This page is dedicated to information related to the H-1B & L-1 Visa Programs and AT$T and corporate America's ongoing offshore outsourcing of American jobs. AT$T and corporate America have embarked on this course of action for one reason, CORPORATE GREED! The initial POP-UP Message contains five (5) items that describe the saga of AT$T's training of foreign nationals, offshoring of American jobs and its potential threat to America's Homeland Security. AT$T's training of foreign nationals commenced in January 2002 as an "AT$T Contingency Plan" in the event of a strike by CWA & IBEW union workers in May 2002. As you read the background information check to see if your Congressperson is a member of the congressional Caucus on India and Indian-Americans. If your Congressperson is listed, e-mail him/her to protest their offshoring of American jobs. Articles posted BELOW are listed in chronological order. Finally, before you leave our site, please register for CWA Local 4250 e-mail alerts! Fight Back: Steve Tisza, President CWA Local 4250

2.5 million Americans lost jobs last year and we'll lose more in 2009. Everybody is affected. The government's plan to create jobs could take years. But there are things we can do to put Americans back to work now. More than 11 million Americans are looking for work. Yet our government allows more than 1.5 million foreign workers a year to legally enter the U.S. for jobs. That doesn't include millions of illegal foreign workers. Download PDF flyer with more information about the Coalition For The Future American Worker (CFAW) and a link to their website.

The "Job Destruction Newsletter" is an email publication that is published several times a week by Rob Sanchez. It is free for everyone that signs up. Labor issues are analyzed in the context of nonimmigrant guest-worker visas, trade agreements, and offshoring. Emphasis is mainly on the plight of white-collar job issues, but attention is also paid to the plight of blue-collar workers because their issues about job loss and immigration are very similar. The newsletter is read by broad cross-section of people in several different nations. Rob Sanchez is a Senior Writing Fellow for Californians for Population Stabilization and author of the "Job Destruction Newsletter" Visit his site below, SIGN-UP for his Newsletter and make a contribution before you leave..

External link to Lou Dobbs webpage at CNN with links to past segments and ongoing nightly polls.

On Thursday morning, June 16, 2005, thanks to CWA District 4 Vice President Jeff Rechenbach, I was interviewed by talk-show host Ed "Flash" Ferenc to discuss my recent trip to India. Download MP3 file to listen to interview.

The largest caucus of its kind in the U. S. Congress. One of their objectives is to push India's economic agenda on the hill. Click on to check if your Congressperson is a member of the caucus. If Yes, WRITE and object to the H-1B Visa Program and OFFSHORE OUTSOURCING OF AMERICAN JOBS!

A new caucus called 'Friends of India' has been formed in the US Senate, similar to the 10-year-old Congressional Caucus on India and Indian Americans in the US House of Representatives. This is the first time in the history of the US Senate that a country-focused caucus has been constituted and announcing its formation was the driving force behind the move Senator John Cornyn, a Republican Senator from Texas who recently visited India. The co-chair of the caucus is Hillary Rodham-Clinton, Democrat from New York. External link to check if your U. S. Senator is a member of the caucus. If Yes, WRITE and object to the H-1B Visa Program and OFFSHORE OUTSOURCING OF AMERICAN JOBS!

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Norm Matloff, a computer science professor with a Chinese-born wife, says the U.S. skilled-immigrant visa system exploits workers everywhere. . "Matloff understands the guts of the issue in a way many academics don't," says B. Lindsay Lowell, director of policy studies at Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of International Migration. "He brings a lot of passion to the subject, which has its upsides and downsides. At times it can detract from his message." Lowell adds that "as a professor, I believe he may take the career options of his students seriously and believes, to some extent, that an oversupply of highly skilled immigrantsH-1Bs in particularis not in the interest of the domestic supply line." But Lowell says that like many researchers in this area, Matloff lacks definitive data on, for example, the proportion of older workers who are laid off and replaced by younger workers or H-1B visa holders. Anti-H-1B activists say they're worried less about academic research and more about shaping policy. "The thing that's missing in Norm Matloff's strategy is fighting for a seat at the table," says Donna Conroy, executive director of Bright Future Jobs, a lobbying group that advocates restricting the H-1B visa program. "We need a political movement that allows us to help craft legislation. All the numbers [Matloff] crunches won't have nearly the impact as American technical professionals standing up for themselves." Still, Matloff says he's ready to roll up his sleeves and get to work on H-1B visa reform: "If and when Congress wants to clean up this mess, I can tell them how to do it." Download entire Business Week article in PDF format.

The video made the front page of the Huffington Post and OpenLeft, and was seen by thousands - but it was so ridiculous that many couldn't believe it was really that easy to set up an offshore corporation to dodge taxes in Panama. Click below to see for yourself, then write your representative to convey your disbelief that some in the administration could be pushing for a leftover Bush NAFTA expansion deal with this country.

