Video: How not to hire amerian workers

[WingNaPrayer]

Wow! Thats not only horrific, it's embarassing!

I'm betting AMR has sent reps to more than a few of those seminars! It just reeks of their style, especially in light of how short-staffed AA is at all of their hubs and small stations. Short staffing makes for an easy transition when the time comes to kill off the family and bring in the replacements.

 

[Bob Owens]

Found the Chinese equivelent of the TWU/AA. http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/06/27/...?partner=alerts

The All-China Federation of Trade Unions has been setting up branches at hundreds of foreign companies in a campaign launched last year.

The ACFTU often is regarded not as an advocate for better pay and working conditions for employees but as an intermediary that represents employers to workers.

 

[eolesen]

Wow! Thats not only horrific, it's embarassing!

I'm betting AMR has sent reps to more than a few of those seminars! It just reeks of their style, especially in light of how short-staffed AA is at all of their hubs and small stations. Short staffing makes for an easy transition when the time comes to kill off the family and bring in the replacements.

If you'd said Sabre, I'd agree with you. I saw very few programmers who weren't shipped in from Indonesia, Malaysia, India, etc.

Only an alarmist would think that AMR would go thru the legal hassles and expense of recruiting foreign nationals to come here to work front line jobs.

If AA really wanted the cost advantage that comes along with foreign labor, they'd already be shipping work to where the labor is (starting with things like call centers), instead of trying to work around US immigration law.

 

[Wretched Wrench]

If AA really wanted the cost advantage that comes along with foreign labor, they'd already be shipping work to where the labor is (starting with things like call centers), instead of trying to work around US immigration law.

AA started doing that back in the 70s, with key punch operators in Haiti. Some of our engine work is done in Mexico. Tires, too, I think. Prolly more.

 

[eolesen]

AA started doing that back in the 70s, with key punch operators in Haiti.

IIRC, that happened about the same time that Revenue Accounting closed down in Lake Success, NY and moved to TUL (worthless trivia: LSC is still the city code in Sabre used for maintaining accounting information such as valid ticket forms, ATAC control tables, etc.).

By the time I joined in the late 80s, key punch stuff was in SDQ, and when AA sold off that subsidiary to NPC in the mid 90's, the SDQ facility stopped doing ticket keypunch in favor of medical records keypunch (probably a lot more profitable, too), and ticket keypunch was moved to Juarez, MX, just across the border from ELP.

The move of keypunch was twofold -- the hourly workers doing keypunch were less willing to move to TUL (as were a a large degree of clerical and secretarial staff at 633 Third), but there was also some degree of Caribbean politics involved. In a lot of the LatAm and Caribbean countries, AA's ability to do business seems to get better if jobs are created in those countries... That's why AA still has Flight Dispatch LIM and the tiny flight attendant crew bases that were inherited from Eastern and Braniff.

 

[Winglet]

Not surprising. Everyone knows that this has been going on for a long time with the approval of both political parties and the Bush administration.

The corporate elites in American business these days have loyalty only to themselves and, I believe, could care less about the USA, except for how the system makes them money. They see themselves as "above" the petty loyalties of duty, honor, country. That stuff is a concept to be feined and only heartfelt by the useful fools of the working class.

 

[Barfbag]

Video: How not to hire amerian workers

amerian?

That's right Armenian. Armenia

 

[Chuck Schalk]

Please forward the video link as this is our future for the average american worker.