While it might not help we should all write our representatives (us senate and us house) about the outsourcing of US jobs. There needs to be regulation to protect jobs here. This has to stop and its also a security issue since India is not really our friends.
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I think is time to vote against all the cr-p that is not doing their work to protect us.
@1jfn Exxon throws a lot more money at one side than the other. There’s a reason for that, and it isn’t to make all of our lives better.
I don’t blame you for being cynical, but that’s taking the easy way out.
This will be futile. Most of our reps are heavily indebted to oil & gas and consistently vote to weaken worker rights. They will always side with the executives. We created this monster. It’s been happening for a long while to many low & middle income people. Now It’s starting to happen to the higher wage earners. It su-ks, but when making more & more money is the only priority, we all end up losing eventually.
Just spend that effort finding a new job. This company is done. Same trend happened in the 70s and 80s and resulted in other jobs. If you want to save your kids from this situation, invest heavily in their education.
This is the part where OP discovers (shockingly to themselves) that their “local” politicians don’t care at all about the average American worker. Doesn’t matter what party either. Neither care. At. All.
@avq If your job was in any way related to national security, it would require a security clearance and it wouldn’t be outsourced to a non-NATO nation.
Your letter/calls don't matter in terms of lobbying
Losing essential industries and the skills to run them is a security issue.
Duh!
Military spare parts are manufactured at low cost locations and nobody gives the rats behind. Most of the retail stores have items stacked with cheap goods from abroad. If those aren’t security issues, why the useless work done at EMHC is?
Don't worry, the Canadian employees at Sarnia Research will be laid off and replaced with Americans
“This has to stop and its also a security issue since India is not really our friends”
How in TF is this a security issue? You don’t need a government-issued security clearance to work for Exxon. You’re going to write your Congressman and tell them that bouncing vendor purchase specs around is a matter of national security? LOL good luck with that.
@OP Cute idea. Should work in theory. I assume you’re based at EMHC.
This won’t work because EM employees break heavily for the GOP (against their own interests IMO), and the GOP, especially in TX, isn’t going to do jack to protect anyone who isn’t an executive. In fact, they actively work to weaken worker protections.
You can try suing them, but the courts packed with GOP appointees will side with executives every time. The sad thing is that most of you will continue to act against your own interests, and most of you will continue to blame the wrong people for the causes of your problems.
You’ll never guess who donates significant amounts of money to the senato(R)s and majority of (R)epresentatives from TX…