The American Worker Under Assault

Employees at KLA-Tencor in San Jose, CA got some very bad news last night. They were told that they will be required to train a crew of Indians that will be arriving in the morning. After their replacements have been adequately trained their employment will be terminated after 60 days. Once trained, the Indians will be moved back to India to resume operations.

This from zazona.com's Job Destruction Newsletter dated February 23, 2006. It's too new to be in their archives yet, but it should be up in a couple of weeks.

About 15-20 once-loyal employees in the Accounts Payable department are affected. These jobs are considered back office and are mostly clerical. As we all know the BPO business is booming in India, and KLA-Tencor wants to join the party.

The Indians are downstairs at this moment as HR processes them in. TheTencor employees are upstairs waiting to be marched to the execution chamber. Everyone is walking around like zombies. People are crying. It's a bad situation at Tencor right now.

Tencor is using the 60 days employment to blackmail the American employees into training their Indian replacements. If they don't train their replacements they will be fired on the spot. Gracious of them, huh?

Un be-freakin'-lievable. Not really, of course -- we all know this is going on -- but your brain just doesn't want to process the info, does it? It makes my whole body ache to read this shit.

Jake and I are joining an Illinois Minuteman Project rally this afternoon to support the American worker against the invasion of ILLEGAL aliens and those who love them (read: want to give them amnesty). The American Worker is just getting screwed from all sides. If your job isn't threatened by someone coming here ILLEGALLY to take it, your company just might decide to let someone in India do it instead. After YOU train them, of course.

It's bullshit, and to add insult to injury, it's courtesy of THE PEOPLE WE ELECTED TO REPRESENT US.

If you aren't already jumping up and down screaming at them, WHY THE HELL NOT?
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A few good resources...

Numbers USA
Federation for American Immigration Reform
Center for Immigration Studies
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