Google: Another update, Pando shows that Google joined a cartel forcing down IT workers wages

According to Pando Daily, Google, Apple  and a host of other companies got together, and made a list of companies that wouldn't call each other for tech workers.  How nice.  There is even (email) evidence of at least 1 recruiter who lost his job for being overly aggressive in, umm, recruiting, at a company he wasn't supposed to touch, but wasn't told until, well, he might've got the hint at the same time he was walked out.

The whole list (from Pando again) is:

 • Apple, Inc
• Comcast Corporation
• DoubleClick
• Genentech
• IBM Corporation (Junior hires okay—also applies to subsidiaries)
• Illumita
• Intel Corporation
• Intuit
• Microsoft
• Oglivy
• WPP 

And might have gotten as far as a million workers.  There's an antitrust lawsuit in the works, scheduled for May, but things are settling out of court.  Seeing as some of this is serious, of course there are out of court settlements.