Posted on 05/08/2020 9:44:06 AM PDT by DFG
AS DONALD TRUMP vows to save the economy amid the global pandemic, while the number of Americans filing for unemployment has skyrocketed to 30 million, the Tennessee Valley Authority, or TVA, the nation’s largest government-owned power provider, has announced plans to outsource 20 percent of its highly-skilled technology workforce to Capgemini, CGI, and Accenture — companies based in France, Canada, and Ireland respectively.
At least 120 workers have already learned they will be losing their jobs later this summer, and the TVA has informed the engineers’ union that another 100 jobs are likely on the chopping block. Affected workers were told in late April to prepare to train their own replacements, according to an email reviewed by The Intercept.
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This is really messed up.
TN Legislature needs to suspend salaries of State Employees working at TVA until they reverse this
How about we “outsource” TOP MANAGEMENT to PATRIOTIC AMERICANS!
NO tax monies should ever go to foreign workers.
The TVA CEO’s paycheck is somewhere north of $8 million/year.
I’m fed up with the outsourcing jobs. Create the demand here and eventually the supply will follow. Furthermore, deport every F’ing Chinese student (spy).
Privatize the TVA.
No more taxpayer dollars.
As long as Trump allows the lockup to continue the more he looses.
“TN Legislature needs to suspend salaries of State Employees working at TVA until they reverse this”
It’s Federal.
Disgusting. The TVA CEO needs to be fired.
Contact the President at https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
I just did. Here is what I said:
Dear President Trump,
I write today to call your attention to this despicable ANTI-AMERICAN management decision: “DESPITE SKYROCKETING UNEMPLOYMENT, TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY PLANS TO OUTSOURCE HUNDREDS OF FEDERAL JOBS TO OVERSEAS COMPANIES.”
See https://theintercept.com/2020/05/05/tennessee-valley-authority-outsource-jobs-unemployment/ for more information.
Given your statements on the subject, I am assuming that TVA management will be brought into line?
Make America Great Again, Again!
Very Respectfully,
FRank L. Davis, Jr.,MBA
Captain USN (Ret)
Well, TVA doesn't get federal tax dollars but even if it did:
"TVA claims the jobs will remain in the United States, citing the existence of U.S.-based subsidiaries for some of its vendors."
Outsourcing, which is a common and smart practice throughout almost every industry, doesn't necessarily mean offshoring.
No federal jobs, especially connect with vital infrastructure should ever be allowed to be contracted outside of the USA.
The way the outsourcers profit is by labor arbitrage. The Americans will be gone as quickly as they can be tossed out the door.
Way to stab their workers in the back.
I have heard of other companies doing the same and it does not end well.
I don’t think there are any Tennessee State employees at the Tennessee Valley Authority.
TVA has offices in Knoxville and Chattanooga. The engineering design employees are in knoxville and seem to be the jobs in question. TVA employees are quasi federal employees even though TVA is an independent agency sublect to congressional control
(I’m pretty sure)
Oh and for the record, the valley of the Tennessee river extends from southwest Virginia, down through Tennessee into Alabama and back into Tennessee and thence into Kentucky
“which is a common and smart practice throughout almost every industry” LOL. I’ve seen cluster F after Cluster F due to outsourcing IT.
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