Here's some positive news regarding the long - term fight against H-1B Visa abuse. An investigative reporter, Lee Howard was recently recognized by the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists for his reporting on H-1B Visa abuse by Pfizer Corporation. He has given me permission to distribute this email (which includes the 4 part series) widely - and I hope that you will disseminate it. The more that is known about the H-1B Visa program by U.S. citizens, the better the odds are for the termination of this corrupt program. I sincerely hope that Lee receives additional recognition for his in-depth reporting. The Pulitzer Prize for Journalism is one award that comes to mind: http://www.pulitzer.org/files/entryforms/jentformnobutton.pdf Lee's email is l.howard@theday.com The Day' Newspaper's main phone number is: (860) 442-2200 Gene A. Nelson, Ph.D. Arlington, VA (214) 455 - 8065

"Leaders of two rival labor federations announced a framework for overhauling the U.S. immigration system that includes setting up an independent commission to assess how many immigrants should be admitted to fill temporary and permanent jobs without displacing U.S. workers. The new proposals are based on a report written by former Labor Secretary Ray Marshall in coordination with the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal think tank in Washington. On Thursday, April 16th, the institute will release a 68-page report by Mr. Marshall outlining more-detailed proposals." Download entire article and PRESS RELEASE from EPI regarding the 68-page report by Mr. Marshall NOTE: The 68 page report is NOT FREE, it will COST $9.95 and will be available for purchase on-line

In February, a TV ad campaign was run on Fox and CNN that was critical of the H-1B visa. It was sponsored by the Coalition for the Future American Worker (CFAW). Most of the funding for the campaign came from the Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) and the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). The video takes place in an elevator that gets very crowded with unemployed Americans who have been displaced by foreign labor. It's a hard hitting 30 second ad that is targeted at H-1B and other types of guest worker visas. On the CFAW website there is a list of supporters at the bottom of the page. ZaZona.com, which is the LLC for this newsletter and the JobDestruction website, is proud to be one of those supporters. Until recently, there were three labor unions that were listed as supporters: Steelworkers Union, AFL-CIO Department for Professional Employees (AFL-CIO DPE), and Communications Workers of America Local 4250 (CWALocal4250). Now there is only one: CWALocal4250. Download entire JobDestruction Newsletter #2004 By: Rob Sanchez, in PDF format.

The Businessweek article below casts a very warm glow on IBMs global mentoring program. IBM employees that receive the following email probably won't get to share the warm fuzzy feeling about mentoring the global village that was portrayed in that fluff article: http://www.endicottalliance.org/index.html from Senior DPE - Hartford Insurance Account "Starting next week several Hartford delivery teams will be working directly with fellow IBM team members from India to begin the second phase of our Global delivery solution planned for the Hartford account. The teams will be engaged in a multi-week effort to facilitate knowledge transfer to prepare for migration of specific work activities to global delivery counterparts later in 2009. Your continued support and leadership is critical to ensure our overall success and to ensure we continue to deliver high quality cost effective solutions that IBM committed to the Hartford. Please ensure you and your teams actively support this effort." Download JobDestruction Newsletter by Rob Sanchez in PDF format.

New American magazine interview of Robert Sanchez by Kurt Hyde. "Mr. Robert Sanchez is a critic of employment-based visas because foreign workers are displacing American workers. Mr. Sanchez is a computer engineer who was displaced from his job by a company-sponsored H-1B program. He now publishes a free online newsletter entitled The Job Destruction Newsletter, which he produces, edits, and e-mails regularly, usually daily." Download this excellent interview of Rob Sanchez in PDF format.

Three polls released last week by Rasmussen Reports reaffirm what true immigration reformers have known for years: the American public overwhelmingly supports enhanced border security and strengthened interior enforcement of our immigration laws. The results of these polls further undermine the arguments of amnesty advocates who claim that the American people want "comprehensive" immigration reform. Download complete article with links to the polls.

I want to share with you a letter written by Rep. Mike Michaud (D-ME) and signed by over 45 members of the House that will be sent to President Barack Obama pledging to work with him on a new direction for U.S. trade policy. Download letter in PDF format.

Many opponents of H-1B visas have correctly noted that the Sanders/Grassley amendment put in the Senate Stimulus Bill has a number of weakening provisions. But even those considerations pale in comparison to the core issue, which I believe is the historic, symbolic significance of the Sanders/Grassley amendment. For the first time since the establishment of the H-1B program in 1990, a house of Congress (the Senate here) has gone on record as characterizing H-1B to be a Bad Thing. The amendment puts H-1B on par with exorbitant salaries for CEOs who run their companies into the ground, and with the purchasing of cheap foreign steel. The amendment, which passed unanimously in a voice vote, would place certain restrictions on hiring of H-1Bs by financial institutions receiving TARP bailout money. Download entire article in PDF format.

