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2003-11-20 02:32 | User Profile
---------------<<<>>>--------------- JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER by Rob Sanchez [url]www.ZaZona.com[/url] ---------------<<<>>>---------------
This article is quite entertaining but it's obviously a farce. Blue collar workers in the U.S. would never be allowed to work in India or China even if they were willing to endure the sweatshops. The WTO is putting pressure on China and India to have a nonimmigrant visa, so perhaps one day in the future Americans will be able to go there and work for 35 cents an hour, but until then, we will just have to stay in the U.S. and be happy with welfare and unemployment checks.
India has an employment visa, but it's very restrictive. Essentially you can only work in India if you are a businessman setting up a plant to allow more offshoring of US jobs. I called the Indian Consulate in San Francisco and they pointed me to this page for information on what they call "employment visas". They said they don't have a nonimmigrant visa like H-1B or L-1.
[url]http://www.indianconsulate-sf.org/[/url] (click on passport visas)
Business Visa: i)Valid for 6 months/one year with multiple
entries. A letter (on company letterhead) from Sponsoring Organization indicating the nature of applicant's business, probable duration of stay, places and organizations to be visited incorporating therein a guarantee to meet maintenance expenses, etc. should accompany the application. ii) Long term Business visas for ten years (multiple entries) in case of US Citizens and five years (multiple entries) for other nationals are available only to those who have set up industrial/business joint ventures in India. This fact, along with the details of joint venture in India must be mentioned in the sponsorship letter.
China is far more restrictive. Their employment visa is called a "Z Visa".
[url]http://sf.chinaconsulatesf.org/visa/eng/visa0intro.htm[/url]
Z Visa: Issued to an applicant who is to take up a post
or employment in China, and their accompanying family members.
You can't work in China unless you are invited by the Chinese Communist government. One of the methods of getting invited is to bring $3 million US dollars to give to a "city". Since the government owns everything, you will pay the money directly to the Communists, and then of course you are one of their favorite Americans!
Here are some of the Chinese restrictions on employment visas. As you can see, the US has the most generous guest-worker visas of any industrialized nation - or third world for that matter. Singapore is just as tough, and don't even bother to try to work in New Zealand or Sweden.
[url]http://www.china.org.cn/english/2003/Jul/70158.htm[/url]
You have to have a health test to make sure you aren't carrying an infectious disease.
Foreign citizens who have invested more than US$3 million in the city
Senior management staff or technicians who rank as president, vice president, director, general manager, vice general manger, general accountant, or above in joint ventures or foreign-invested companies
Senior advisors who are invited or hired by ministerial-level organizations
Scholars hired at state-level
[url]http://www.freepressed.com/manufacturing.htm[/url]
Blue Collar Workers move to China, India to reclaim lost jobs
Mass exodus of manufacturing jobs prompts mass migration of American workers to the Third World .
Kellerman hopes he will fit in at his new job in Calcutta.
Free Trade Zone--Thousands of blue collar workers are leaving the
United States in pursuit of the 2.7 manufacturing jobs that moved
overseas during the past three years.
Deke Kellerman, a worker at the recently-closed Maytag Plant in Galesburg, Illinois, is moving his family to India so that he can keep his job constructing refrigerators. His pay will be cut from $11.95 to a whooping 35 cents an hour.
"There aren't any jobs here in the states anymore," Kellerman said. "So me and Missy, Deke Jr. and Delyn decided weââ¬â¢d move over there and give it a shot. I figure as long as they got a Mickey Dââ¬â¢s and I can catch the Bears on TV, Iââ¬â¢ll be happy."
The Kellermans are not the only family from the closed Maytag plant that are moving half-way around the world to save their jobs.
Buel Jackson, his wife, Mary and their children Tucker, Conroy and Beldin followed Jacksonââ¬â¢s job all the way to the slums of Surat in the Western Indian State of Gujaret.
"Sure, we donââ¬â¢t have any running water, tuberculosis is rampant and, last week, a couple of buildings in the slum collapsed, killing a bunch of people, but weââ¬â¢re happy...sort of," Jackson said.
In the Jackson familyââ¬â¢s one-room abode, the children sleep on mats on the floor. The youngest child, Beldin, lay on the floor sweating from a severe bout of dengue fever.
"The hardest part for me has been getting used to the food," said Mary Jackson, as she placed a cool cloth on her sonââ¬â¢s forehead. "We canââ¬â¢t afford any."
The slums of Surat may be infested with diseased rats and open sewers, but at least it's close to the sweatshop where the Jackson family works together.
Mary Jackson who used to weigh a portly 180 pounds has lost 50 pounds since the family moved to India three months ago.
She moved about the apartment wearing an Eskimo Joe shirt underneath a Sari.
While the Jackson family used to regularly throw away several pounds of food per week, they now pour a little water into their bowls after they have had their daily allotment of rice so that they can sop up every last morsel of food.
Besides Buel, the rest of the family also works on the assembly line at the Maytag plant for 12 hours a day eeking out barley enough money to survive.
The mass exodus of manufacturing jobs started during President Reaganââ¬â¢s tenure and gained steam when President Clinton signed the NAFTA free trade agreement, which opened up the borders between the US and Mexico. The creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has led to the further loss of jobs. Both groups have loopholes that allow them to overturn national laws in areas such as safety and environmental standards.
"Increasing poverty and joblessness in the United States is not just an afterthought of our policy; it's the main motivation," said Robert Noriega, an assistant secretary of state. "Free trade is primarily about taking jobs away from Americans and creating economies based on slave labor around the world for the financial benefit of multi-national corporations."
Pittsburgh, PA Steel Worker Thomas Barrett, moved his family to Shuiye Town in the Henan Province of China to work for Huaguan Iron and Steel Co. after his company, Bethlehem Steel, shuttered its door earlier this year.
Thomas and Amy Barrett couldn't ask for better jobs except ones that
paid enough to friggin' eat on.
Barrett works 14 hours a day in unsafe conditions while his children
are schooled at the state-run Communist public school where they are
taught anti-American propaganda and to hate Buddhists.
"Well, we couldnââ¬â¢t continued to compete against the slave wages that they pay over here in China so I decided if you canââ¬â¢t beat them join them," Barrett said.
Barrettââ¬â¢s wife, Amy, works in a Textile company where she sews together blue jeans for shipment to the United States.
"Kind of ironic isn't it?" she said.
The 3 million lost jobs are not ever expected to return to the United States. Many analysts predict that within 10 years most of the manufacturing jobs in the country will have been lost permanently.
High Tech jobs are also being shipped overseas as Microsoft and other computer companies outsource tens of thousands of IT jobs to India and Singapore.
"Either everyone will work flipping burgers or we are going to undergo a mass exodus out of the U.S. in the next twenty years," said Jerry Cohen, leader of NoWTO.
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2003-11-20 04:35 | User Profile
This story about "Mr. Kellerman" moving to Calcutta reads like something from "The Weekly World News". Maybe there should be a pic of the "Batboy" next to this story.
What a load of bulltar. No doubt more and more fictitious tales of this manner will be turning up all over. Next to other lies Americans are spoon fed daily.