Thousands march in South Africa demanding undocumented migrants leave the country

 

Hegseth Brings 'Arsenal of Freedom' Tour to Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth F-35 Plant

Hegseth Brings 'Arsenal of Freedom' Tour to Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth F-35 Plant


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Speaking on the factory floor in front of a newly completed F-35, Hegseth thanked the more than 600 employees in attendance for their role in equipping the U.S. military.

Lockheed Martin on Monday welcomed U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to its F-35 Lightning II production facility in Fort Worth as part of his nationwide Arsenal of Freedom Tour, a visit that highlighted the company’s central role in U.S. defense manufacturing and a record year for the world’s most advanced fighter aircraft.

Hegseth toured the F-35 final assembly line, met with Lockheed Martin executives, and addressed more than 600 employees inside the sprawling North Texas facility, which employs roughly 19,000 workers. The Fort Worth plant is the sole final assembly site for the F-35 and anchors a national supply chain of more than 1,900 suppliers, over half of them small businesses.

“I’m looking out into an incredible audience of Americans here who are committed to an incredible company that’s building incredible platforms,” Hegseth told employees. “Thank you for accepting and grasping the challenge of President Trump as well as our department. We are shoulder to shoulder with you because we can’t deter the next conflict without the skills and capabilities you have.”

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Donald Trump owes his electoral victory to his campaign’s gains among Latino and Black voters. But the nominees for his historic second presidency largely reflect the overwhelmingly white makeup of Washington power.

Thus far, Trump has nominated one Black American to his 16-member Cabinet: Scott Turner for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. He has also selected two Latino nominees: Lori Chavez-DeRemer for Secretary of Labor and Marco Rubio for Secretary of State.

When Trump was elected in 2016, his Cabinet included 19 white men, making it the least racially diverse group of the president’s closest advisers and heads of institutional power in more than 40 years.

Trump has nominated Scott Turner for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (AP)

At the time, he had also appointed only one Black nominee to his cabinet; Ben Carson, like Turner, was also tapped for housing secretary.

But out of the 26 nominees for top roles in Trump’s next Cabinet and Cabinet-level positions thus far, 19 are white.

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SEE IT: AOC’s math skills slammed in NYC billboard

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

by Heather Hamilton, Social Media Reporter

March 12, 2023 06:00 AM

A campaign slamming Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has erected a billboard specifically targeting the congresswoman’s “economic ineptitude.”

Job Creators Network unveiled its latest billboard in Times Square this week, following Ocasio-Cortez’s recent gloating over her objection to housing an Amazon headquarters in New York City after its construction near Washington, D.C., was stalled.

The Jobs Creator Network erected a billboard in Times Square on March 7, 2023, blasting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (D-NY) economic positions.
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The congresswoman said the project’s temporary stopping indicated that it was a "scam of public funds.” Amazon officials, however, have said the project’s timeline was simply being adjusted and assured it will still create more than 8,000 jobs.

“If Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spent as much time worrying about creating jobs versus killing them, the U.S. economy would be in a lot better shape than it is today,” JCN President and CEO Alfredo Ortiz told the Washington Examiner. “Her recent victory lap over killing thousands of good paying jobs in New York City is only the latest example of her economic ineptitude.”

The billboard reads, “Hey AOC, There You Go Again… Your District Loses Thousands of Jobs and You Take a Victory Lap?” It also blasted the representative’s math skills: “Your Math Skills Are Worse Than We Thought.”

It features a picture of Ocasio-Cortez in the infamous “Tax the Rich” dress that she wore to the Met Gala, an event that the representative has come under scrutiny for attending.

JCN said Ocasio-Cortez’s policies have not only killed economic opportunities for New Yorkers but are “incentivizing residents to move to places like Florida and Texas.”

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Biden Admin Finally Admits Canceling Keystone Killed Tens of Thousands of Jobs, Billions In Revenue

BRITTANY M. HUGHES | JANUARY 5, 2023


The Biden administration is finally fessing up to slaughtering tens of thousands of jobs and costing the economy billions in a quietly-released December report that no one noticed amid Congress passing trillion-dollar-plus spending bills that lavished millions on things like wax museums and hiking trails.

