Guest Post by Joe Guzzardi
In a story that has become all too familiar, AT&T announced that it will be laying off its U.S. tech workers. Many of the displaced Americans have been employed for decades. They will struggle to find comparable jobs and may not even find employment. AT&T will replace these American workers with foreign nationals.
To add insult to the painful injury of being fired during the Christmas season, the outgoing Americans will have to train their H-1B replacements, and aren’t being offered severance pay. Corporations call the forced training process “knowledge transfer.” But the reality is that if the foreign nationals were as skilled as their employers and advocates claim, they wouldn’t need training. The overseas workers have, at best, ordinary skills.
Like many major U.S. companies – Disney, MetLife, IBM, Caterpillar, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Verizon and Bank of America, as well as dozens of others – AT&T has been displacing U.S. tech workers for years. AT&T insiders told Axios, an American news website, that as many as 3,000 finance jobs would be outsourced to Accenture, an Ireland-based globalist organization that has 150,000 employees in India.
U.S. tech workers are deeply disappointed that the Trump administration hasn’t acted to save their jobs. But the disappointment and frustration run even deeper. Since the Immigration Act of 1990 created the H-1B and other employment-based visas, administrations haven’t acted to save American jobs.
On the campaign trail, candidate Trump talked tough. His website posted this now-broken promise: “I will end forever the use of the H-1B as a cheap labor program, and institute an absolute requirement to hire American workers first for every visa and immigration program. No exceptions.”
Instead of meaningful crackdowns, H-1B usage soared in tech-dependent Silicon Valley with approval rates for Apple, Facebook and Google reflecting significant increases over past years. For big tech, the millions of dollars spent over the years lobbying Congress to continue the H-1B program have paid off handsomely, but have hurt experienced American tech specialists.
The harsh truth is that, despite token improvements by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, every year the federal government issues 85,000 H-1B visas that represent potential job losses for employed U.S. tech workers or job opportunities that young American graduates will be denied because of the ready availability of cheap overseas labor. More than 600,000 H-1B workers hold U.S. jobs that should go to qualified American college graduates. As a result, said Sara Blackwell, a Florida-based lawyer who represents displaced citizens, “American workers are tired of waiting for President Trump to do something on this issue.” Two years ago, CBS’ “60 Minutes” featured an H-1B exposé which revealed that “more and more [corporations] are taking advantage of loopholes in the law to fire American workers and replace them with younger, cheaper, temporary foreign workers with H-1B visas.”
Given the ready availability of skilled U.S. tech workers and the well documented, long-standing H-1B abuse, the appropriate number of annual visas that should be granted is zero, a recommendation former USCIS acting director Ken Cuccinelli made earlier this year.
For AT&T, everything is coming up roses; for its soon-to-be-fired employees, not so much. Last year, AT&T booked a $20 billionpaper gain from a federal tax revision that will result in a windfall extra $3 billion in cash. AT&T recently raised its quarterly dividend and has been chosen as one of the best 2020 stock picks, hardly the profile of a company that needs to pinch pennies at the expense of U.S. workers.
Americans deserve to have an equitable chance at getting and keeping jobs located in the U.S. The H-1B visa prevents fairness from playing out.
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The harsh truth is that Trump is a sell out, just like every other fucking scumbag politician you have ever voted for.
The harsh truth is that Trump will use the war machine to boost himself to a political win, and the lives lost mean absolutely nothing to these psychopaths, their currency is power, fueled by greed, there is nothing moral about any of these bastards, and I mean that in the most sincere way.
NAILED IT!
But cognitive dissonance will rule the orange messiah cult.
“Vote Harder”
in light of the “orange messiah” meme, a trope of the left, does “Vote Harder” include fake ballots?
You used the “word”.
Where would we be if the wife of monica’s lover had been elected?
The same fucking place.
I have to play “devil’s advocate” on this one.
Trump is being blackmailed by the “deep state”.
Upon entering public office, Trump DID have good ideas on ways to make the USA prosper.
He accomplished a lot, but found out in short order that his (and our) zionist masters are “pulling the strings”.
Trump can only do so much without his idiosyncrasies being exposed.
Unlike jew mossad epstein, Trump has no place to go if exposed.
“the outgoing Americans will have to train their H-1B replacements”
refuse to train.
Especially if you’re not getting severance. Just Quit. (They’ll probably have to hire you back freelance at a higher rate.)
We had a meeting around 4 months ago ( 15 of us) and we were instructed to train everyone how to do our specific jobs. After the meeting the group asked me what I thought, I said fuck that noise and 4 months later, none of them are trained.
The writing is on the wall that are jobs are going away, but I will not help them with their goal. They removed our titles from our name badges a few weeks ago. We pay upper management lip service and then we do the opposite and we get away with this because upper management has no idea how to perform our specific jobs, Winning!!
