OffShoring News
Updated 1/19/07

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Offshoring in General:

• Need Help At Newsday? Call India

• Union shares doubts about FSSA overhaul. Members ask lawmakers to intervene in Daniels’ $1B privatization plan.

• Philippines remains as major labor supplier to Fortune 500 firms

• Data Center Jobs At Risk. Outsourcing Under Consideration At The Hartford

• A High-Tech Worker's Guide to Globalization's Myths

• Outsourcing High-Tech Jobs: Why benign neglect isn't working.

• Economic Policy Institute: EPI Issue Guide to Offshoring

• Offshore Outsourcing: As approved by the IEEE-USA Board of Directors March 2004

• Study: States doing plenty of offshoring

• U.S. CEOs Who Outsource Get Bigger Pay Hike-Survey

• R.I.P. - The American Call Center?

• Can you say 'offshore' anymore? Euphemism is alive and well again when it comes to axing jobs in America.

• IBM Executive Sees Upside to Offshoring for US Workers

• Tennessee first US state to enact anti-outsourcing law.

• Enter union, in call centres.

• New Jersey Governor Signs Executive Order Protecting New Jersey Jobs

• Rescue American Jobs - The Most Important Issue of Our Lifetime

• Impact of Outsourcing on Development
Restoring Global Balance Together - by CWA Executive Vice President Larry Cohen

• Face-Off - Do offshoring's benefits outweigh its drawbacks?

• Offshoring: It's Not Too Late to Change

• Export of U.S. Jobs Seen Up - Report

• Letter to Australia IGS General Manager from employees being offshored.

• Demonstration at IBM La Gaude Site employees worried for their jobs.

