Every worker is at risk...Part One

There is an unreported transformation of the United States labor
force, to the detriment of American workers. It can be seen in
most industries, job types, skill levels and qualifications; very few
workers will not be affected or protected from the ramifications
of this new phenomena, the devaluation of worker productivity.

It began gradually decades earlier when help desks were sent
'off shore' by many industries to India, Pakistan and South Asia.
The response was a collective shrug, there was little concern
for the direction businesses were going.

This transformation continued with technology and other industries
requesting additional "specialty visas" to bring in more foreign
workers to meet a demand the American workforce could not fill.

Even in the medical industry that projected a boom due to our
aging population brought in more foreign doctors to fill the void
due to this shortage as our medical schools failed to meet the
increased demand.

Immigrants, legal and illegal, always competed with low skilled
Americans for most retail and fast food jobs but our government's
failure to properly administer immigration worsened the problem
as many more foreign workers, including illegals, are now holding
jobs that had always been the career foundation for workers just
starting out.

And, for the past three decades major industries have been laying
off their employees long before they earned full pensions or eligible
for Social Security.

This transformation began two decades after World War II  ended,
forcing older workers to take positions paying less, even parttime
jobs! Tens of thousands of workers in the prime of their earning
years now had to face paying their mortgages, their child's college
tuition which now comes a necessity and saving for retirement on
reduced incomes.

During this same time-frame international trade agreements cost
American workers higher paying manufacturing jobs as companies
went overseas where corporate tax rates and labor costs are much less.

The only safe havens for American workers appears to be jobs in
government which continues to grow, select industries favored
by politicians and public education.

The 'professionals' who study such things tell us this transformation,
a word they refuse to even acknowledge, is "the new normal" American
workers need to accept and most do!

This transformation can be seen on the very visible "earning side",
yet little is said about the "spending side", equally important and
needs to be examined too.

End of Part One



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