Practice what you preach (2)

Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has been "outed" by the CBC for firing about 45 skilled employees and replacing them with workers brought in from abroad.  Adding insult to injury, the firees are required to train their replacements before heading off to join the unemployment line.  There's some dispute about the details, but that hasn't stopped other media outlets, including the Toronto Star, from joining in the criticism of Canada's largest bank.  Here's the take on the story from today's paper.

Wait up a second, though. Didn't the Star fire an almost exactly equal number of its own skilled workforce not so long ago, also as part of an outsourcing initiative?   Indeed it did, and I wrote about it in a posting on this blog back on March 5.  Ah, you'll say, but that's different -- those jobs were outsourced to other Canadian workers.  The Star would never dream of giving jobs to foreign workers just to save a few bucks, would it?

Well, today we received our copy of the new Toronto Star cookbook.  Printed in China.