• Outsourcing: The next technology battlefields

• Workers take on foreign outsourcing
• Beyond Lost Jobs...Press Release from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
• Heading offshore: Shipping out business services and technology work is a fast-growing and controversial economic trend
• Five Corporate Myths About Outsourcing.
• Bill targets firms that move jobs out of N.Y. Legislation would withhold fiscal aid.
• How to Prevent Offshoring From Taking Your Job - Advice by Howard Adamsky, Computerworld
• "Show Us The Jobs" bus tour and Rochester MN Bus Stop Events
• Talks will focus on offshoring controversy
• Amended offshoring measure rejected. State panel kills bill discouraging practice.
• Washington Could Be First State to Ban Offshoring. Lawmakers Debate Price vs. Cost to the State.
• Nation's Job Cuts Top 100,000 in January - Report
• New law limits offshoring of A-76 work - By Wilson P. Dizard III, GCN Staff
• The Blue Collar Workers of the 21st century - by Jeff Horwich, Minnesota Public Radio
• Thick as a (Campaign) Plank U.S. leaders either don't understand or prefer not to understand the IT Outsourcing Crisis, so here's the Cliff Notes version
• Offshoring controversy takes hold in Vermont.
• U.S. jobs jumping ship. Cheap overseas labor is not just for manufacturers any more -- is your job headed offshore too?
• Offshoring event lures execs, protesters.
• Outsourcing entices more corporations - Demonstrator: 'Will Code for Food'.
• Offshoring--a hot 2004 campaign issue? - Union activists are planning to inject the controversial topic of overseas outsourcing of technology jobs into the 2004 presidential race.
• No safety net for programmers - also a link to the lawfirm that is filing class action suits against US Dept. of Labor and the US dept. of Justice.
• Offshoring backlash rising - At both state and national levels, politicians are rushing to introduce anti-offshoring laws.
• WSJ reveals documents on IBM offshoring plans
• Read the transcript of Bill Moyers' show on Offshoring
• WA State Government Ships IT Work Offshore - IBM helps spearhead state's outsourcing efforts
• Skilled Workers Mount Opposition To Free Trade, Swaying Politicians
• Wired: Bidding Your Job Bon Voyage
• Washtech: Lawmakers seek fix on white-collar job visas
• Information Week: IT Workers Face Confidence Crisis Unemployment and outsourcing are creating a crisis of confidence among domestic tech professionals
• Information Week: Identity Crisis Technology workers mull the impact of offshore outsourcing and struggle to find a unified voice
• Computerworld: Study says IT worker unemployment at unprecedented levels
• Computerworld: IT's Global Itinerary: "Offshore Outsourcing Inevitable" By next year, 80% of CIOs will have marching orders to take some IT offshore - UNLESS WE FIGHT BACK!
• WA State Government Ships IT Work Offshore - IBM helps spearhead state's outsourcing efforts
• Third World Traveler - excerpt from the book "Sharing The Pie" by Steve Brouwer
• Unions help all workers, new study finds - a new report by the Economic Policy Institute.
• US H1-B visa ban to hit 65,000 Indians - Sept. 7th - Educated and highly-qualified Indians hoping to get cushy jobs in the United States, especially in that country's software sector, may have their dreams quashed if a legislation to ban the issue of H1-B visas is debated and passed as a law.
• The Great Depression - "The Sequel" Coming To Your Neighborhood Soon.
  July 30th - Interesting reading and advice from a former Corporate CEO Read Full Story
• Offshore Outsourcing: Keeping Your Plans Hush-Hush Can Hurt You
  July 30th -Read Full Story
• Where the Good Jobs Are Going?
  July 30th -Forget sweatshops. U.S. companies are now shifting high-wage work overseas, especially to India Read Full Story
• Globalization takes toll on techies.
  July 25th -It’s not just low-level jobs that are leaving U.S. shores. Read Full Story
• Outsourcing services put chip designers on edge.
  July 25th --The acceleration of overseas outsourcing of information technology services in recent years has some circuit designers worried about the security of their once-sheltered position. Read Full Story
• Cheap Labor at America's Expense...
  July 9th --As U.S. corporations outsource their information-technology operations to the lower-wage countries, American workers are left on the outside looking in. Read Full Story
• BOOM TIMES: Bangalore Engineers , India, work on US software projects.
  July 9th New York-- US companies have outsourced mundane data entry and programming to India for years. But increasingly, US firms are farming out much more sophisticated work to the world's second most populous nation, taking advantage of skilled accountants, market researchers, and medical technicians - even special-effects artists - who work for nickels on the dollar. Read Full Story
• Protest Grow as Tech Jobs Move Offshore
  June 27, NEW YORK -- A backlash is growing against one of the business world's hottest trends: moving a wide range of high-tech and service-sector jobs to developing countries. At the Waldorf-Astoria hotel Thursday, about 125 executives attended the 2003 Strategic Outsourcing Conference. Read Full Story

• June 29: Bush Administration assures India it is OK to steal your job The Indian government and businesses have won a major assurance from the Bush Administration on the issue of outsourcing. A senior US official has said Washington is against any attempt by state governments to legislate a ban on outsourcing on the lines of what is being considered in New Jersey and other states.

• Intel COO to visit Bangladore to explore opportunities
  Silicon India, June 13, 2003:In Bangalore, he will visit the new Intel India Development Centre campus. Last month, Karnataka approved an Intel plan to build the $41-million centre which will create 3,000 jobs. Read Full Story
  
• IT Services in India has high growth rate
  Silicon India, June 13, 2003: While worldwide IT Services growth has been 4% in 2003, the Indian IT Services sector has witnessed 17% growth.” Read Full Story
  
• India Wants Jobs Protected
  Seattle Times, June 14, 2003: India wants global trade rules to counter the backlash in the United States as Microsoft, Citigroup and other companies move computer programming, call center and other back-office jobs to India and other nations. Indian Commerce Minister Arun Jaitley said he raised recent restrictions by states such as New Jersey to the contracting of Indian companies in a meeting Thursday with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick. Those limitations, he said, need to be addressed in the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement being negotiated now... Read Full Story
  
