Sunday, April 22, 2012

The Philippines calling

The next time you call customer service, you may not be being transferred to India or the Philippines. You may be calling right here at home and getting some foreign national who has been brought here and taught English, just so they can take another job. Hope and change working for you once again America.

 

 

USAID training foreign workers for English-speaking jobs


While the president has been urging “insourcing,” the government has been sending money to the Philippines to train foreign workers for jobs in English-speaking call centers.
According to New York Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop and North Carolina Republican Rep. Walter Jones, this is unacceptable and “shocking.”
The pair are calling on the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to immediately suspend what is known as the Job Enabling English Proficiency (JEEP) program.
According to Jones’ office, in 2010, after the two men compelled USAID to end a similar training program in Sri Lanka, the agency assured the congressmen that they would “conduct a review to ensure the project will not take any jobs away from Americans.”


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