Comments on: Think Globally? http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/2007/07/12/think-globally/ Issues that matter and resources for white collar workers of any profession or employment status. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:36:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Susan Berlowitz http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/2007/07/12/think-globally/comment-page-1/#comment-29097 Susan Berlowitz Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:55:17 +0000 http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/2007/07/12/think-globally/#comment-29097 I am sympathetic to your situation. We are all in the same boat. We need to organize! I have talked to people who were told to learn another language in order to add to their possibilities for jobs, and when they did, their new language skills didn't add anything to their possibilities. I believe every word you wrote. I am working with some people at www.brightfuturejobs.org who are based in Chicago, and are responsible for the new legislation drafted in the senate by Dick Durbin and Charles Grassley. Most of the Chicago people are tech professionals who are also having a difficult time pasting a life together. While researching, they discovered that the law doesn't require American employers to consider local talent. In other words, "AMERICANS NEED NOT APPLY." The legislation was written after the group showed Dick Durbin the law, as it is written. Do you know who Stanley Aronowitz is? He has been organizing for decades, and he believes that we need to organize. His book, published in 2001, is titled: THE LAST GOOD JOB IN AMERICA: WORK AND EDUCATION IN THE NEW GLOBAL TECHNOCULTURE. The other day, I saw him on one of our Manhattan Access cable channels, in discussion and debate with Laura Flanders. I plan to contact him to see what I can do. I can't sit still and wait for people to act, my situation is too dire for that. Soon, I will be sitting out on the curb in Manhattan. I am sympathetic to your situation. We are all in the same boat. We need to organize! I have talked to people who were told to learn another language in order to add to their possibilities for jobs, and when they did, their new language skills didn’t add anything to their possibilities. I believe every word you wrote.

I am working with some people at http://www.brightfuturejobs.org who are based in Chicago, and are responsible for the new legislation drafted in the senate by Dick Durbin and Charles Grassley. Most of the Chicago people are tech professionals who are also having a difficult time pasting a life together. While researching, they discovered that the law doesn’t require American employers to consider local talent. In other words, “AMERICANS NEED NOT APPLY.” The legislation was written after the group showed Dick Durbin the law, as it is written.

Do you know who Stanley Aronowitz is? He has been organizing for decades, and he believes that we need to organize. His book, published in 2001, is titled: THE LAST GOOD JOB IN AMERICA: WORK AND EDUCATION IN THE NEW GLOBAL TECHNOCULTURE. The other day, I saw him on one of our Manhattan Access cable channels, in discussion and debate with Laura Flanders. I plan to contact him to see what I can do. I can’t sit still and wait for people to act, my situation is too dire for that. Soon, I will be sitting out on the curb in Manhattan.

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