GOP attacks Obama on Jobs from Philippine Verizon Call Center

[Ichingcarpenter]

The Republican National Committee (RNC) used a call center based in the Philippines to hold a media conference attacking President Obama's economic record, the Chicago Sun-Times reported today.The RNC didn't help its image by pointing out that the call was run by Verizon.

Companies like Verizon that have shipped call center operations overseas have contributed to the devastation of the U.S. based call center industry. While the industry still comprises approximately 3 percent of the overall U.S. workforce, the industry lost more than 500,000 jobs between 2006 and 2010, largely because of the off-shoring trend. This continued trend depresses our economic recovery.

Noting that working families today are protesting Verizon's greed at its shareholders' meeting in Alabama, CWA Chief of Staff Ron Collins, who began his career in a Maryland-based Verizon call center, summed up RNC's move this way:

It’s hard to imagine anything more hypocritical than the RNC making calls about U.S. unemployment from a Verizon foreign call center.

http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Economy/Republican-National-Committee-Attacks-Obama-on-Jobs-from-Overseas-Call-Center

[saras]

1. I can think of something more hypocritical - trying to pass a call center off as "jobs"

Just because the world no longer needs very many productive workers doesn't mean we need to condemn everyone else to such a hellish pseudo-job just to keep them busy.

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. ???? We do have US based call centers

Not ones that are based in Asia that the GOP could have used to complain about American jobs programs.

[Zalatix]

4. Perhaps you'd rather that American workers just be unemployed?

[customerserviceguy]

8. While it can be mind numbing

to have to carry out the really stupid policies of management, it still does give a person a sense of accomplishment to help a customer resolve a problem. Of course, I'm lucky enough to have a union job doing it, so I don't feel like a use-em-up-burn-em-out fast food worker every day.

[Enrique]

10. not necessarily

ive done this kind of work and theres nothing inherently wrong with it. The problems Ive seen are the huge imbalance of power between the clients and the workers, which is caused by the clients ability to get so much cheaper labor. Ive even heard bosses use that dangling threat over the workers, at one place some people were complaining about some problem with the ladies room and the boss brought up the outsourcing as a reason why they couldnt afford to fix it.

[pepperbear]

3. rookie mistake...oh, wait...n/t

[MrScorpio]

5. Hypocrisy is the life blood of republicanism. nt

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. Mitt Romney Commissioned Pro-America Pins, Made Them In China

just like this thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014112639

[MrScorpio]

7. If this fool wasn't the front runner of a major party

It would be laughable.

Since elections can go either way, it's scary.

[quaker bill]

9. Pay attention for a week

and something even more hypocritical is bound to arise. It is not as hard to imagine as suggested.

[Scurrilous]

11. K & R