City Outsourcing Jobs
By Michael Boyajian
Reports by city workers have surfaced stating that not only has the Bloomberg Administration refused to hire qualified workers from nearby Long Island and Westchester not to mention Dutchess, Orange, Putnam and Rockland, but are unable to fill positions from the pool of people living in the city.
The solution the city has come upon is to outsource jobs to consulting firms that fill positions with people living as far away as China, India and Pakistan. Now it should be noted that the policy is not confined to the Bloomberg Administration but goes back over the terms of many mayors.
The problem is though in this day and age jobs for Americans are hard to come by and if you won’t fill a job with a qualified worker who lives a short train ride away why are you going thousands of miles out of your way to fill positions?
One wonders where the keeping jobs in America crowd is now a days. The lead voice for the movement, Pat Buchanan of MSNBC, has been notably silent on the issue. Meanwhile the Bloomberg Administration has been resistant to change only going so far in certain cases to say workers not living in the city must live in the city for the first two years unless they have already worked for the city in which cases they may continue to reside in some counties but not others the choice of which has no basis in geographic logic.
For instance you could live in Orange County but not Dutchess but the only way for someone from Orange to reach the city would be to cross the river to Dutchess, which is nearer to New York, to ride Metro North into Grand Central.
A fellow Room Eight blogger has reported that Albany has forced the city to hire out of town residents from the state yet recent help wanted ads defy the proclamation.
Meanwhile the country is in an uproar over people crossing the border illegally seeking jobs that Americans don’t want while the city is handing jobs that Americans can fill to those from outside the nation without a peep from political leaders or fringe elements like the Teabaggers
One wonders whether the needs of consulting firms are more important than the needs of Americans during this the worst recession since the Great Depression.
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