• Britain could lose 200,000 jobs over next 10 years
  
• U.S. Government Opposes Legislation Against Outsourcing. SiliconIndia, June 13, 2003: Addressing a press conference here at the end of his two-day visit to Washington, Jaitley said: "We explained the sensitivities of India's concerns that public and political opinion in India regards it completely contrary to the spirit of market access. Therefore such a proposal does create an adverse environment when market access negotiations in various sectors are on. "The USTR was very appreciative of our stance and he told me that the federal government of the U.S. considers these proposals as 'bad policy'. The federal government opposes it and is trying to resist it." ... According to a study by management consulting firm A.T. Kearney, financial services companies are planning to move more than 500,000 jobs overseas in order to reduce operating costs by $30 billion annually. A recent report by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) said American companies had saved $16 billion due to outsourcing. Read Full Story

• Outcry Against Outsourcing Termed Politically-Motivated
  Deccan Herald, June 13, 2003: Industry leaders, government representatives and analysts unanimously pointed out that the proposed curbs by the US against outsourcing were “politically motivated” and the outcry would die down as soon as the economy bounced back. They also criticised the media for focussing excessively on job losses in the US due to outsourcing from India and failed to highlight the advantages for the US economy. ... The hue and cry on backlash was “much ado about nothing,” said Mr Kevin M Campbell, President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Exult, a US-based BPO firm. There was nothing for India to fear about the concerns of loss in job expressed back in the US, he added. Read Full Story
  
• Who's afraid of IndianITES?
  The Times of India, June 8, 2003: "In the beginning they were just code coolies and call centre Charlies. Dour drudges who wrote millions of lines of code for slave wages; and distant drones who answered (in thick Indian accents) basic questions about billing and ticketing in the (American) afterhours. For a while, it had looked perfect — a low-cost, 24/7 work cycle, freeing American workers to do more important stuff. Then, as the never-ending economic downturn spiralled, it began to hurt. More so, when unemployment passed 6 per cent, putting some nine million Americans out of work" ... Read Full Story
  
• Prudential Insurance to shift 1,000 jobs to India
  The Economic Times (of India): Despite increasing discontent in US and Britain over outsourcing to India, British insurance company Prudential plans to shift a third of its remaining 3,000 customer-service jobs to Mumbai and save an estimated £16 million a year, a report said on Wednesday. Prudential selected Mumbai over rival locations in east Europe, Asia and Ireland because of lower hiring costs but, as also because "the infrastructure and potential for savings and productivity gains made India a winner”, said Philip Broadley, the company's finance director. The move comes as British Communication Workers' Union issued a warning this week of strikes against BT, the telecommunications giant, over its Indian plans Read Full Story
  
• BT attacked over call centre plans
  BBC News, June 2, 2003: The Communication Workers Union (CWU) described the proposals as "catastrophic" for the areas in the UK where call centres are based. BT said no permanent employees would lose their jobs as a result of work being transferred to India. The CWU said that as many as 200,000 UK call centre jobs could be lost across the industry over the next five to 10 years. ... The CWU accused the telecoms company of paying Indian workers just 80p an hour, compared with £6 an hour for call centre workers in the UK. Read full story
  
• Americans turn to Net to protest outsourcing
  June 13, 2003: "We are not racists, xenophobes or bigots. We are displaced American workers. Displaced by a little known immigration visa, approved by the Congress at the request of large US corporations.” If you think this is a 70s’ trade union leader breathing fire and brimstone, think again. This is the voice of displaced American infotech professionals on the Internet. ... Read Full Story
  
• Washtech: Rep. Inslee says U.S. won’t stem outsourcing... tells AP, "These bills won't go anywhere"
  
• Newsday: Tech jobs disappearing in city, going overseas
  
• Lou Dobbs: "Stop Trading US Jobs Away"
  
• SF Chronicle: "More Silicon Valley companies find cheaper labor in other countries"
  
• High Tech Multi-nationals Head for India

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IBM Offshoring News

• IBM's German lab bucks outsourcing trend

•IBM Accelerates Hiring in India

• IBM ruffles workers by expanding India staff

• IBM UK mainframe workers train their South African replacements

• IBM Opens Fifth Software Center in India

• IBM to cut 100 more jobs

• IBM UK workers in the dark as firing crunch time hits

• Indiana utility shifting jobs to IBM

• IBM moves to promote offshoring
Restructuring at IBM will lead to more packaged offshore services