While Americans were wrapping up their Christmas shopping and taking out loans to buy eggs and butter for their holiday cookies, Biden’s Department of Energy released, without any fanfare at all, a report that acknowledged the Keystone XL Pipeline, a Trump-greenlit project canceled by President Joe Biden on his first day in office, would have created nearly 60,000 jobs and added almost $10 billion to the economy.

And that’s to say nothing about the individual impact on average Americans’ wallets thanks to what would have been increased energy independence.

Related: Killing Keystone: How Biden & The Left Destroyed American Energy Independence

According to the report, which was finally pointed out by Montana Sen. Steve Daines, the Canada-to-U.S. pipeline funneling crude oil would have created up to 59,000 jobs and added $9.6 billion to the economy. As it was, about 11,000 current and planned jobs were lost when Biden caved to green-agenda hemp chewers and nixed the project in January of 2021. Had it not been canceled, the pipeline would have been completed by the beginning of this year and would have funneled about 830,000 barrels of Canadian crude oil to refineries in the U.S.

In the meantime, gas hit between $5 and $7 a gallon - and even higher in some states - last year before finally falling to more manageable prices, though the cost of goods and services remains high and inflation hovers about 7%.

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Religious leaders call for end to Trudeau's rights-based job funding rules

The government has said organizations seeking summer job funding will have to affirm their 'core mandate' doesn't oppose human rights, including those related to abortion

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau answers questions from the public during his town hall meeting in Hamilton, Ont., on Wednesday, January 10, 2018.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette



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Religious leaders are calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to reverse a policy that requires organizations to pledge their respect for abortion rights and the rights of LGBTQ Canadians before receiving federal funding to create summer jobs for youth.

Nearly 90 representatives of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, the Canadian Council of Imams, and the Jewish Shaarei Shomayim Congregation and other faith groups have issued a letter to Trudeau, urging him to accommodate the “diversity of values and beliefs in Canadian society.”

Trudeau’s government has said organizations seeking summer job funding will have to affirm that neither their “core mandate” nor the job itself oppose human rights, including those related to abortion, sexual orientation and gender identity.

Officials have clarified that the core mandate refers to groups’ “primary activities,” not their religious views.

The government says it received complaints last year that summer job funding had been given to summer camps that refused to hire LGBTQ staff and groups that distribute graphic anti-abortion pamphlets.

Archbishop of Toronto Cardinal Thomas Collins said at a news conference presenting the letter that it was unfair for the government to address specific concerns about the types of jobs being given to youth by using a “broad-brush” ideological test.

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California Restaurants Launch Nation's First Transgender Jobs Program

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The unemployment rate for transgender people is double that of the general population. Now, California has set up the nation's first ever large-scale program to help transgender people find jobs.

And it's all because of Michaela Mendelsohn, a trans woman who's employed trans people at her restaurants for years.

More Wealth, More Jobs, but Not for Everyone: What Fuels the Backlash on Trade

Cathy Marsh, a former employee of the steel mill in Granite City, Ill., organized donated food for laid-off workers this month. Credit Whitney Curtis for The New York Times



Trade is under attack in much of the world, because economists failed to
anticipate the accompanying joblessness, and governments failed to help.


By PETER S. GOODMAN

 SEPT. 28, 2016



ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands — For as long as ships have ventured across water, laborers like Patrick Duijzers have tied their fortunes to trade.

A longshoreman here at Europe’s largest port, his black Jack Daniels T-shirt, hoop earrings and copious rings give Mr. Duijzers the look of a bohemian pirate. His wages put him solidly in the Dutch middle class: He has earned enough to buy an apartment while enjoying vacations to Spain.

Lately, though, Mr. Duijzers has come to see global trade as a malevolent force. His employer — a unit of the Maersk Group, the Danish shipping conglomerate — is locked in a fiercely competitive battle with giants scattered from Dubai to South Korea.

He sees trucking companies replacing Dutch drivers with immigrants from Eastern Europe. He bids farewell to older co-workers reluctantly taking early retirement as robots capture their jobs. Over the last three decades, the ranks of his union have dwindled to about 7,000 members, from 25,000.

“More global trade is a good thing if we get a piece of the cake,” Mr. Duijzers said. “But that’s the problem. We’re not getting our piece of the cake.”