"As anticipated, AILA, the American Immigration Lawyers Association is uniting with the open-borders U.S. Chamber of Commerce, US CofC, to attempt to strip the Sanders - Grassley limits on H-1B Visas found in Section 1610 of SA 730 (The Senate replacement for H.R. 1 Stimulus Bill) that passed a cloture vote by the narrowest of margins (61-36) yesterday in the U.S. Senate. In the post - vote coverage on CSPAN, one Senator let it slip that there were many phone calls yesterday regarding the proposal. Most calls opposed one or more provisions of the Senate Stimulus Bill. I have no doubt that both AILA and US CofC worked with other "open borders" groups to quietly strip E-Verify for all hired workers from the Senate version of the Stimulus Bill - another immigration provision in the Stimulus Bill that was not mentioned in this article that appears in the House version of the Stimulus." Summary by: Gene A. Nelson, Ph.D. Arlington, VA. Download article By Chris Strohm Congress Daily in PDF format.

"The U.S. House of Representatives in its Stimulus bill prohibited Stimulus jobs to illegal aliens by requiring use of E-Verify. But the Senate rejected this. That means that several hundred thousand unemployed Americans who would have gotten jobs will remain unemployed (based on current hiring patterns under current enforcement)." Download Blog by Roy Beck, NumbersUSA, in PDF format.

President Obama continues to surround himself with champions of free trade and open borders. Fortunately Tom Daschle was forced to withdraw -- and I say fortunately because he is a pivotal figure in the H-1B fiasco. I believe that's one of the reasons that Obama wanted him in the cabinet. Obama's cabinet and other government appointments are transforming the executive into a solid block of H-1B advocates who want to expand the program. Sen. Judd Gregg secretary of commerce is as bad as it gets. Obama might as well have appointed Bill Gates. Gregg gets a failing grade of F on guest worker visas from Americans for Better Immigration. Download Rob Sanchez JobDestruction Newsletter with links to many educational and informative articles.

"During the campaign, then-Senator Obama pledged to put American workers ahead of corporate profits. Now we know that this was simply a bad joke. A joke that all of us, except the CEOs, will pay dearly for in the years ahead. The larger issue though is why President Obama can get away with these inexcusable and hypocritical actions? It's really quite simple: American workers have no real representation in Washington." Download excellent opinion article by Ron Hira, assistant professor of public policy at Rochester Institute of Technology and author of "Outsourcing America"

"It is imperative that in implementing its layoff plan, Microsoft ensures that American workers have priority in keeping their jobs over foreign workers on visa programs. To that effect, I would like you to respond to the following questions"----"My point is that during a layoff, companies should not be retaining H-1B or other work visa program employees over qualified American workers. Our immigration policy is not intended to harm the American workforce. I encourage Microsoft to ensure that Americans are given priority in job retention. Microsoft has a moral obligation to protect these American workers by putting them first during these difficult economic times." Download Press Release and copy of letter to Microsoft CEO from Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa)in PDF format.

As many of you know, though I'm a lifelong Democrat, I have not been happy with the party's nominees for the presidency in recent elections (nor have I liked the Republicans). And though I was quite pleased that an African-American won the election, and I find Obama to be an inspiring speaker, I don't think his promise for Change will be fulfilled. On the contrary, I'm thinking of the French saying, "The more things change, the more they stay the same." Download opinion by Norm Matloff,Professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Davis, in PDF format.

"Barack Obama's pick for commerce secretary, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, vows to create millions of technology jobs that can't be outsourced. Sounds good, particularly in this melting economy. On the other hand, Richardson supports expanding the H-1B visa program, which had greased the departure of good-paying tech jobs to lower-wage countries. The program lets U.S. companies employ up to 65,000 temporary foreign software designers, engineers and other skilled professionals a year."... "In the meantime, someone should ask Gov. Richardson exactly what tech jobs can't be outsourced. Moving skilled U.S. jobs offshore may be a trend that's already taken off, but why should Washington provide the airplanes? Perhaps that should be question No. 1" Download entire article: By Froma Harrop in PDF format.

Over the years, U.S. Sens. Christopher J. Dodd and Joe Lieberman have collected tens of thousands of dollars from Pfizer Inc.'s political action committee. Critics say that not so coincidentally the two Connecticut senators have supported expansion of the United States' guestworker visa programs like the H-1B that Pfizer, among other companies, has used to systematically outsource hundreds of American jobs. Download entire article in PDF format.

