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The American people never learn, and their whore media are constantly expressing bewilderment at what is absolutely natural for the big capitalist firms to do: destroy anything in their path—jobs, democracy, nature, social security, and global peace—to maximize profits. They’ve been doing this for 300 years.
“I’m shocked, shocked Rick, that profits are being put before people!” Hmmm. Inspector Louie would certainly be aghast at Disney’s policy. What a shock, indeed. A rapacious capitalist!
Heard on the Web:
“Disney is getting its employees to train foreign workers who will take their jobs. American workers who don’t train them are let go with nothing. Those who do the training get to keep their jobs until the training is completed and then get a severance package. It is about time we erected guillotines on every public square…” —Jack Balkwill
Below, an excerpt from the New York Times report on this issue:
In Turnabout, Disney Cancels Tech Worker Layoffs
In late May, about 35 technology employees at Disney/ABC Television in New York and Burbank, Calif., received jarring news. Managers told them that they would all be laid off, and that during their final weeks they would have to train immigrants brought in by an outsourcing company to do their jobs.
The training began, but after a few days it was suspended with no explanation. In New York, the immigrants suddenly stopped coming to the offices. Then on June 11, managers summoned the Disney employees with different news: Their layoffs had been canceled.
“We were read a precisely worded statement,” said one of the employees, who was relieved but reluctant to be named because he remains at the company. “We were told our jobs were continuing and we should consider it as if nothing had happened until further notice.”
Although the number of layoffs planned was small, the cancellation, which was first reported by Computerworld, a website covering the technology business, set off a hopeful buzz among tech employees in Disney’s empire. It came in the midst of a furor over layoffs in January of 250 tech workers at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla. People who lost jobs there said they had to sit with immigrants from India, some on temporary work visas known as H-1B, and teach them to perform their jobs as a condition for receiving severance.
But it remained unclear on Tuesday who had initiated the change of strategy at Disney/ABC or whether it was part of a larger change in direction, because Disney executives declined to discuss it.
READ THE REST OF THE PIECE HERE, if your masochism level allows it, although by now I think you got the point. The capitalists do as they goddamn please in America (and much of the world), and the American people, who are the best positioned to stop them in their tracks, do absolutely nothing.
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