The Mette Maersk, a Danish-flagged behemoth, at APM Terminals in Rotterdam. On a recent afternoon, 18,000 shipping containers were stacked like children’s blocks on a deck longer than three football fields, bearing auto parts, scrap metal and electronics. Credit Ilvy Njiokiktjien for The New York Times

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Assist the Site Supervisor in leading the Cabling and Infrastructure Build Team in their performance of each Data Center build/retrofit project, including allocation of resources, task assignments and ensuring the quality of their installation, per design and completed on schedule.
Develop early equipment procurement recommendations and monitor timelines.
Determine all hardware and materials required to complete each build/retrofit project and work with chosen suppliers via SCO to procure.
Create Bill of Material for site requirements.
Perform installations on an as-needed basis and the example in which the Team is to perform.
Coordinate schedule and impact assessments with Operations and Construction teams.
Oversee operational activities such as Rack Moves/Adds/Changes and capacity upgrades.
Perform Quality Assurance audits to ensure DCC work meets standards.
Identify any process improvements.
Coordinating internal staff and consultant teams as required.
Provide weekly project status report (financial, schedule, quality).
Responds to operational escalations and emergencies as required.
Assist in developing network cable/rack/cabinet installation processes and standards.
Ensure installation/tests are documented in accordance with procedures.Requirements:

Experience in the design coordination and installation of structured cabling solutions and seismic support systems for large-scale Data Centers and telecommunication facilities.
Experienced in Fiber Optic troubleshooting and performance testing.
Training and certifications in Network Cabling and Telecommunications standards for copper and fiber per IEEE/ANSI/TIA/EIA and BICSI standards are strongly desired.
Background in Project Management and delivering on time, within budget and to applicable standards.
Practiced in working with industry standard construction build codes and safety requirements including OSHA, ITIL, NFPA and C7 (Low Voltage Systems) Licensing.
Experience in closely supervising contractors, constructors and multiple suppliers all towards meeting the same build objectives.
Effective negotiation skills and ability to provide solutions to complex problems under pressure.
Must be fluent in English and have effective communications skills.
Must be familiar with MS Project, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.Industry: Internet


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Sharp Fall in U.S. Hiring Saps Chance of Fed Rate Increase in June

By PATRICIA COHEN and BINYAMIN APPELBAUM

JUNE 3, 2016


The government reported on Friday that employers added just 38,000 workers in May, a troubling sign that the economic recovery may have stalled, at least temporarily, and a sharp slowdown in hiring that is expected to push back a decision by the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates.

Despite the anemic job gains, the official unemployment rate, which is based on a separate survey of households, fell to its lowest point in nearly a decade, 4.7 percent from 5 percent in April. But the decline was primarily a result of Americans dropping out of the labor force rather than finding new jobs.

“Boy, this is ugly,” said Diane Swonk, an independent economist in Chicago. “The losses were deeper and more broad-based than we expected, and with the downward revision to previous months, it puts the Fed back on pause.”


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Catholic Church calls on employers to pay a 'Living Wage'

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To coincide with Living Wage Week, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales together with three of its leading Catholic Agencies: the Catholic Education Service, CSAN (Caritas Social Action Network) and CAFOD, have reiterated the Church’s teaching on just wages and its support for the Living Wage and its importance for the support of workers’ families.

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference and the Catholic Education Service have produced a Living Wage Resource encouraging Catholic organisations, schools and charities in England and Wales to work towards its implementation.

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, the Catholic Education Service, CSAN and CAFOD are all accredited Living Wage Employers.

Quoting the resolution which the Bishops’ Conference passed in 2012, Mgr Marcus Stock, General Secretary of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, said: “The Bishops’ Conference fully endorses the principle of the Living Wage and invites Catholic organisations and charities in England and Wales to work towards its implementation.”

Paul Barber, Director of the Catholic Education Service, said: “We welcome the Bishops’ invitation to support the Living Wage. The importance of a ‘just wage’ can be found in Catholic Social Teaching, spanning over 100 years.”

“Schools and colleges play a central role in our Catholic communities and we recognise that, though schools often face financial pressure, this is one way in which we can live out our faith in service to the Common Good.”