The lame-duck Bush administration is trying to link support for an auto-industry rescue loan to Congressional passage of the stalled Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The loan is a good idea. The Colombia trade agreement is a very bad one. Download recent Economic Policy Institute (EPI) statement on this issue, in PDF format

In 2007, 5.6 million jobs were lost or displaced by the U.S. non-oil trade deficit (Scott 2008). Despite strong export growth over the past few years, that deficit still totaled $473 billion in 2007, only $48 billion less than its record peak in 2006. More than 4 million (70%) of the jobs displaced by this trade in 2007 were in the manufacturing sector. Download Press Release and copy of report from the Economic Policy Institute in PDF format.

"Has the financial class driven through the heartland of America lately? Have they not taken AMTRAK between New York City and Washington, D.C., passing through the industrial back lots of Baltimore, Wilmington, Philadelphia, Trenton and Newark? Have they not seen an American landscape stretching for thousands of square miles that looks like it has been bombed out? There are places in America that are "healthy," but these places are even worse: shopping and strip malls located on the edges of America's deteriorating towns and cities, lined with vast parking lots and national chain stores: Applebees, Home Depot, Wal-Mart, Wendy's, Days Inn, Outback Steak House. They are soul-less places -- "Anywhere USA" -- as depressing as the crumbling inner city cores of hundreds of American cities and towns. This is what has become of America: Download entire perspective in PDF format.

Jack Abramoff, who has been convicted of crimes involving politicians, got his start as a lobbyist working for Bill Gates' father's law firm, lobbying for massive numbers of additional H-1b visas to enable foreign computer programmers to enter the United States and replace American workers. There are computer programmers who, to this very day, still refer to those visas as the "Abramoff Visa!" Download LA Times article and also a "Victim Impact Statement" submitted to Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle by Dr. Gene Nelson, Ph.D., an indefatigable proponent of reforming and/or elimination of the H-1B Visa "Temporary Worker Program."

The collapse of world socialism, the rise of the high speed Internet, a bought-and-paid-for US government, and a million dollar cap on executive pay that is not performance related are permitting greedy and disloyal corporate executives, Wall Street, and large retailers to dismantle the ladders of upward mobility that made America an "opportunity society." In the 21st century the US economy has been able to create net new jobs only in nontradable domestic services, such as waitresses, bartenders, government workers, hospital orderlies, and retail clerks. (Nontradable services are "hands on" services that cannot be sold as exports, such as haircuts, waiting a table, fixing a drink.) Download Article by Paul Craig Roberts in PDF format.

"As we all know, employers run bogus job ads so that they can legally reject all qualified Americans who apply. It's all part of the labor certification game that is designed to give employers everything they need to discriminate against higher priced U.S. workers. It's been business-as-usual in the cheap labor business until an engineer named David Huber applied for a network engineer position at Cisco Systems in response to a job advertisement in the Chicago Tribune newspaper. Cisco never intended on hiring a U.S. citizen so they sent all resumes to an employee of Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP. The problem for Cisco and Fragomen is that they bungled the job ad because it included the employee's name. Big, big, mistake! To see the job ad and to understand why it's causing such a stir, go to this web page:" Download Rob Sanchez JobDestruction Newsletter in PDF format.

JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER No. 1883 --By: Rob Sanchez. Lou Dobbs had three excellent reports about Nielsen replacing American workers at the Oldsmar location. The three videos on Youtube and the transcripts are below:

"In the 1990s, dot-com celebrations were happening everywhere. From Silicon Valley to Boston, from Austin to Seattle, the geeky Lambda Lambda Lambda frat brothers from Revenge of the Nerds were suddenly big men on campus, starting computer companies, swimming in cash--partying, as Prince might say, like it was 1999 (it actually was 1999). As the kegger raged upstairs, though, a group of Microsoft employees at its headquarters in Redmond, Washington, called the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers--WashTech for short--was shrieking from the basement about an impending economic massacre. Sadly, very few were listening. Now the party's over--and a white-collar uprising is on." Download complete article in PDF format.

Vince Wade explains the H-1B visa scam in a short animated video.

'We write to express our strong objection to bringing to the House floor any time in the remaining days of the 110th Congress legislation to increase temporary foreign worker visas, skilled or unskilled."...."We strongly oppose any legislation that increases temporary work visas of any kind, in any manner, including exemptions from visa category caps. Please side with American workers and their families, and turn aside the reckless appeals of corporate special interests." Download entire letter sent today to US Represenatives Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer from some 20 organizations expressing their opposition to increasing H1B and H2B visas, in PDF format.

