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November 26, 2003

More takes on outsourcing

With 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.

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Posted by Brian Chin at November 26, 2003 07:59 PM
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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.
National attention is being drawn to this issue and from what recent media coverage has said, "it will be this issue that will decide the next president and not war or outsourcing". It will be a systematic description of the abuse of the primary tracking and control of persons visiting the United States and how that is a primary reason why we are no safer than we were on Sept. 10 2001. How a few special interests took control of the highest levels of government for their own profit by throwing millions and millions of American citizens onto unemployment and financial ruin while the very jobs that they lost were being happily filled right in their own country by cheap foreign labor under the treasonously abused visa and immigration system.
It is this battle that we were forced to face more than three years ago and We welcome Washtech and Your support on covering this and other issues that directly effect the real working people of this community.


Posted by: Terry and Mickey Morgan at November 30, 2003 02:26 PM
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