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Wednesday, January 25, 2006

FAIR: As Ford Downsizes Its Workforce, Bush Plans to Downsize Work

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The American worker is caught between outsourcing jobs and importing foreign workers, and no one in Washington is standing up for them. As 55,000 Ford workers join 50,000 General Motors workers facing the prospect of finding new jobs, the Bush administration is pushing a new foreign guestworker plan to import workers, the Democrat leadership is pursuing increased immigration, and organized labor is disintegrating, with a growing number of unions focused on organizing immigrant workers rather than defending American jobs.

"The image of an industry that practically invented the middle class worker is crumbling before our eyes, while the president puts out a 'Help Wanted' ad for millions of low wage workers," observed Dan Stein, president of FAIR. "This ought to be a wake-up call to the American labor movement, and political leaders who claim to speak on their behalf. We are rapidly approaching the point of no return for the middle class in America, as we export high wage jobs and import low wage workers," said Stein.
Dan Stein is doing some great work at his joint, FAIR. Check'em out.

h/t Lonewacko