Helen O’Brien, Chief Executive of CSAN, the domestic social action agency of the Catholic Church, added: “Many Catholic Charities are increasingly witnessing more families living in ‘in-work poverty’ and struggling to afford the very basic costs of living such as food, utilities and rent payments. We recognise the importance of just wages as well as fair terms and conditions of employment.”

“CSAN is committed to the principle of a Living Wage, which not only enables individuals to provide materially for their families but also allows them to spend quality time with their children”.

Chris Bain, Director of CAFOD, commented: "Scripture makes many references to the importance of paying a right and just wage for work done. Although we were already paying the Living Wage for our staff before the joining the campaign, our Facilities Manager was also able to secure a Living Wage for the contract staff who deliver some of the services for CAFOD through third parties. We also feel that it was important to become a Living Wage employer as an expression of our solidarity with the principles of a paying a living wage and with those individuals and organisations striving to achieve fair pay."


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Call for Applications: ADRA Vice President for Programs

Tuesday, April 23, 2013


Vice President for Programs Search Announcement Adventist Development and Relief Agency International



The Adventist Development and Relief Agency International announces the search for its Vice President for Programs.

The Agency

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency International (ADRA International) is the global humanitarian organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church that exists to demonstrate God's love and compassion by means of seeking just and positive change in the world through empowering partnerships and responsible action.

ADRA International was established by the Church as a way to follow Christ's example of serving and caring for those in need. In its efforts to improve lives it works to eliminate deprivation and social injustice throughout the world. To this end ADRA International invests in the holistic potential of individuals, families, and communities through engaging in advocacy, promoting health and nutrition, developing sources of revenue, and responding to human crisis everywhere.

From its beginnings in November 1956 ADRA's work now embraces major programs in a variety of countries emphasizing community development, food safety and distribution, institutional development, and ongoing disaster relief. From an initial staff of approximately 600 ADRA has increased its human resources steadily to its current workforce of 5,131 employees in more than 120 countries throughout the world.

ADRA is currently one of the leading non-governmental relief organizations in the world. In 1997 the agency was granted General Consultative Status by the United Nations, a unique opportunity giving ADRA added voice in the international community. In 2011 it assisted more than 32.5 million people with nearly US$64 million in aid through 1643 development projects. As new challenges and needs arise, ADRA continues to strive to realize its mission on behalf of the people of the world.

The Vice President for Programs is ADRA's administrative officer responsible for providing coordination and leadership to the main functions of the Agency’s international programs and projects.

The ADRA International President invites nominations and applications for the position of Vice President for Programs of ADRA international.

Vice President for Programs Responsibilities and Expectations

ADRA International seeks a visionary Vice President for Programs with an innovative and farsighted perspective. The candidate must be an energetic, forward-thinker with creative attitude combined with high ethical standards and an appropriate professional image. Candidate must be committed to fostering collaborative relationships among ADRA's worldwide network of participating agencies and be capable of initiating, developing and maintaining partnerships with other organizations and USAID which are imperative to ADRA’s work. The Vice President for Programs must have the capacity to relate to people at all levels of an organization using excellent communication skills, demonstrated through an ability to respond effectively to sensitive or complex issues, including awareness and respect for cultural differences. Candidate must be able to demonstrate competency in USA based funder grants, contracts, and other award management and planning.

The Vice President for Programs reports to the ADRA International president and operates within the imperative to collaborate with ADRA International leadership—to maximize the strategic trajectory of the agency toward achieving its mission. ADRA's Vice President for Programs is expected to be an advocate for justice and quality of life throughout the world and typically must travel up to 50% time, often on short notice, for extended periods, in international and domestic settings.

The Vice President for Programs' specific responsibilities includes:

Relationship to Internal Agency and Network Leadership.

Providing knowledgeable information about the industry; plan, develop, organize, implement, direct and evaluate the organization’s programs; planning and management function and performance; participate and lead as requested in the development of the agency’s strategic plans and programs; evaluate and advice on the impact of long term planning, introduction of new programs/strategies, funding agreements, and regulations; participate in the program planning and management teams by providing timely and accurate analysis of relevant documents and information in order to lead senior executives in performing their responsibilities; enhance and develop, implement and enforce program planning and management policies and procedures of the organization using systems that will improve the overall operation and effectiveness of ADRA International; and provide advice on any contracts into which the agency may enter related to programs and projects.

