Source: Int. Herald Tribune
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina: Hanesbrands Inc. announced Wednesday it will cut 5,300 jobs and close nine sewing and assembly operations in five countries. The underwear and apparel maker will close plants affecting nearly 5,000 employees in Canada, the United States, Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico as it moves production to lower-cost operations in Asia and Central America. Another 350 management and administration positions also will be cut, mostly in the United States.

The following is a video from the law firm Cohen & Grigsby who teach employers how to hire foreigners via the H1B instead of US citizens. A great way to reduce labor cost and a wonderful way for corporations to make more money, at the expense –and over the backs — of, citizens. The second video is from CNN’s Lou Dobbs, one of the few people left in the media who tells it as it is.

Immigration attorneys from Cohen & Grigsby explains how they assist employers in running classified ads with the goal of NOT finding any qualified applicants, and the steps they go through to disqualify even the most qualified Americans in order to secure green cards for H-1b workers. See what Bush and Congress really mean by a “shortage of skilled U.S. workers.” Microsoft, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, and thousands of other companies are running fake ads in Sunday newspapers across the country each week.

Source: EETimes
WASHINGTON — Alan Blinder, former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, told Congress Tuesday (June 12) that one out of four U.S. jobs are vulnerable to offshoring. Blinder, now an economics professor at Princeton University, told the House Science and Technology Committee that American jobs in science, technology and engineering are most vulnerable to offshoring.

Blinder testified during a hearing on the offshoring of U.S. technology jobs. Committee Chairman Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.) last year successfully pressed the Bush administration to release a controversial 2004 Commerce Department report on offshoring. The report singled out chip design as one of the next U.S. technology sectors likely headed overseas.

Leading-edge design work has not moved offshore, but U.S. design engineers “are facing stiff competition from designers in India who work for lower wages and whose experience and quality [are] quickly improving,” the report warned. “The message of that report,” Gordon said during Tuesday’s hearing, “is that offshoring is happening at significant levels in some industrial sectors and the phenomenon will continue and is likely to accelerate.”