one who gets skewered through the eye by a piece of rebar sticking out somewhere, that’s your damn bad luck.
#32 – I would set up a company with better benefits to attract the best workers. I’ll have the best product. No one will buy the dangerous stuff.
People vote with their wallet. My competion goes out of business.