Friday, July 21, 2006

Next up for bids: American Jobs....

I encourage everyone to contact this company to let them know that undercuting the American Worker will not go unnoticed!

Truck drivers from India to take U.S. jobs?Union protests plan as attempt to undercut 'hard-working Americans'


Posted: July 21, 20061:00 a.m. Eastern
By Jerome R. CorsiĀ© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

An American company is recruiting long-haul truck drivers from India with the goal of placing them with U.S. trucking firms.

The Teamsters Union strongly opposes the plan by Gagan Global LLC of Garnerville, N.Y.
Teamsters Union spokesman Galen Munroe told WND the plan "is yet another example of corporations exploiting a visa program to replace highly trained, hard-working Americans with cheap labor from overseas."

Gagan Global has contracted with the Indian state government of Andra Pradesh and its Overseas Manpower Consultancy to run a training school in the Asian country.
Gagan Global CEO Philip Gagan told WND a first batch of 200 Indian truck drivers has been recruited to attend the school in preparation for work in the U.S.

"We are recruiting Indian truck drivers," Gagan confirmed to WND. "We are very demanding on our requirements to get into the school. The requirements are that you have to have five years of heavy driving experience on tractor-trailer trucks, you have to be HIV-negative, have a clean police record, verifiable references that the government in India can verify."
What about the ability to speak English?

"The Indian truck drivers have to be able to read and understand English," Gagan explained. "We like them to speak English. They all speak pigeon-English, mostly what they learned in schools."

This artice continues with some BULL-SHIT about how American workers do not want these jobs! Why don't they just fess up and tell people that they just want to pay $3.00 an hour to line their own pockets! Fuckers!

Here is contact info for Gagan Global LLC :