Relationships to External Stakeholders.

This position serves as the primary liaison and facilitator for the agency’s portfolio of programs and projects in connection with governments, public and private organizations, donors, and media; striving to ensure the effective positioning of the agency and its programs; representing the agency to organizations that have strategic value to the agency's mission and encouraging appropriate opportunities for such representation by agency staff; taking progressive steps to seek, acquire, and sustain government and private funding; overseeing the agency's development, performance, and regulatory compliance for programs funded by government grants, cooperative agreements, procurement contracts, and private donations, including ensuring that the agency operates within all applicable laws and regulations and policies, limiting risks and exposure to the agency.

Qualifications for Consideration for the Position

• A practicing member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in good standing
• An advanced degree in the field of international development or related field
• A minimum of eight years of experience in senior management in a non-profit environment
• Executive leadership experience in the field of international development and relief
• Demonstrated analytical abilities, wisdom in judgment, participatory decisiveness, and expertise in successful organizational and team dynamics
• General administrative skills and abilities, self-direction, articulate, written and verbal communication skills, and sound technical skills

Instructions

For consideration, nominations and applications must be received by May 15, 2013. All applicants must submit the required documents: a cover letter expressing interest and summarizing qualifications, a comprehensive resume or curriculum vitae, and three professional references along with their contact information to president@adra.org by the same date, May 15, 2013. Additional information, documentation, and interviews will be required of finalists only. Please be informed that no hard copies or documents will be returned.

The successful candidate will be contacted immediately upon selection. Please direct all inquiries to this same email address. No phone calls will be entertained.

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The Offshore Outsourcing of American Jobs: A Greater Threat Than Terrorism

By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

Global Research, February 17, 2013

Creators Syndicate and Global Research 18 April 2010

Is offshore outsourcing good or harmful for America? To convince Americans of outsourcing’s benefits, corporate outsourcers sponsor misleading one-sided “studies.”

Only a small handful of people have looked objectively at the issue. These few and the large number of Americans whose careers have been destroyed by outsourcing have a different view of outsourcing’s impact. But so far there has been no debate, just a shouting down of skeptics as “protectionists.”

Now comes an important new book, Outsourcing America, published by the American Management Association. The authors, two brothers, Ron and Anil Hira, are experts on the subject. One is a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and the other is professor at Simon Fraser University.

The authors note that despite the enormity of the stakes for all Americans, a state of denial exists among policymakers and outsourcing’s corporate champions about the adverse effects on the US. The Hira brothers succeed in their task of interjecting harsh reality where delusion has ruled.

In what might be an underestimate, a University of California study concludes that 14 million white-collar jobs are vulnerable to being outsourced offshore. These are not only call-center operators, customer service and back-office jobs, but also information technology, accounting, architecture, advanced engineering design, news reporting, stock analysis, and medical and legal services. The authors note that these are the jobs of the American Dream, the jobs of upward mobility that generate the bulk of the tax revenues that fund our education, health, infrastructure, and social security systems.

The loss of these jobs “is fool’s gold for companies.” Corporate America’s short-term mentality, stemming from bonuses tied to quarterly results, is causing US companies to lose not only their best employees-their human capital-but also the consumers who buy their products. Employees displaced by foreigners and left unemployed or in lower paid work have a reduced presence in the consumer market. They provide fewer retirement savings for new investment.

Nothink economists assume that new, better jobs are on the way for displaced Americans, but no economists can identify these jobs. The authors point out that “the track record for the re-employment of displaced US workers is abysmal: “The Department of Labor reports that more than one in three workers who are displaced remains unemployed, and many of those who are lucky enough to find jobs take major pay cuts. Many former manufacturing workers who were displaced a decade ago because of manufacturing that went offshore took training courses and found jobs in the information technology sector. They are now facing the unenviable situation of having their second career disappear overseas.”

American economists are so inattentive to outsourcing’s perils that they fail to realize that the same incentive that leads to the outsourcing of one tradable good or service holds for all tradable goods and services. In the 21st century the US economy has only been able to create jobs in nontradable domestic services-the hallmark of a third world labor force.

