1) Corporations are outsourcing jobs and bring cheap labor into this country.
2) Corporations are forcing salary people to work 50 - 60 hours a week and only pay for 40. There are no jobs to jump too, because the other corporations are doing the same thing.
3) Corporations survey jobs in your area and since they get together and “agree” not to pay more for a job, the salary does not go up.
Why would corporations hire new workers when the have “free” and very low cost labor? Free Capitalism is the best economy in the world, but we no longer have Free Capitalism in this country. The fix is in and all the rules have shifter to the giant Corporations.
This is all made possible by the politicians who write the laws that allow the corporations to screw their employees. Changing jobs does not help, becuase the other corporations are playing by the same rules.
“3) Corporations survey jobs in your area and since they get together and agree not to pay more for a job, the salary does not go up”
Between 1996-2001, it was an absolute sellers marker. Employees were surveying jobs in their area and getting raises by moving to new jobs.
It fueled massive income jumps in some sectors.
Now, we are in a buyers market. “corporations” are not secretly meeting at some free mason club deciding pay rates. They are paying market rates.
And those rates are falling because it is a buyer’s market.
Anyone who says “corporations” get together has never been around a corporation, beyond their own personal sub s.
When we spend about $1T on education that has a massive drop-out rate and its graduates cannot write a sentence of coherent English, have no work discipline, and lack basic math, and for those who enter college the first two years are spent on remedial Math and English, why is anyone surprised that corps flocks overseas.
There are about 1 m jobs that go abegging because of a lack of mid-level to high-level tech skills. This is a structural issue thanks to the entrenched teacher-union interests. Unless and until we break this stranglehold by withholding funds to states that don’t allow for school choice, the problem will remain unsolved.
Domestically, we have 11 m illegals including those who overstay their visas and a liberal H1B program that is a spur to chain migration. Unless Palin or anyone plans to aggressively tackle these thorny issues, all the corporate bashing has only limited if not marginal validity.
China, is a currency manipulator. Romney is onto something here. But this again highlights a key issue of why US exports are unable to reach their full potential- read jobs.
Bush signed NAFTA. Perot was right. The “whooshing” sounds of jobs leaving for South America can now be heard loud and clear.