• Ford to cut 14,000 US jobs

• Job losses lead to drop in home prices

• W.Va. Mill Town Suffers Slow Death
  National Steel Corp. supported 13,000 families, nearly everyone in a town of about 25,000. The mill was a birthright. Children were raised to believe if they worked hard enough, they would always have a job.

• Outsourcing of Customer Service to India leads to theft - Offshore bank worker arrested in fraud - (link fixed)
  Police in Bangalore, India's technology hub, have arrested an employee at a data processing center for allegedly siphoning $420,000 from the accounts of 20 customers of United Kingdom-based bank HSBC, news reports said Wednesday. The arrest was made after HSBC Electronic Data Processing India Ltd. -- which handles the bank's back-office work from outsourcing centers in India -- filed a complaint saying one of its employees accessed "personal, security and debit card information" and passed them on to associates involved in the fraud. This is the second major bank fraud reported by an outsourcing center in India in less than a year.

• ForeclosureS.com: Western Mortgage Defaults on the Rise
  She went on to say that things were even worse in Michigan where GM and Ford have made massive job cuts. "Michigan experienced 22,742 mortgage default filings in the first quarter of the year," said Ms. McGee. She added, "The Midwest never got caught up in the feeding frenzy that skyrocketed prices in the overheated coastal markets. We suspect that job loss is the major factor for foreclosure increase in the region."  

• H1-B Visa Foreign IT Workers and the Immigration Bill
  IT Unemployment Is About To Take A BIG Jump UP!
  It is no accident that China and India graduate so many more engineers than the U.S. The governments of China and India plan closely with industry and universities to encourage their citizens to obtain four year and advanced college degrees in math and the sciences.
  In contrast, today, the U.S government appears to be working closely with industry and universities to discourage their citizens from obtaining four year and advanced college degrees in math and the sciences. State and Federal governments are slashing support for both universities and students. U.S. students must increasingly borrow large sums of money to finance their college educations.
  
  While government and industry are taking away college access with one hand, they are just as busy taking away technolgy jobs with the other hand by giving giving those jobs to foreign workers.
  
  From the very beginning of the Bush Administration U.S. companies have lobbied Congress and President Bush extensively to obtain greater freedom in hiring cheaper foreign technology workers via H-1B and L1 visa programs. Concurrently, U.S. companies have also been busy relocating many technology jobs offshore to India and China where salaries are a fraction of U.S.-base technology salaries and where there is no health insurance cost – because the governments of those countries provide social health care for their citizens.
  

• Unions worked up over illegal scab labor
  AFL-CIO President John Sweeney says guest-worker programs supported by top Democrats such as Sens. Edward M. Kennedy and Dianne Feinstein are a "bad idea and harm all workers."  "The corporate strategy is export good American jobs and then import cheap labor," he said. "That might be good corporate strategy, but in my judgment, it's not good for the American worker."

• Kraft To Cut 8,000 Jobs 

• China hails Bush's rejection of quotas on steel pipe
  The Chinese Government welcomed the rejection by U.S. President George W. Bush of a request to impose quotas on steel pipe imported from China, a spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce said Monday. This is the fourth time that the president decided not to place quotas on Chinese exports to the United States, the spokesman made the statement on the website of the ministry

• China trumps US as top IT product exporter
  PARIS - China surpassed the United States as the world's top exporter of laptop computers, mobile phones and other information and communications technology devices in 2004, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development said on Monday.

• Report: Ford likely to close five North American plants 

• 'Made in Mexico' Uniforms Miff Border Cops
  WASHINGTON -- The labels inside the U.S. Border Patrol uniforms have been making many federal agents feel uneasy. It's not the fit or feel of the olive-green shirts and pants, but what their labels read: "Made in Mexico." "It's embarrassing to be protecting the U.S.-Mexico border and be wearing a uniform made in Mexico," says T.J. Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council, a 6,500-member union.

