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Brian Chin's Weblog surveys the Web to spot what people are talking about ...
November 26, 2003More takes on outsourcingWith recent announcements that Boeing and AT&T Wireless are both looking at sending jobs overseas -- to Japan and India, respectively -- the issue of offshore outsourcing is in the headlines again. Seattle Weekly looks at how the news is energizing local labor groups, and rattling the world-view of "elite," high-tech workers who once imagined that they were safe from such concerns. It's all part of a growing backlash against outsourcing -- which may be causing some employers to rethink the matter. News.com reports that the state of Indiana canceled a software contract with an Indian company in an explicit bid to protect local jobs. And Dell decided to stop sending support calls from corporate customers to a help desk operation in India after some customers complained, according to the Austin American-Statesman. Meanwhile, experts are noting that the actual savings of offshoring high-tech jobs may not be as great as advertised, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. There are other costs involved and, as an inevitable side effect of the demand, salaries in the Indian tech center of Bangalore are rising 20 to 25 percent a year. Category: MediasweepPosted by Brian Chin at November 26, 2003 07:59 PM Comments
I do how ever have to again question why the imminent issue of the widespread abuses of the H1-B, J-1, and L-1 visa systems by the same companies that are planning or are currently outsourcing business functions is still not talked about. I have had many conversations with Washtech on this issue and am not surprised that they are still shy of mentioning it in relation to outsourcing. They are still hoping to unionize the 2 to 3 million expired and illegally issued visa holders now taking jobs away from American citizens. As much as even Washtech would like the issue to go away with an improving economy, even they in recent months have started to understand and acknowledge the damage that has been done to over 3 million engineers by the concepts of "supply-side immigration" as practiced by every high-tech company in the U.S. over the last five years.
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