This article establishes that "things of value" were provided by Microsoft Corporation in order to facilitate "official acts"--changes beneficial to Microsoft in H-1B visa law in 1996, 1998, and 2000. Microsoft lawyer-lobbyist (and felon) Jack Abramoff played a critical role in conspiring with 10 members of his network and elected officials to expand the "Abramoff visa" (the H-1B visa). As a consequence of the employment discrimination against older and minority American citizens, this author seeks prosecution of the conspiring parties under RICO. Download entire article in PDF format.

"A report released yesterday by the nonprofit Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) posits that most of the workers hired under the H-1B visa program do not possess optimum technological skills. Authored by University of California-Davis computer science professor Norman Matloff, the study indicated that the wages paid to technology workers who receive H-1B work visas tend to barely exceed the prevailing wages that federal law requires employers to pay these workers. CIS also reports that most of the workers receiving the technology employment visas work either at entry level or just above it. It deduces that most of these foreign workers are not the finest in their fields and therefore do not serve as evidence that the H-1B visa program has brought many technological innovators to U.S. shores. "In pressuring Congress to expand the H-1B work visa and employment-based green card programs, industry lobbyists have recently adopted a new tack," Mr. Matloff wrote. "Seeing that their past cries of a tech laborshortage are contradicted by stagnant or declining wages, their new buzzword is innovation." He said that while workers from abroad may not show unique technological proficiency, one motive compels the industry to press federal officials to expand the number of visas they may utilize. "Because they're cheap," he said. He noted two studies, both commissioned by Congress, which indicated employers admitting that they did not pay H-1B recipients as much as they paid Americans. Ross Eisenbrey, vice president of the liberal Economic Policy Institute, said he agreed with the conclusion that those hired under work visa programs tend not to exceed their native-born counterparts in skill. "The companies are not interested in attracting the best talent," he said. "They're really using the visa as a cost-cutting mechanism. If you wanted to get the best people, you would offer more than the average wage." U.S. Sens. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) have introduced legislation to remove loopholes in the law allowing some employers to avoid paying the prevailing wage to H-1B workers. Their bill would also prohibit an employer from hiring someone on a work visa within 90 days of a layoff. Mr. Matloff says it is early to tell whether the entirety of the bill stands a chance of becoming law." Download copy of Doctor Matloff's report in PDF format.

640 CWA members who work for Western Union in Missouri and Texas are about to lose their jobs. Earline Jones, president of CWA Local 6377 knows why. "It's about globalization. They say they ran the numbers, and it's cheaper for them to do business elsewhere. They're outsourcing America, and what will be left?" We're pursing every possible avenue to stop Western Union from walking away from these workers. But we need your help. Click below to tell the Western Union CEO Christina Gold to stop outsourcing America and keep good, union jobs in Missouri and Texas!

[THIS TESTIMONY WAS GIVEN BEFORE THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION, CITIZENSHIP, REFUGEES, BORDER SECURITY, AND INTERNATIONAL LAW ON APRIL 16, 2008.] EPI urges Congress: Cut or Eliminate H-2B Visas! As the country drifts into recession and U.S. workers face rising unemployment, Congress is fiddling with the idea of expanding a controversial visa program that enables employers to recruit tens of thousands of foreign workers for jobs they claim they can't fill with U.S. workers. In testimony before Congress, EPI Vice President Ross Eisenbrey makes the case that, rather than expand H-2B visas, we should scale these much-abused visas back significantly or eliminate them altogether. Read the full testimony below:

"Mohanty Dolagobinda is one of the Visa God's believers. Three years ago, a U.S. consulting company applied for a visa on his behalf. It was rejected. When the company tried again the following year, Mr. Dolagobinda's friends told him to visit the Chilkur Balaji temple ahead of his interview at the U.S. consulate. Weeks later, he sailed through the interview. "I've never heard of anyone who's gone to the temple whose visa got rejected," says Mr. Dolagobinda." Download entire article to see what we are up against.

"Between 2000 and 2003, Korenberg and Rodriguez filed fraudulent employment-based visa petitions on behalf of foreign nationals seeking temporary work visas or permanent residency in the United States, according to a 33-count federal indictment. At least 19 of the foreign nationals who benefited from the scheme were employees of the defendants' law firm, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. Investigators said Korenberg and Rodriguez wrote false job titles and salaries on visa applications, citing jobs that didn't exist. They also lied about the foreigners' work experience." Download story in PDF format.

'As we look at both parties, their candidates and their campaign rhetoric of hope and change, there is a lot of talk about magically creating good jobs for people but little substance on how that's going to be accomplished. Who talks about fixing the negative impact that the H-1B visa program has made on the economy of this country? The Republicans? Jay Leno had an interesting observation on that. Hillary Clinton is for expanding the H-1B visa program. She says she's willing to sacrifice more jobs and the well-being of families. It's funny how the unions haven't picked up on this. Barack Obama hasn't really addressed H-1Bs and John McCain isn't seeing it as a problem. Here is what needs to be done:" Download two (2)columns by James Carlini in PDF format.