• GM to cut 30,000 US jobs
• GM to close a dozen North American manufacturing facilities
• Ford to cut about 4,000 salaried jobs in North America 

• 120 Suspected Illegal Mostly Mexican Migrants Arrested at Wal-Mart Construction Site
  At least 120 illegal immigrants, most of them from Mexico, were detained, Schuylkill County Sheriff Frank McAndrew said. He said he began investigating the site and contacted federal officials after getting complaints from local tradespeople. "You've got a situation here where illegal immigrants are coming into Schuylkill County and taking (local union workers') jobs for eight bucks an hour. They are working for poverty wages, and creating unemployment because our skilled tradesmen are out of work," McAndrew said.  

• Workers at Delphi, Nation's Largest Auto Supplier, Face Uncertain Future After Bankruptcy  
  The bankruptcy filing Saturday sent shock waves through a U.S. auto industry already weakened by high labor costs and falling market share. Spun off from General Motors Corp. in 1999, Delphi has 50,000 U.S. employees.

• Wal-Mart Accused of Denying Lunch Breaks

• Delta Air Lines files for bankruptcy

• China to be world's leading exporter
• EU warns of new China textile 'disaster'
• China Posts Third-Highest Trade Surplus on Record (Update4)

• Labor Day vs. Day Labor - by James Fulford

• U.S. first-time jobless claims climb 

• Record Level of Imports and Surge in Chinese Textile Imports Push Trade Deficit Higher

• Yahoo to give US$1 billion in China deal
  
• Morristown furniture maker to lay off 200 employees - Their work is being outsourced to China.

• Microsoft Backs China Development Center
  Microsoft said last week it would open a software-development center in Beijing with Lang Chao International Ltd., a Chinese computer distributor and software developer in which Microsoft took a $25 million stake last month. - Invest in America! - (Svejk)
  
• Chinese carriers to buy 42 Boeing 787s - (Then copy them and put Boeing out of business)
  
  
• CAN AMERICANS COMPETE? Is America the World's 97-lb. Weakling?
  It’s a crisis of confidence unlike anything America has felt in a generation. Residents of tiny Newton, Iowa, wake up to the distressing news that a Chinese firm—What’s it called? Haier? That’s Chinese?—wants to buy their biggest employer, the famed but foundering Maytag appliance company. - (reader link) - (Commentary)

• CAFTA Guts All “Buy American” Laws: A New Green Light for Outsourcing

• China's NPC vice-chairman meets with US senator
  Senator Mark Dayton from Minnesota expressed his admiration for the tremendous achievements China has made under the guidance of Chinese leadership.
• Dayton co-sponsors bill to protect Minnesota lakes from Asian carp
  
  
• OUR FOREIGN TRADE DEFICIT IS $500 BILLION PER YEAR By Senator Mark Dayton
  Those (NAFTA) imbalances, however, pale in comparison to our trade deficit with China. In 2002, we exported $22 billion worth of goods to China; we imported $125 billion worth of goods, mostly manufactured products, from China! This imbalance has been highly beneficial for China. These investments helped fund a 9.1 percent growth in China's economy last year. There was no recession over there! Presently, there are over 40,000 U.S. business ventures in China. No one has counted how many of them led to the closing of a manufacturing plant in the United States. What we do know is that over 2,600,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost in this country during the past three years.

• North Carolina: Clinton Electronics Plant To Lay Off 250 Workers
  Executives say the facility costs more money to run than it brings in, so, they are moving the jobs to Mexico and to other sites
• North Carolina: Transportation Security Administration says it will eliminate the jobs of 54 screeners in Charlotte
• Indiana: Local Chrysler Foundry To Close; 800 Jobs To Be Lost
• Montana: Stimson workers in shock - Laid-off employees fear looming bills, hope for rehires, retraining
• Mississippi: Textron announces 60 more layoffs at Greenville plant
• Massachusetts: Hard-hit professionals working 'survival jobs' years after layoffs
• New Jersey: PSEG to cut jobs at plants in South Jersey
• Arkansas: Acxiom: New Technology to Help Earnings, May Mean More Layoffs
• US-based Kimball Electronics to set up China manufacturing plant
• Georgia: Candy maker to move to Mexico, leaving 200 jobless

• Americans show interest in learning Chinese
  China is casting such a huge shadow on the United States that many Americans are scrambling to learn the Chinese language in a bid to retain their competitive edge.

