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posted Friday, 17 March 2006
Exporting America's Future -
The Trouble With OUTSOURCING:
It Won't Go Away,
It Just Grows Bigger -RI10
Outsourcing Report: Exporting America's Future - The Trouble With Outsourcing
Economists, politicians and corporate consultants keep assuring us that the current trend towards outsourcing American jobs abroad is ultimately good for everyone and for the global economy. But what if you are the one that has lost your job to cheaper labor in another country? The second episode of The Outsourcing Report: Exporting America's Future presents critical views on the global job shift. Hosted by political satirist and PBS host Will Durst, the series tells personal stories of workers whose manufacturing and high tech jobs have been outsourced.
Transcribed and Edited by Tabacco:
Researchers project that between 3,000,000-6,000,000 jobs could move overseas in the next decade. What are we gonna do for a living!
The dominant view from corporate leaders, economists and politicians is that it will all work out. But not everyone agrees; especially those on the receiving end of OUTSOURCING.
Tabacco does NOT agree!
Robert Reich, Former Secretary of Labor:
Global capital is going to do whatever it can do most cheaply anywhere around the world.
Charles Kernaghan, National Labor Committee:
It’s not raising standards, as they promised us, it’s slashing standards all across the world.
Shirley Turner, New Jersey State Senator:
The Blue Collar jobs are gone; now they’re working on the so-called White Collar jobs, and the Middleclass is being squeezed right out of existence.
Narrator:
This story is about some of the industries that have been hit the hardest by outsourcing and the workers, who have felt that loss. Think of it as a wakeup call where the people, who are worried, will be the loudest voices in your ear.
When I was growing up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, people in my neighborhood used to make things. And the companies that employed people, like my dad, used to make money by making things in America. Not anymore!
First, they closed the steel mills and exported those jobs to Japan, then Korea. Then they told us that we could retrain for the new high-tech manufacturing that would grow our economy. Well, that didn’t last long.
In 1992, NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, was signed, and those jobs were shipped to Mexico.
Information technology was supposed to provide the next employment boom, but that work can now be done cheaper in India.
The next retraining drive was in medical technology. But many of those jobs are being done offshore too. Guess where your radiology report is now being read!
Tim Costello, Labor Analyst:
The idea that somehow the lowest skilled jobs will be replaced by higher skilled jobs just no longer holds.
Robert Reich:
People, who have a lot of skills and college education and good connections, benefited enormously by globalization. But then there is a very large and different group of people, who no longer have manufacturing jobs, who no longer have Middleclass jobs, who are losing their way in the economy.
Graphic: 57% of displaced workers can’t find another job that pays as much. Learn more about how outsourcing impacts wages. Click on “MORE INFO” at www.linktv.org/outsourcing
A recent study projects that by 2015, 259,000 management positions will be moved offshore.
Tim Costello:
Your mother told you to get a high-tech degree or ten years ago you’d be safe, that was the wave of the future. Now, all of a sudden, there is tremendous insecurity in that particular labor market.
Graphic: what kinds of jobs are at risk of being outsourced? Click on “MORE INFO” at www.linktv.org/outsourcing
Tabacco: Some companies even add insult to injury by requiring the person, whose job is being outsourced, to train his or her own replacement. I again ask, “How will outsourcing grow jobs in America? What technical, administrative or information-based job is safe from outsourcing? If you serve customers at McDonald’s or Burger King, your “career” is pretty safe – they haven’t learned how to wait on people in New York City from New Delhi, India – YET!
Graphic: In 2005, more than 100,000 information technology jobs moved offshore. – Washington Alliance of Technology Workers
Narrator:
Economists, politicians and corporate consultants all tell us that outsourcing is ultimately good for everybody. It’s the “Raise all the boats theory”. If we spread jobs around the world, everyone will ultimately benefit.
Some workers in India say outsourcing is bringing new growth to their economy. But other offshore workers face miserable working conditions.
Graphic: Learn more about wages around the world. Click on “MORE INFO” at www.linktv.org/outsourcing
Charles Kernaghan:
The American worker is now pitted against desperately poor people in the developing world in a race to the bottom, competing over who’ll accept the lowest wages, the least benefits, the most miserable living and working conditions.
Ben, a database administrator with family in Pleasanton, California, whose job was outsourced to India and was required to train his own replacement:
What can you retrain for that can’t be outsourced? Then you’re going to start at the bottom and work your way up. And I’m almost 50-years old. There’s a lot of people, who’ve faced this thing over the years. I can’t blame people for wanting a better life. But I blame our politicians for taking ours away. It doesn’t matter whether Republicans or Democrats, they’re all doing the same thing. And we have no one to turn to. The thing that irks me the most is ‘Why is their American dream more important than mine?’