"Ephraim Schwartz wrote an editorial yesterday bemoaning the fact that 19 debates have gone by without a single question about the H-1B issue. After last night's debate, that number goes up to 20 debates! Did you notice that in last night's presidential debate the topic of immigration was avoided, except for Obama briefly complaining that Clinton's touch back provision for guest workers wasn't effective? I'm Not sure what Obama had in mind, but presumably he just wants guest workers to stay here forever until they get amnesty. In 90 minutes of debate, this is all that was said about the topic of immigration." Download Rob Sanchez JobDestruction Newsletter in PDF format.

"More than likely the H-1B contractors that are replacing the Chrysler workers are from bodyshops like Infosys or Tata. Tough to speculate further unless the union provides more information." Download Rob Sanchez Newsletter in PDF format.

"My bachelor's was from a top-notch science and engineering school in California, Harvey Mudd College. I worked hard to earn a Ph.D. in biophysics at SUNYAB between 1973 and 1984. I was unable to pursue a career in radiation biophysics. Now aged 56, I have had to face the prospect of homelessness more than once because employers prefer "fresh (inexpensive) young blood" - now mostly via the controversial 1990 H-1B visa program. The H-1B Visa gave to many employers the same advantage (special handling) that colleges and universities such as SUNYAB obtained via the obscure 1976 "Eilberg Amendment." Download opinion article by Dr. Gene Nelson, in PDF format.

"The new e-notification system that's being developed should be online by April, when the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services begins accepting H-1B visa petitions for fiscal 2009, which starts on Oct. 1. But that's not the only process change to H-1B visas that's being worked out. The Dept. of Homeland Security and Dept. of Labor are studying other administrative and regulatory "fixes" to help streamline H-1B processes, he said. Those proposed changes likely will be made public in the coming months. Among the ideas being mulled is a plan for the U.S. government to host a meeting for "H-1B stakeholders" to discuss ways of improving the work visa process, he said." Download complete article in PDF format.

"IBM announced Tuesday that it has opened another global delivery center, this one in the city of Noida, located in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, and is planning another center in the area by mid-2008. Both centers will employ about 3,000 people, IBM said. With the addition of those two, IBM will have six global delivery centers and will employ more than 70,000 people working out of facilities within some 10 cities in India." Download entire aerticle in PDF format.

In their zeal to enlist government help to expand the supply of tech workers through foreign guest worker programs, employers are misrepresenting IT labor market conditions. However, if the candidates for president aren't asked about it - how can we expect them to do stand up for it once they get into the White House? Help us make H-1B Visa reform an issue by visiting http://dyn.politico.com/debate and submitting a question to be asked of the candidates at the CNN debates at the end of this month. A sample question:"Given the numerous reports showing there is no shortage of tech workers, would you agree to cut or eliminate the H-1B Visa program?" Download entire article and a link to submit your question.(NOTE) You must register to submit a question. HOWEVER, registration is not required to VOTE on a question already submitted. The H-1B question has already been submitted to candidates from both parties under economy and immigration issues. . While on the website VOTE on these questions to be asked of ALL CANDIDATES.

"Wadhwa found no general shortage, only "specific shortages in&specific areas of technology" such as the newly emerging field of biofuels, he says. Dozens of employers asked to compare American engineers to their much-vaunted colleagues from India and China agreed that "in education, training, quality of work, you name it, in every which way, Americans are better." Even the best schools in those countries "don't hold a candle to our best schools," he continues. Newly hired American university graduates "become productive within 30 days or so. If you hire a graduate of an Indian university, it takes between 3 and 6 months for them to become productive." The image of shortage arises from "emotion versus fact" and "misinformation that feeds on itself," Wadhwa says." Download complete article in PDF format.

"Although China and inadequate U.S. safety systems are often blamed, U.S. toy corporations decisions to shift production to countries without adequate safety systems and trade policies companies pushed through Congress that limit import safety standards and inspection are the root causes of the imported toy safety crisis, according to a report released today by Public Citizen. Improving toy safety will require changes to trade policy as well as U.S. product safety policies, the report concludes."Our children's safety has been the price for soaring profits and CEO pay of major U.S. toy companies that have chosen to relocate their production to venues in which they cannot ensure the safety of their products," said Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch division, which produced the report. "The main villains in this unhappy holiday story are the CEOs of major U.S. toy and retail companies who spent millions lobbying to lock in race-to-the-bottom offshore production strategies with trade agreements that protect their overseas investments while limiting import safety and inspection." Download Press Release and copy of the report in PDF format.