Prior to the advent of offshore outsourcing, US employees were shielded against low wage foreign labor. Americans worked with more capital and better technology, and their higher productivity protected their higher wages.

Outsourcing forces Americans to “compete head-to-head with foreign workers” by “undermining US workers’ primary competitive advantage over foreign workers: their physical presence in the US” and “by providing those overseas workers with the same technologies.”

The result is a lose-lose situation for American employees, American businesses, and the American government. Outsourcing has brought about record unemployment in engineering fields and a major drop in university enrollments in technical and scientific disciplines. Even many of the remaining jobs are being filled by lower paid foreigners brought in on H-1b and L-1 visas. American employees are discharged after being forced to train their foreign replacements.

US corporations justify their offshore operations as essential to gain a foothold in emerging Asian markets. The Hira brothers believe this is self-delusion. “There is no evidence that they will be able to outcompete local Chinese and Indian companies, who are very rapidly assimilating the technology and know-how from the local US plants. In fact, studies show that Indian IT companies have been consistently outcompeting their US counterparts, even in US markets. Thus, it is time for CEOs to start thinking about whether they are fine with their own jobs being outsourced as well.”

The authors note that the national security implications of outsourcing “have been largely ignored.”

Outsourcing is rapidly eroding America’s superpower status. Beginning in 2002 the US began running trade deficits in advanced technology products with Asia, Mexico and Ireland. As these countries are not leaders in advanced technology, the deficits obviously stem from US offshore manufacturing. In effect, the US is giving away its technology, which is rapidly being captured, while US firms reduce themselves to a brand name with a sales force.

In an appendix, the authors provide a devastating expose of the three “studies” that have been used to silence doubts about offshore outsourcing-the Global Insight study (March 2004) for the Information Technology Association of America, the Catherine Mann study (December 2003) for the Institute for International Economics, and the McKinsey Global Institute study (August 2003).

The ITAA is a lobbying group for outsourcing. The ITAA spun the results of the study by releasing only the executive summary to reporters who agreed not to seek outside opinion prior to writing their stories.

Mann’s study is “an unreasonably optimistic forecast based on faulty logic and a poor understanding of technology and strategy.”

The McKinsey report “should be viewed as a self-interested lobbying document that presents an unrealistically optimistic estimate of the impact of offshore outsourcing and an undeveloped and politically unviable solution to the problems they identify.”

Outsourcing America is a powerful work. Only fools will continue clinging to the premise that outsourcing is good for America.

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. His latest book, “How The Economy Was Lost,” has just been published by CounterPunch/AK Press.

To find out more about Paul Craig Roberts, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate web page at www.creators.com .

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EEOC Settles Seventh Day Adventist Religious Discrimination Suit

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Experts say religious discrimination claims in the workplace are expected to be a growing problem for employers.

By Judy Greenwald
Published: January 2, 2013

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A Birmingham, Alabama-based manufacturing company has agreed to pay $25,000 to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for allegedly refusing to hire a Seventh Day Adventist, the agency said.

The EEOC said late last month that when James Wright applied for employment with Altec Industries Inc.'s Burnsville, North Carolina, manufacturing facility, he said that as a Seventh Day Adventist, he could not work on his Sabbath, which runs from sundown Friday until sundown Saturday. The EEOC charged in its complaint that Altec decided not to hire him as a result, which it said violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

In addition to paying the $25,000, under terms of the settlement, Altec also agreed to provide annual training on religious discrimination to all of its managers and supervisors at its Burnsville facility, among other actions.

Lynette A. Barnes, regional attorney for the EEOC's Charlotte, North Carolina, district office said in a statement: "An employer cannot refuse to hire an applicant to avoid making a religious accommodation.

"Where there is a conflict between a religious belief and work rules, the law mandates that employers make a sincere effort to accommodate those beliefs, including at the application stage. We are pleased that the settlement with Altec provides injunctive relief that will benefit all the company's employees and future applicants."

A spokesman for Altec, which provides products and services to the electric utility, telecommunications and contractor markets, could not immediately be reached for comment.

Experts say religious discrimination claims in the workplace are expected to be a growing problem for employers.

Judy Greenwald writes for Business Insurance, a sister publication of Workforce Management. Comment below or email editors@workforce.com.

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