Stop Offshoring
Saturday, November 22, 2003
Last week, the San Jose Mercury News published a series of articles regarding the offshoring trend. Here's one of them.
Caught in the pull of globalization:
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/7225976.htm
"While not every job created overseas is the result of a layoff in the United States, it's clear that demand for technical talent in India is taking off -- to the point that companies are recruiting in Silicon Valley for positions in India. About 40 tech companies did just that last week at a job fair in Santa Clara. About 750 job hunters attended, most of Indian origin, according to Karthik Sundaram, managing editor of siliconindia magazine, which organized the fair.
"Yet some American workers see a direct connection between the job boom overseas and their own unemployment.
"Humphries, for instance, said that she was let go after a lower-paid worker in India filled in for her during a 10-day vacation. She is now helping lead TechsUnite SV, a local group protesting the movement of U.S. jobs overseas...."
"Whether or not she was directly replaced by an Indian worker, Humphries embodies the worker angst now sweeping the tech workforce in the United States.
"'What Humphries represents -- having had to train her own successor -- that's like digging your own grave,' said Rep. Don Manzullo, R-Ill., chairman of the House Small Business Committee, who has proposed a new wave of 'Buy American' legislation to limit federal agencies from outsourcing government jobs overseas."
Note: I need to look into TechsUnite and the "Buy American" legislation.
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