Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Big Business Betrayal

The US Chamber of Commerce won the backstabber award again by publishing an open letter targeted at Republicans in the House of Representatives intended to increase pressure for immigration "reform". Although signed by "636 business organizations" a quick scan for tell-tale words like "Association", "Council", "Institute" or most amusingly "Chamber of Commerce" revealed only about 40% of the signatories were actual for-profit corporations. I'm sure most Americans really don't want immigration policy coming from the California Fig Advisory Board.
But what about the actual companies that signed on to help push down American workers wages? Well the next time you are shopping you might want to remember who your friends aren't.

Amway
Apple Inc.
AT&T
Cargill, Inc.
Caterpillar Inc.
Citi
Darigold, Inc. - WA
Deere & Company - IL
Deloitte LLP
DHL
Emerson
Facebook
General Electric Company
Google
Halliburton
Hewlett-Packard Company
Hilton Worldwide
Hormel Foods Corporation
IBM Corporation
Ingersoll Rand
Intel
Land O'Lakes, Inc.
Marriott International, Inc.
McDonald’s Corporation
Microsoft Corporation
Overstock.com, Inc.
Qualcomm, Inc.
RockThePost - NY
Sunmaid Growers of California - CA
Symantec Corporation
Texas Instruments Incorporated

This list is purely my own subset of the signatories created by selecting companies I recognized. I wonder how Facebook feels about being on the same list as Halliburton.