Posted in business, capitalism, economy, election, government, human rights, jobs, labor, politics, tagged Bill Clinton, Colombia, democrat, election, free trade, Hillary Clinton, job, labor, NAFTA, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, treaty on April 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
President Bush has fast-tracked a free trade agreement to Congress that involves Colombia. The free trade agreement is designed to remove barrier between the two nations. Democrat have argued that Colombia has not done enough to stop violence in protecting labor activists in that country. The president heartily disagrees. Bush’s move will force lawmakers to [...]
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Posted in banking, business, capitalism, jobs, labor, politics, tagged banking, Bernanke, greed, inflation, job, labor, part-time, stimulus, tax rebate, underemployment, unemployment, wages on April 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In times of old, you could tell the tough times in the job market by the lines running outside the doors of employment offices and rooms full of people seeking employment. In later times, state employees were employed to to assist with your job search on a one to one basis. A certain measure of [...]
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Posted in business, capitalism, civil rights, commentary, technology, tagged biometric, fingerprint, job, labor, privacy, technology, tracking, work on March 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Biometrics has slowly been encroaching on the business world. Some of the work world has responded with a knee-jerk reaction. “They don’t even have to hire someone to harass you anymore. The machine can do it for them,” said Ed Ott, executive director of the New York City Central Labor Council of the AFL-CIO. “The [...]
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Posted in business, capitalism, civil rights, economy, jobs, labor, tagged business, corporate, Deloitte, economy, global, job, labor, manpower, McKinsey, multinational, offshore, outsource on March 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Recently, TNTalk! has been discussing job offshoring or outsourcing. There is still plenty of information to be uncovered, so we will forge ahead in continuation of Dr. Manning’s series of articles this week.
Job outsourcing or offshoring is recognized by Multinational Corporate America as a major strategy for producing cost savings. Determining the values of these [...]
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Posted in banking, business, capitalism, commentary, economy, government, information, technology, tagged Corporate America, free trade, global, job, labor, market, multinational, offshore, outsource, workforce on March 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Recently, TNTalk! has been discussing job offshoring or outsourcing. There is still plenty of information to be uncovered, so we will forge ahead in continuation of Dr. Manning’s series of articles this week.
Job offshoring is not unique to the United States. In the past, common references have been made to Corporate America. In truth, this [...]
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Posted in business, capitalism, civil rights, economy, government, human rights, tagged employment, global, incentive, job, job farming, labor, multinational, offshore, outsource, subsidies, tax law, trade agreement, training, visa on March 21, 2008 | No Comments »
For years, Americans have been urged to “retrain” or acquire additional skills while facing the trend of sending jobs offshore. The sad fact is that the vast majority of jobs Americans can retrain for are being sent overseas. Skill sets have nothing to do the exportation of American employment. The action of Multinational Corporate exploitation [...]
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Posted in business, capitalism, economy, jobs, labor, tagged Corporate America, employment, job, labor, offshore, offshoring, outsource, outsourcing, visa on March 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Bill Gates recently made another pitch towards getting more H-1B workers in the country, telling Washington that, “America will lose its status as a leader in technological innovation unless it allows more skilled workers to enter the country”. The H-1B visa program, which allows Corporate America to bring foreign workers from overseas to work for [...]
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Posted in business, commentary, jobs, labor, tagged amendment, business, constitution, job, labor, legislation, religion, workplace on February 14, 2008 | No Comments »
The debate rages on. Today in the United States, the First Amendment of the Constitution supposes to protect each citizen’s right to the free exercise of his or her religion or by extension, a lack of one. Many U.S. citizens are confronted with the difficult choice of either faith or livelihood. For the seventh year [...]
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Posted in business, civil rights, commentary, economy, immigration, jobs, labor, tagged border, Calderon, drug, immigration, job, labor, Mexico, money, university on February 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For those Americans that don’t know, Mexican President Felipe Calderon is visiting the universities of the United States spreading his rare vision and wisdom to impressionable minds. He is avoiding any contact with U.S. government officials in hopes of shaming them into submission. “The worst thing that happened in this country is this anti-Mexican [...]
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“Parson got a boxed lunch and some clothes at the West Main Mission Friday afternoon. He said he hopes his fortunes will change in a few years, when he’s old enough to draw Social Security.” This is representative of the attitude in Nashville and what people feel they have to look forward to. There is [...]
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