TORAW is out of funds and that its membership has shrunk to a handful of people, down from the initial wave of several hundred who signed on as members. "People lost interest in the fight," Bauman said. Many of TORAW's members have moved on, in some cases taking jobs in other industries. For instance, one of the organizers is driving an 18-wheeler, while another is doing home repair work, said Bauman, who has been focusing on TORAW's activities on a full-time basis. If there is any hint of resignation in Bauman's voice, it's not from lack of effort. In 2003 alone, lawmakers from Connecticut introduced three bills proposing changes to the H-1B and L-1 programs. TORAW also held protests, one outside of an outsourcing conference in New York. One member of the group held a sign that read: "Will Code for Food." "I don't regret anything that we've done," Bauman said. "We tried our best." Download complete article in PDF format. Well Done John! Steve Tisza, President CWA Local 4250 - Chicago

"While Senator Clinton is on the campaign trail, promising US citizens and LABOR her full support when it comes to jobs, she weaves a tangled web of deceit, hidden from the voter, unseen, yet providing a billion dollar bonanza for India and allowing for thousands of visas for Indian workers to enter the United States to work at jobs that SHOULD RIGHTFULLY have gone to US graduating engineers and IT professionals. Jobs that we NEED in THIS COUNTRY. Yet she remains above it all, knowing all along she has become one of India's best friends in the United States, enabling them to plunder the job market here in the United States, outsourcing professional jobs while new graduates scramble looking for work here in the United States.: Download article from Obama website in PDF format.

Reduce costs immediately. All the talk about growing revenue instead of attacking overhead is hard to swallow given the heavily leveraged structure of the buyout. Expect buyouts and layoffs. Also likely: shrinking the circulation footprint of some newspapers to save on newsprint and delivery costs and outsourcing more business functions. Tribune newspapers already outsource circulation customer service calls to a call center in the Philippines operated by APAC Customer Service of Deerfield, Ill. Other U.S. print publications have begun farming out advertising production and basic word-processing tasks to contractors in India (See: "Dateline: Bangalore"). Download complete story in PDF format.

"Last week, the Kenyan government signed an agreement with French-US telecom group Alcatel-Lucent for a fiber-optic cable linking the Kenyan port of Mombasa with the United Arab Emirates. More important, it will connect East Africa to the rest of the world's Internet capacity and replace the slow and costly satellite links that act as a brake on the country's fast developing industry in business process outsourcing (BPO). At the signing, Bitange Ndemo, permanent secretary at the Ministry of Information and Communications, said the connection would allow more ordinary Kenyans to surf the Internet. But the real driving force behind the deal, he said, was the potential for creating jobs in call centers and the rest of the outsourcing industry." Download complete story in PDF format.

"There is no more of a shortage of US scientists and engineers than there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The US media has no investigative capability and serves up the lies that serve short-term corporate and political interests. If it were not for the Internet that provides Americans with access to foreign news sources, Americans would live in a world of perfect disinformation. Offshoring interests and economic dogmas have combined to create a false picture of America's economic position. While the ladders of upward mobility are being dismantled, Americans are being told that they have never had it better." Download recent article by Paul Craig Roberts in PDF format.

December 12, 2007 (Network World) "News of AT&T Inc.'s plans to scale back it telework program have set the industry buzzing. Dozens of readers, some who say they are AT&T employees, commented on Network World's recent story about how the telecommunications company is requiring possibly thousands of home-based employees to give up their virtual offices and return to corporate office sites... "Others speculated that AT&T's moves could be intended to force attrition -- some teleworkers might opt to leave AT&T rather than return to an office. "Some might see this as a cheaper way to lay off a bunch of employees as a prelude to outsourcing them," wrote one reader." Download complete article in PDF format.

"Integrity is so lacking in America that the shortage myth serves the interests of universities, funding agencies, employers, and immigration attorneys at the expense of American students who naively pursue professions in which their prospects are dim. Initially it was blue-collar factory workers who were abandoned by US corporations and politicians. Now it is white-collar employees and Americans trained in science and technology. Princeton University economist Alan Blinder estimates that there are 30 to 40 million American high end service jobs that ultimately face offshoring. As I predict, and as BLS payroll jobs data indicate, in 20 years the US will have a Third World work force engaged in domestic nontradable services." Download entire article by Paul Craig Roberts, in PDF format.

"A new report by the Center for Immigration Studies examines the size, growth, and characteristics of the nation's immigrant, or foreign-born, population as of March 2007. The reported provides a detailed picture of overall immigrant population and of the illegal immigrant population." Download entire article and copy of the new report, in PDF format.

