Potential rebirth of militant unions

[Captain Awesome]

Rwede, you are off the mark about the "work hard and improve yourself" notion. That used to be the deal.

Pretty sure it's still the deal.

[hobbyguy]

See my last comment paragraph with "dead in the water".

Yes you should work hard and improve yourself, but for many folks, they do that and their jobs - even at profitable companies - get sent to China or Mexico or wherever. Do a little digging and you find hundreds and thousands of examples of that. Even mega profitable RBC, was caught doing that - replacing employees that were doing a good job with cheaper ones in India. No necessity for that move at all, just greedy CEO types wanting to move from gold-plated to solid gold terlet seats on their yachts.

As evidence that practice is not unusual, take note of this article: http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/igate-the-firm-at-the-centre-of-rbc-s-outsourcing-scandal-1.1231658. The company noted, iGate, makes a billion dollars a year selling out graduates in North America that have worked hard, improved themselves, and are doing a good job.

So the unwritten deal regarding work hard, improve yourself, and you will prosper is dead as a doornail. However, as I stated before, if you don't do those things, then you personally will be "dead as a doornail".

Tech job availability masked the decline in middle class manufacturing jobs as they were automated and off shored. Now the same is happening to the tech jobs and any other job that the "Bains" can figure out a way to move.

[logicalview]

Do a little digging and you find hundreds and thousands of examples of that. Even mega profitable RBC, was caught doing that - replacing employees that were doing a good job with cheaper ones in India. No necessity for that move at all, just greedy CEO types wanting to move from gold-plated to solid gold terlet seats on their yachts.
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HG - sometimes, briefly, there is a point in your leftist ramblings, but it's always lost in the miasma of hyperbole, misquotes and spin of actual events into complete fabrication, as in the above. The RBC story was a complete fabrication by the CBC, and utter nonsense. The fact you are still clinging to this silliness belittles everyone reading this forum.

The temporary foreign workers controversy, in other words, is mostly a fraud. It harnesses crude xenophobia (don’t foreign workers have rights, too?) in the service of opposition to outsourcing generally, itself merely a specific expression of a broader protectionism. In every case, the underlying supposition is the same: that some jobs can be saved by preventing others from being created; that jobs can long be preserved because of government fiat, rather than because it is in employers’ interest to hire; that jobs, indeed, are a form of property, and not a contract between two willing parties. We may wish they were, but they are not.

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/201 ... mic-fraud/

It’s been a battle between two giant Canadian institutional forces. In one corner the CBC and the labour left. In the opposing corner, RBC and the Canadian banking industry. Guess who won.

Facing a continuing assault from a fiction-based media and union campaign over foreign workers and outsourcing, RBC Chairman and CEO Gord Nixon capitulated Thursday with an “Open Letter to Canadians” that was instantly branded as a grovelling apology. “Royal Bank chief executive makes public apology for outsourcing jobs,” said a Toronto Star web headline.

That’s not quite what Mr. Nixon said or did, but what else can be expected from this catastrophic media-creation of a story. RBC might as well have dumped a million barrels of crude oil into Toronto Harbour and Lake Ontario for all the criticism and attacks it has received over a routine business practice of using an Indian outsourcing company, iGate, to obtain better service for clients at lower cost to benefit the bank. This a story bubble blown up by the CBC out of the mistaken impressions of one worker about RBC’s outsourcing program. That employee’s misconception was manufactured by the CBC into a temporary foreign workers scandal, a scandal that Andrew Coyne aptly described in a column on Thursday as mostly a fraud.

The CBC was at it again last night with an incoherent video of the backs of the heads of two men, allegedly two gentlemen from India, who seemed to be claiming some nefarious doings about their treatment as temporary workers. Their story–impossible to follow logically– was bolstered by a hyperventilating lawyer. At the same time, Mr. Nixon’s open letter was portrayed as a blanket admission of corporate guilt.

http://opinion.financialpost.com/2013/0 ... tsourcing/