T.A.B.A.C.C.O. (Truth About Business And Congressional Crimes Organization)
The Trouble With OUTSOURCING:
It Won't Go Away,
It Just Grows Bigger -RI10
Outsourcing Report: Exporting America's Future - The Trouble With Outsourcing
Economists, politicians and corporate consultants keep assuring us that the current trend towards outsourcing American jobs abroad is ultimately good for everyone and for the global economy. But what if you are the one that has lost your job to cheaper labor in another country? The second episode of The Outsourcing Report: Exporting America's Future presents critical views on the global job shift. Hosted by political satirist and PBS host Will Durst, the series tells personal stories of workers whose manufacturing and high tech jobs have been outsourced.
Transcribed and Edited by Tabacco:
Researchers project that between 3,000,000-6,000,000 jobs could move overseas in the next decade. What are we gonna do for a living!
The dominant view from corporate leaders, economists and politicians is that it will all work out. But not everyone agrees; especially those on the receiving end of OUTSOURCING.
Tabacco does NOT agree!
Robert Reich, Former Secretary of Labor:
Global capital is going to do whatever it can do most cheaply anywhere around the world.
Charles Kernaghan, National Labor Committee:
It’s not raising standards, as they promised us, it’s slashing standards all across the world.
Shirley Turner, New Jersey State Senator:
The Blue Collar jobs are gone; now they’re working on the so-called White Collar jobs, and the Middleclass is being squeezed right out of existence.
Narrator:
This story is about some of the industries that have been hit the hardest by outsourcing and the workers, who have felt that loss. Think of it as a wakeup call where the people, who are worried, will be the loudest voices in your ear.
When I was growing up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, people in my neighborhood used to make things. And the companies that employed people, like my dad, used to make money by making things in America. Not anymore!
First, they closed the steel mills and exported those jobs to Japan, then Korea. Then they told us that we could retrain for the new high-tech manufacturing that would grow our economy. Well, that didn’t last long.
In 1992, NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, was signed, and those jobs were shipped to Mexico.
Information technology was supposed to provide the next employment boom, but that work can now be done cheaper in India.
The next retraining drive was in medical technology. But many of those jobs are being done offshore too. Guess where your radiology report is now being read!
Tim Costello, Labor Analyst:
The idea that somehow the lowest skilled jobs will be replaced by higher skilled jobs just no longer holds.
Robert Reich:
People, who have a lot of skills and college education and good connections, benefited enormously by globalization. But then there is a very large and different group of people, who no longer have manufacturing jobs, who no longer have Middleclass jobs, who are losing their way in the economy.
Graphic: 57% of displaced workers can’t find another job that pays as much. Learn more about how outsourcing impacts wages. Click on “MORE INFO” at www.linktv.org/outsourcing
A recent study projects that by 2015, 259,000 management positions will be moved offshore.
Tim Costello:
Your mother told you to get a high-tech degree or ten years ago you’d be safe, that was the wave of the future. Now, all of a sudden, there is tremendous insecurity in that particular labor market.
Graphic: what kinds of jobs are at risk of being outsourced? Click on “MORE INFO” at www.linktv.org/outsourcing
Tabacco: Some companies even add insult to injury by requiring the person, whose job is being outsourced, to train his or her own replacement. I again ask, “How will outsourcing grow jobs in America? What technical, administrative or information-based job is safe from outsourcing? If you serve customers at McDonald’s or Burger King, your “career” is pretty safe – they haven’t learned how to wait on people in New York City from New Delhi, India – YET!
Graphic: In 2005, more than 100,000 information technology jobs moved offshore. – Washington Alliance of Technology Workers
Narrator:
Economists, politicians and corporate consultants all tell us that outsourcing is ultimately good for everybody. It’s the “Raise all the boats theory”. If we spread jobs around the world, everyone will ultimately benefit.
Some workers in India say outsourcing is bringing new growth to their economy. But other offshore workers face miserable working conditions.
Graphic: Learn more about wages around the world. Click on “MORE INFO” at www.linktv.org/outsourcing
Charles Kernaghan:
The American worker is now pitted against desperately poor people in the developing world in a race to the bottom, competing over who’ll accept the lowest wages, the least benefits, the most miserable living and working conditions.
Ben, a database administrator with family in Pleasanton, California, whose job was outsourced to India and was required to train his own replacement:
What can you retrain for that can’t be outsourced? Then you’re going to start at the bottom and work your way up. And I’m almost 50-years old. There’s a lot of people, who’ve faced this thing over the years. I can’t blame people for wanting a better life. But I blame our politicians for taking ours away. It doesn’t matter whether Republicans or Democrats, they’re all doing the same thing. And we have no one to turn to. The thing that irks me the most is ‘Why is their American dream more important than mine?’
T.A.B.A.C.C.O. (Truth About Business And Congressional Crimes Organization)
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