Carry on, rant over…
refuse to train? quit?
bs,train them but in a way that effs up the system & then just b4 they fire you,fall & go on work comp–
I would like to introduce a new term some of you might not be familiar with.
Judas goat:
I find it hard to believe a goat can be trained to bring in victims. Could a goat simply go home? Yes. A pigeon can do that. Would that be enough? Just release at some distance from the usual digs? But yes, the term fits alright.
Let’s ask Barry Hussein-surely he has lots of experience with Judas and goats.
So the open border crowd, doesn’t like open borders ?
Good point. Most of them probably didn’t give a **** when low paying jobs were lost to illegals.
Community organizing group ACORN’s motto was “bottom-up, top-down, inside-out”
illegals from the bottom, H1B’s from the (sorta) top, and the middle class gets torn inside out
not for their own nation, no.
“Now when these things had been completed, the princes approached me, saying, ‘The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, according to their abominations, those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians and the Amorites. 2 For they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has intermingled with the peoples of the lands; indeed, the hands of the princes and the rulers have been foremost in this unfaithfulness.’” Ezra 9:1-2
This is the globalist-marxist agenda at work; gutting the middle class is one of the ten planks. Destitute people are easy to control, and AT&T is loyal to its profits, not to the country that built it.
Amen!
“….Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France, 1815
Dig a bit deeper. This article says tech workers. They are actually finance workers. Calling them tech workers is misleading. Further, the jobs are being outsourced, so ATT is not bringing in H1Bs to replace them best I can tell. The jobs are going overseas in all probability.
The root problem in this case: heavily unionized company doing poorly desperate to shed cost and unable to get the union to agree to cost cutting measures. Sound familiar?
“heavily unionized company doing poorly”
“Last year, AT&T booked a $20 billion paper gain from a federal tax revision that will result in a windfall extra $3 billion in cash. AT&T recently raised its quarterly dividend and has been chosen as one of the best 2020 stock picks”
I see gman is clueless. Stock picks relate to the cost cutting we see happening. Revenue is growing at 1% a year, which is poor indeed. A new investor just arrived and is shaking things up and forward stock estimates reflect that. The staff layoffs are part of the plan. That $3 billion is a windfall and not indicative of performance.
Llpoh, seen in that light, you’re probably right.
Girl scammer DESTROYED! [Files deleted]
I love these videos, it shows the scummy side of these mother fuckers.
This guy is good at nailing the wonderful people of India.
Mike Lee (R) Utah
AT&T has tech workers? Who knew? All I’ve ever gotten is a machine to talk to when I’ve called them.
My mobile service absolutely sucks with them. I don’t change provider because I’m not sure if any of them don’t suck.
AT&T overcharged me for several months and I couldn’t resolve it by calling their #, so I went physically into the nearest store. Guess what? Their “associate” had to call the same center I had called. It took about 2 hours to solve. I made a comment about his having to call Bangladesh and maybe I should switch to Verizon. What he said was classic….Verizon has to call Bangladesh too!
My understanding is that AT&T still is the choice of low cost prepaid phone plan companies (like the ones whose phones/recharge cards are sold in grocery stores); there is a reason: AT&T network coverage is most often inferior, especially if one has an older, lower technology phone. Maybe they are hitting a price point, but when calls cannot be completed in the center of the city that is in the wide open spaces then it is time to go to Verizon if you need reliable coverage.
Customer service sucks most everywhere and with most all businesses.
The circle jerk of Wall Street to K-Street to Capitol Street who really run and profit do not give a fuck about any American working people at all .
Any word on an AT& T pension bankruptcy where a 30 plus years of service to the company your pension evaporates into a hedge fund profit margin as your anus bleeds
It’s like a circular firing squad. When nobody has income, what will they be able to buy to from the company that fired them? Circling the drain……waiting for pitchfork day….
When the Board of Directors meets every other month they hear the same story from the highly compensated executives (the ones with the multi million dollar golden parachutes): “We are reinventing the company. Don’t waste time asking about details. Just make sure you up our stock options at least 35% next year”!
That’s how their 40% tax cut trickles down.
The “problem” is the way wall street considers labor…
Labor is never given value, but is a commodity-a “necessary evil” according to the Wall Street types and is to be minimized and marginalized at all costs.
Pre-WW2 Germany monetized labor and gave it value. THAT is the reason that the jews went after Germany. Post WW1 Germany was successful in its economy due to throwing off the shackles (and shekels) of the internationalist banksters.
Henry Ford CREATED a market which had not existed when he paid his employees $5.00 per day when the average wage of the day was around $1.25 per day. His premise was not entirely altruistic as assembly line work was monotonous; a way had to be found to retain employees as well.
Of course, the wall street types and the banksters howled that Ford’s wage rates would destroy capitalism (as they knew it-those at the top reap all of the benefits while the proles are forced to live on a bare subsistence wage, due to the machinations of those at the top).