• China-Mart Takes Over - By Paul Craig Roberts
  US corporations decided that the way to get rich was to destroy their American consumer base by closing their American factories, throwing their US employees out of work and hiring Chinese instead. What US corporations and the free trade economists overlook is that giving Americans’ jobs to foreigners raises foreign incomes and lowers American incomes. When credit cards and home equity lines are maxed out, there will be nothing to support the US consumer market. - (Svejk)
• 40% of companies plan to outsource to China in the next 3-5 years - (Svejk)

• Kodak Swings to a Loss Again, Targets 10,000 More Job Cuts
• ATA Airlines Cutting 450 Jobs Amid Outsourcing Plans
• HP Expected to Announce Massive Layoffs

• U.S. senator vows to try to stop China-Unocal deal

• Idaho County Sues Over Illegal Immigrant Workers
  BOISE, Idaho -- Faced with the costs of coping with illegal immigrants, one county is looking to the courts for help -- by filing a racketeering lawsuit against the businesses that hire these workers. The legal theory: that a pattern of immigration violations by employers is costing Canyon County millions for law enforcement, education and social services. "Their presence lowers the labor wage for American citizens and removes employment opportunities," county Commissioner Robert Vasquez, an ambitious politician who just started a bid for Congress, said of the illegal workers. "Certainly it uses tax dollars to provide them with educational services, medical care, unemployment compensation for those that are injured on the job. They are a drain on the taxpayers of Canyon County, the state of Idaho and the U.S. in general." - (Invasion!)

• Chinese labor for oil drilling eyed in Colo.
  Canadian oil giant EnCana is considering bringing in Chinese companies to construct and operate drilling rigs in the Colorado Rockies, as the region struggles to keep up with demand and rising energy prices.  "I am totally against the Chinese government running the jobs in our country," said Rep. John Salazar, Colorado Democrat, whose district is most affected by drilling. "With the Chinese government getting involved, it's not even a competitive business model."  Mr. Salazar and other U.S. lawmakers already are concerned about the China National Offshore Oil Corp.'s interest in buying the U.S. oil and gas conglomerate Unocal Corp. - (Svejk)

• Chinese to buy US bike firm Huffy
  Huffy, a 115-year-old US bicycle maker and one of the country's best-known brands, looks set to fall into Chinese hands. Huffy is to reorganise, allowing its Chinese suppliers and a firm linked to the Chinese government to raise their shareholding to 51%. - (Svejk)
  
• IBM Sells PC Business To Red China Concern - America Losing Economic War To Red China - (Svejk)

• GM Hiring in Brazil, Firing in U.S. - (Aryan Barbarian)
  A portion of GM's engineering work that was previously done in the United States is being shipped overseas to Brazil and South Korea, a move that will cost U.S. workers more than 6,000 jobs a year from now until 2008, reported the Times.
• Winn-Dixie Firing Thousands - (Aryan Barbarian)

  1. Round up and deport all illegal aliens
  2. Give all legal, foreign workers six months to leave the country
  3. Only American English will be spoken in all work places
  4. Ballots may only be printed in American English
  5. No foreign ownership of American businesses or property
  6. US to withdraw from all foreign economic treaties such as NAFTA, GATT, the World Bank, etc.
  7. Increase constitutional tariffs until they eliminate competition by foreign slave labor
  8. End all foreign aid and loans
  9. Abolish the private "Federal Reserve"
10. Stop paying usurious interest on the Federal Debt
11. A charge of Treason for theft, export or sale of American Technology
12. Illegal aliens may not transfer money out of US. Tourists may not leave with more than they came with.
13. Abolish income tax.
14. Prevent investment by American Citizens in competing foreign industry or technology
15. (may be revised or expanded...)

• Links to related sites:
• American Workers: High Immigration Harms Many American Workers - NumbersUSA
  
• H-1B is one of many bills that allows companies in the United States to hire foreign workers.
  
• Buy USA Made Products
• US job loses to China
• Constitution Party 2000 Platform - Tariffs and Trade
• Stop Treasonous Export of Technology, Industries and Jobs
  
• Buy American! Save American Jobs! Boycott Walmart!

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