“The GAO has clearly stated in this report that outsourcing of U.S. jobs abroad can not be ignored, and the government needs to act in order to address the issue in terms of data collection and policy solutions.”
“The Alliance at IBM is still an active campaign, but we've not been able to build enough support to get to the point to have a vote. But the pension changes there, or the cutbacks and pension changes just announced at Hewlett Packard show the need for unions. They're unilateral, with no one in position to speak for the employees being affected.”
“If employers are seeing less increases in their healthcare costs, those savings are not passed on to employees but mostly shifted into the bottom line to please shareholders.”
“The high-tech industry is well known for the idea of long work hours with uncompensated overtime. As the finance and rewards have declined after the recession and companies are getting leaner and meaner, workers are less willing to be putting in the long hours without getting compensated.”
“Overall, you can clearly tell what their goal is. In terms of what they're paying out in annual increases to employees, they're trying to hold the line well below 3 percent a year.”
