The Tandoori Trifecta Strikes Again

Every week, either Moira Herbst, Prof. Fraudwha, or Steve Hamm at Business Week, the Tandoori Trifecta, post some non-news about outsourcing on their site.

They love the traffic. Mostly it is NASSCOM propaganda, but these articles now get hundreds of comments. Of course, 90% are in favor of the American worker.

But lately, Herbst and Hamm have been htting India, Inc. pretty hard:

"...But U.S. tech worker groups say this arrangement allows outsourcers to displace American workers both while the visa holders are in the U.S. and when they return home. They say the visas depress wages in the U.S. by increasing the supply of workers. An April 2009 report written by Prasanna Tambe of New York University's Stern School of Business and Lorin Hitt of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania estimates that H-1B admissions at the current levels are associated with a 5% to 6% drop in wages for computer programmers and systems analysts over time. Durbin and Grassley say their legislation is aimed at halting the use of U.S. work visas to send jobs overseas and lower wages..."

"...Natarajan Chandrashekaran, chief operating officer of Tata Consultancy. "We certainly have to be watchful."

- Link

Yes, Mr. Chandrashekaran, you should be watchful. Don't stand too close to that subway platform.

And I can neither confirm that my threats to these journalist's careers and credit records have anything to do with this sudden objectivity.

THERE WILL BE RETRIBUTION

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