, > At a time when unemployment is high in the US, Boeing was bringing in outside engineers because they could save a few bucks and pay them less.
Is that all you think about when you see foreign engineers coming here to America on temporary assignments? They're just "cheap" replacements that contribute to American unemployment?
No. But I do know how Boeing thinks. They try to cut corners anyway they can whether its legal or not legal. In the past ten years, Boeing has been busted several times for illegal practices where they were trying to save money.
First of all, it is NOT cheap to bring foreign engineers here, even temporarily. You have to pay their whole way here, including international flights, hotels, meals, and transportation. You also have to deal with customs, immigration, and Homeland Security, especially since you mentioned these engineers were RUSSIAN. Boeing is also a major defense contractor, so that's going to put them under intense scrutiny whenever Russians comes over to do stuff.
There are many unemployed engineers in Russia.........the Russian aerospace industry cratered after the fall of the Soviet Union......and has never recovered. Given the much lower cost of living in Russia, these engineers are more than willing to work for wages Americans would consider dirt cheap. Many of them have been working at jobs in Russia way beneath their educational levels for years now.
As for overhead, I doubt Boeing is paying them a lot.........I am sure they are dorming them on one of their plant sites. Knowing Boeing they are squeezing every penny out of them.
Secondly, foreign engineers usually bring a unique set of skills, expertise, and knowledge that just isn't available here no matter how hard you search. Companies benefit tremendously when they bring in a vast, diverse, global set of skills and resources to any project. This isn't like Foxconn where they crack the whip so that factory engineers can crank out iPhones faster. These foreign engineers are often highly qualified, intelligent, and very valuable.
I never said the engineers were not skilled. However, we have foreign, even Russian engineers living here in Seattle and other parts of the US. They don't need to go to Russia to get a foreign perspective.
And third, your statement is typical of the liberal entitlement mentality. If all you care about is domestic employment rates, how about you help out by educating the next generation of engineers so that they can better compete in a global market? Otherwise, corporations are going to turn to foreign workers not only to do their Foxconn assembly stuff, but also to develop the next iPad, the next Facebook, the next jumbo jet, even the next alternative energy vehicle.
I have no idea what you think you are saying here but frankly, I do see an attempt to politicize what is not a political issue. I intend to ignore the effort. Sorry. |
