Belfast email company "release" employees

by xAnonx Fri Dec 05, 2003 19:46

I meant to say 100 more jobs by March

by Anonmazon Fri Dec 05, 2003 19:56

Thats fair enough, if the Indians can work longer for less money its just the right business move to make. Whats the big deal? Slave labour is cool.

by bad bet inn Sun Dec 07, 2003 23:12

Multinational/buisness enterprises relocating to third world economies to take advantage of slave labour, lax health and safety regulations and a non unionised workforce, is Globalisation as advocated by Tinpot tony.

This is what Tony, Bush and G8 have envisaged for the world. Massive Unlimited and unchallenged profits for the buisness classes. Mass unemployment for unionised western workers. What Tony and Bush hope is to force wages in the west down, to similar levels in the east, to break union power, and create a servile, low paid workforce unwilling to challenge unfair and unjust working conditions and practises for fear of managment closing down factories in europe and the west to relocate to the third world.

We see this happening at Shorts recently.Where Shorts employees were told to take a wage cut, because other Shorts global employees had taken wage cuts. Whilst managment and senior executives refuse to relinquish paying themselves exorbitant wage packets and profits.

by Finacle Mon Dec 08, 2003 11:34

The comparison with slave labour and outsourcing to India is misleading.

The level of education is extremely high, and the cost of living extremely low. You can pay a person from india a wage of approximately €3000 per annum and that gives them an oustanding standard of living. Also, you can get staff with numerous relevant qualifications.

When the option is paying a less-educated Irish person €60,000 per annum... why bother?

[PS my figures above are based on a financial institution in Ireland which outsources some of its business to India.]

by united capitalist cunt front Mon Dec 08, 2003 16:08

Outsourcing to india, or relocating to the third world to exploit third world slave wages, lax health and safety regulations and a non unionised workforce.
Workers in India, may be paid slightly more than their average local slave wages.

At the same time the companies managment get to pay their workforce pittance if transposed to western living standards, whilst simultaneously management get to pay themselves the same big pay packets or make more profits due to exploiting third world workers.
Here we have the repeated laughable lie from the united capitalist cunt front, that western workers are not qualified, to the standard such companies require.

When in fact most of these fly by night call centres/clerk paper pusher jobs, train up employees. These companies deliberately target unqualified staff, to pay them the lowest wages possible and train up these employees whilst they're on the job.

by Finacle Mon Dec 08, 2003 16:47

OK - if you can give me ONE example of a major European company which has outsourced to India on a large scale that exploits the Indian staff I'll say you're right.

I'll give you a few starters;
* Bank of Ireland - nope.
* British Airways - nope.
* UPS - nope.

The people these companies employ are not the same type of people exploited by, say, Nike or Benetton or the GAP. These are educated workers getting an EXCELLENT wage in India. Buying houses, having familes, being happy. If insult them by lumping them in with the truly exploited.

by Ga man Mon Dec 08, 2003 17:00

There are different forms of exploitation.

And this is surely one:
'We find showing new staff videos of Yes, Prime Minister is particularly effective,' said Raman Roy, Spectramind's chief executive. 'They get a two-hour seminar on the royal family. We download the British tabloids from the web to see what our customers are reading. We make new staff watch Premier League games on TV.'

Making staff watch Premier league games. Now that is torture!!!