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Chrysler Shifting Jobs to China – CEO Denies
The chief executive of U.S.-based automaker Chrysler says his company is not shifting production of Jeep vehicles to China. His comments follow a series of statements by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s campaign that appear to suggest otherwise. Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne said in an email to employees Tuesday that Jeep assembly lines will remain … Continue reading
US – 14 million white-collar jobs are vulnerable to being outsourced offshore
Is offshore outsourcing good or harmful for America? To convince Americans of outsourcing’s benefits, corporate outsourcers sponsor misleading one-sided “studies.” Only a small handful of people have looked objectively at the issue. These few and the large number of Americans whose careers have been destroyed by outsourcing have a different view of outsourcing’s impact. But so … Continue reading
Australia – The outsourcing of jobs at new hospital
It’s a job that has been described as a back room service and one that the State Government is privatising in new hospitals.” But, it’s not just cleaners. All non-clinical staff at the new Fiona Stanley Hospital, including sterilisation technicians, orderlies, patient care assistants, administration and IT staff, will be privately employed by management company … Continue reading
Outsourcing in India – US plans to stop it
The Obama Administration has announced setting up of an institute for manufacturing innovations which will help prevent jobs going to India and China. “This institute will help make sure that manufacturing jobs of tomorrow take root not in places like China or India, but right here in the United States of America,” US President Barack … Continue reading
India – Infosys pays less than in US for the same job
The trial in the alleged visa fraud case against software services major Infosys in the US has been postponed by almost a month to September 17. The trial related to visa fraud allegations levelled by Infosys’ former employee Jack Palmer was scheduled to start on August 20 in the US court. According to sources, it … Continue reading
US – 83% Negatively View Corporations that Outsource to China
U.S. voters across the political spectrum overwhelming have negative views of companies that outsource jobs to China and strongly support Buy America provisions, according to a poll released today by the Alliance for American Manufacturing. Voters also say strengthening manufacturing in the United States is a top economic priority and they back the creation of … Continue reading
Obama Jobs Council – A Lot of Outsourcers
During the past two weeks, President Barack Obama’s campaign has blasted Republican challenger Mitt Romney as an “outsourcer,” focusing on his career with private equity firm Bain Capital. The Romney campaign hit back on Tuesday, claiming Obama’s stimulus package failed to protect American workers and helped create jobs overseas. If Romney really wanted a juicy … Continue reading
GM beginning to reverse IT services outsourcing
GM now outsources about 90 percent of its IT services and provides 10 percent of that work in-house. Within the next three to five years, GM hopes to reverse those percentages in part by hiring “thousands” of new software developers, database experts and others globally, GM spokeswoman Juli Huston-Rough said. The IT overhaul is spearheaded … Continue reading
Does Xerox’s outsourcing also mean layoffs ?
About a year ago, Xerox told some 600 employees, many of them engineers, that their jobs were being transferred to an India-based IT services firm. How has that worked out? Neither company is disclosing detail about what’s been going on, but information is leaking out about some layoffs. The move by Xerox goes to the … Continue reading
Outsourcing comes with a wage penalty, at least in some occupations
“Outsourcing of labor services grew substantially during the 1980s and 1990s and was associated with lower wages, fewer benefits, and lower rates of unionization” write Arindrajit Dube and Ethan Kaplan in Does Outsourcing Reduce Wages in the LowWage Service Occupations? Evidence from Janitors and Guards on digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu The authors focus on two occupations for which they can identify outsourcing in … Continue reading
Outsourcing: What’s the impact?
…The debate over outsourcing has been morphing, and today there are growing numbers of people who think that what started as a sensible, globalized extension of sending some work outside a firm to specialized companies may in fact be creating long-term structural unemployment in the United States, hollowing out entire industries. Rearranging where and how … Continue reading
Romney: a proponent of outsourcing jobs?
A conveniently timed piece on Mitt Romney in The Washington Post has given Democrats a big chance to label him as a proponent of outsourcing jobs, a line of attack that brings together the economy, a little-known career at a private-equity firm, and China. The thrust of the Post’s reporting is that while Romney ran … Continue reading
British Airways airport jobs could be transferred
Hundreds of British Airways workers at Gatwick Airport are set to lose their jobs or be transferred to another company under cost-saving plans unveiled by the airline today. The carrier said 400 ramp workers, including baggage handlers, will see their jobs outsourced, while 170 customer service staff and management support employees will be laid off … Continue reading
IBM Layoffs Exceed 800, Workers Say – Services – Outsourcing – Informationweek
IBM has laid off more than 800 workers at locations across the U.S. in the past 24 hours, according to company sources and documents obtained by InformationWeek. Many of the cuts appear to target the company’s Global Technology Services outsourcing group. Some 183 workers were laid off in the GTS application hosting unit, 179 were … Continue reading
Most jobs are not lost, they merely end up elsewhere
The structure of the economy – as represented by the relative sizes of the various industry sectors – is always changing. Normally the rate of change is so slow we don’t notice it. At present, however, the pace of change is much quicker than usual. These pressures are coming from outside Australia. Many are the … Continue reading
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