• WellPoint to shift 380 jobs to IBM

• Offshoring hits home. Worker tells story of IBM layoffs

• IBM Ireland employees jobs offshored to India

• 150 IBMers sold to GXS

• IBM workers call for shareholders to 'Offshore the CEO'

•IBM Employees Challenge Outsourcing, Retiree Issues at IBM Annual Meeting- April 27, 2004

• IBM meeting draws offshoring, health care protests

• IBM staff in offshore outsourcing protest

• Offshoring Legislation In Action

• Bush economic report praises 'outsourcing' jobs (What??)

• Bush report: Sending jobs overseas helps U.S. (Are they serious?)

• Proposed law targets offshoring

• As Tech jobs go offshore, Teamsters devise new strategies

• IBM buys leading Indian back office service firm

• IBM Employees Challenge Outsourcing, Retiree Issues at IBM Annual Meeting
• Big Worker Blues - It had been a rewarding 24-year IBM career for Craig Hench--until he got a curt note from his boss last June.
• IBM, Dell and HP under fire over 'Sweatshop' computer factories
• IBM lays off workers across nation; "Drive by" firings of 14 in region lose jobs - Craig Wolf, Poughkeepsie Journal
• IBM to hire 15,000 in 2004 - How many former IBMers will get called back? Alliance@IBM wants to know!
• Sprint May Outsource 5,000 Jobs to IBM - Is this how IBM will "hire" 15,000 workers in 2004?
• IBM Data Give Rare Look at Sensitive 'Offshoring' Plans - IBM expects to save $168 million annually starting in 2006 by shifting several thousand high-paying programming jobs overseas.
• More interest in IBM union
  Fears of job losses may fuel activism.
• IBM to send 80 jobs abroad - About 80 jobs at IBM Corp. in Poughkeepsie will be phased out this year as their work goes overseas in a consolidation of IBM's procurement systems.
• IBM jobs headed abroad - The plan to move programming jobs to India, China and elsewhere is bad news for RTP.
• Vermont Jobs Cited in China Issue - by Nancy Remsen
• IBM jobs headed abroad - The plan to move programming jobs to India, China and elsewhere is bad news for RTP.
• IBM may shift 3 million jobs overseas by 2015.
  July 25th -With amazing accuracy that we can only hope to expect from its programmers, India's Hindustan Times states, 'IBM plans to shift around three million service jobs to foreign countries, including India, by 2015, according to the New York Times. Read Full Story
• IBM explores shifting jobs out of U.S..
  July 25th -Several top IBM Corp. executives are discussing plans to move some U.S. positions to other countries with less expensive labor and infrastructure costs, according to officials at two organizations seeking to unionize IT workers. Read Full Story

June 29: Gerstner is still threatening your job - The Carlyle Group (of which Gerstner is now Chairman) increases its investment in high tech India by 30%.

The firm "is keen to acquire stakes in technology-related businesses providing IT-related services in tele-communication, financial services, medical services, education and other technology-driven sectors"

June 29:Biggest Investors in Asia

Carlyle Group - $ 250 million George Bush Sr. is an advisor to the Carlyle Group.

IBM - 2001 $ 25 million, $ 100 million more by 2004 - And you can't get your laptop replaced...

May 18, 2003: IBM will be moving IT, Software Developer and Research Jobs to India

CEO Sam Palmisano personally visits India but he wants no media attention - sounds like stealth offshoring to us. Palmisano is the first IBM CEO to visit India.

IBM to expand Software Development, Services and R&D in India

IBM India jobs to go up substantially in the near future

Steve Mills and Nick Donofrio visit India - Paul Horn, head of Research, will also visit. "IBM is moving strategic operations in the software business area"

• IBM Plans new Software Center in Hubli, India
  
• IBM plans "captive offshore processing center" for its backoffice operations. This facility has the potential to seat close to 1000 people.
• Alliance@IBM urges IBM workers to fight plan to move jobs offshore