Guess what??
The OPPOSITE happened. Henry Ford knew one of the basic tenets of a truly free, capitalistic society, that a well-paid work force would be able to participate and contribute to a strong economy, unlike what is taught in business schools today-that wages must be kept to a bare minimum and that the stockholder is king.
Our “free trade” politicians have assisted the greedy wall street types and banksters in depressing wages on the promise of cheap foreign labor and products.
A good example of this is the negative criticism that Costco receives for paying its employees well above market wages. These same wall street types praise Wal-Mart for paying its employees barely subsistence wages while assisting them in filling out their public assistance (welfare) forms.
Any sane person KNOWS that in order for capitalism to work, employees need to make an adequate wage.
Unfortunately, this premise does not exist in today’s business climate.
Henry Ford openly criticized those of the “tribe” for manipulating wall street and banksters to their own advantage, and was roundly (and unjustly) criticized for pointing out the TRUTH.
Catholic priest, Father Coughlin did the same thing and was punished by the Catholic church, despite his popularity and exposing the TRUTH of the American economy and the outsider internationalists that ran it . . . and STILL run it.
Our race to the bottom will not be without consequences. A great realignment is necessary (and is coming) . . .
How many times you going to cut and paste that?
And once again, Ford did not create a market, and had no such intention. Keep saying it, but it is not true.
BTW – pretty sure Ford did not openly criticise the Jews, denied doing so, and issued very expansive apologies for what his media company said.
Here is an excerpt of his apology:
“For some time past I have given consideration to the series of articles concerning Jews which since 1920 have appeared in The Dearborn Independent. Some of them have been reprinted in pamphlet form under the title “The International Jew.” Although both publications are my property, it goes without saying that in the multitude of my activities it has been impossible for me to devote personal attention to their management or to keep informed as to their contents. It has therefore inevitably followed that the conduct and policies of these publications had to be delegated to men whom I placed in charge of them and upon whom I relied implicitly….
Those who know me can bear witness that it is not in my nature to inflict insult upon and to occasion pain to anybody, and that it has been my effort to free myself from prejudice. Because of that I frankly confess that I have been greatly shocked as a result of my study and examination of the files of The Dearborn Independent and of the pamphlets entitled “The International Jew.” I deem it to be my duty as an honorable man to make amends for the wrong done to the Jews as fellow-men and brothers, by asking their forgiveness for the harm that I have unintentionally committed, by retracting so far as lies within my power the offensive charges laid at their door by these publications, and by giving them the unqualified assurance that henceforth they may look to me for friendship and goodwill…
It is needless to add that the pamphlets which have been distributed throughout the country and in foreign lands will be withdrawn from circulation, that in every way possible I will make it known that they have my unqualified disapproval, and that henceforth The Dearborn Independent will be conducted under such auspices that articles reflecting upon the Jews will never again appear in its columns.”
The vagabonds : the story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison’s ten-year road trip / Jeff Guinn, 2019
According to the author, Ford also wanted his highly paid workers to be able to afford the cars they built for the company. Never knew whether his workers owned Fords-would be interesting to find out.
Henry also had considered running for a Michigan senate seat in with a novel approach: he would run in both the Democrat and the Republican primaries and if he won both he’d win the general election without having to run a campaign. The feeling was that his name recognition would carry him into office. There also was talk about a presidential run, but that did not happen. Interesting book about some interesting characters. Oh yes, the author discusses the purchase and operation of the Independent in detail. And, he bankrolled a failing Edison after a fire wiped out his NJ lab.
Don’t like it don’t read it. Ford DID tell the truth about the jewish-run cabal but in later life backtracked. It was probably a good business decision, nothing more. As to your assertion that Ford did not create a market, you are wrong. Ford’s wage structure pushed up wages in other industries as well. I will continue to disseminate the TRUTH as I see fit.
“…Ford DID tell the truth about the jewish-run cabal but in later life backtracked…”
This occurs all too often. At Ford’s level it was, and is, dangerous to lock horns with the ((cabal)).
Trump needs to end this practice since the corporations won’t.
Have known a couple of companies that would fire you if you refused to train your replacement and walk you out the door within minutes of your refusal. If there was any type of severance pay in the deal that was always held over the heads of the workers-do as we say or you don’t get a penny.
I went to the links and found nothing about union workers. ATT has union linemen, what few linemen they still need for the old pole lines they still use. There might be a few admin office workers that are still union. This is about tech workers.
I see this happening in a project my better half is managing. Get rid of the too highly paid engineers and fly in guys from India, put them up in an apartment together until the project is done. They are woefully undertrained and it slows down the project.
They just can’t give America away fast enough. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/03/the-list-17-gop-governors-approve-more-refugees-for-their-states/