"Ross Perot was fiercely against NAFTA. Knowing what we know now, was Ross Perot right?" That's what CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked Hillary Clinton at last week's Democratic presidential debate. It was a straightforward query about a Clinton administration trade policy that polls show the public now hates, and it was appropriately directed to a candidate who has previously praised NAFTA. In response, Clinton stumbled. First she laughed at Perot, then she joked that "all I can remember from that is a bunch of charts," and then she claimed the whole NAFTA debate "is a vague memory." The behavior showed how politically tone deaf some Democratic leaders are." Download entire article by David Sirota in PDF format.

At the same time the White House is pushing to vastly expand the job-killing, wage-destroying NAFTA trade model, we get this from Bloomberg News (full story attached below): "President George W. Bush may veto legislation to expand benefits for workers harmed by international trade because it would cover more workers than necessary, a White House statement said...Specifically, the Bush administration objected to a provision that would provide added unemployment insurance and training to service workers, such as x-ray technicians or call center workers, and expand a tax break to help unemployed workers pay for health insurance...'If this bill were presented to the president in its current form, the president's senior advisers would recommend he veto the bill,' the statement said." Download PDF file for more information.

Download a solidarity message from Ralph Maly, CWA C&T Vice-President, to the French Unions who held press conferences and informational pickets today protesting the Alcatel-Lucent Board's new plans and restructuring. Also includes today's WSJ article about Acatel-Lucent, in PDF format.

"Vivek Wadhwa is very good at diagnosing problems and articulating them on paper. Having said that, there is not much in his article that hasn't been written many times before (see footnote below). The only difference is that Wadhwa is a CEO that happens to be a naturalized citizen from India, and he happens to write for Business Week. My guess is that the mainstream media will ignore his article because it has a little too much of the truth, and he makes enough credible points to make most corporacrats squirm. Wadhwa is somewhat of a heretic, and I'm sure he will receive wide scale condemnation in the business and Indian communities for writing the article. That doesn't mean we should embrace his positions on employment based visas, but we certainly should use what he says to bolster what we have been trying to say for years." Download Rob Sanchez' JobDestruction Newsletter #1777. Rob provides readers a thought provoking analysis of Vivek Wadhwa's recent BusinessWeek opinion article titled: "The Science Education Myth", in PDF format.

"As Congressional Quarterly reported this week, K Street lobbying firms are now staffed up with former Democratic congressional staffers. As all of this shows, they are verifying what Leo Hindery told me in my most recent nationally syndicated newspaper column: "The wealthy are now a political constituency unto themselves that is decidedly nonpartisan." Hindery calls it "nonpartisan" - I call it buypartisan. Whatever you want to call it, it is fueled by the very corruption we are seeing on trade, taxes and now on immigration. This is the Democratic Party of Washington, D.C. - a party that seems more and more comfortable selling out the middle-class to make corporate lobbyists happy." Download entire article by David Sirota, in PDF format.

"If Elias thinks this is all due to the Big Bad Republicans (here I must insert the disclaimer that I am a longtime liberal Democrat), he needs to take another look. Support of H-1B is thoroughly, and outrageously, bipartisan. The program was created by a Republican president with a Democratic Congress, then expanded twice by a Democratic president with a Republican Congress. Hilary Clinton, Barak Obama, John Edwards and other major Democratic candidates for president have all stated that H-1B needs to be expanded, and none is willing to admit that it is a badly abused program which is pushed by major corporate donors to the candidates' campaign and party funds. My own senators, Boxer and Feinstein, have been bombarded with complaints about H-1B, yet refuse to recognize the problem, and continue to support the program. And though Elias is also correct that bills by Durbin (with equal participation from Republican Grassley, whom Elias somehow "overlooked") and Pascrell would do a good job in reforming H-1B, NONE of those Democratic senators above have signed on as a cosponsor. Elias is completely wrong in his claim about Tancredo and the immigration reform organizations. Tancredo has both spoken out against H-1B and introduced legislation to fix it. FAIR, NumbersUSA etc. have also been quite active on the H-1B issue, as Elias would have learned if he had simply taken 30 seconds to glance at their Web pages. It's depressing to see a journalist with such a wide audience write such a sloppy, misleading column." Download rebuttal of Tom Elias column by Dr. Norm Matloff, in PDF format.

"Sometimes writers and editorialists try to do the right thing, but they get duped. The iditorial that is appearing in small newspapers like the Palo Alto Daily News is a prime example. The author appears to be a pro-labor liberal that probably intended well, but he relied on a website with faulty information called BrightFutureJobs. I could be giving the author too much credit for good will considering his comments on Tom Tancredo (see more on that below). To find out more about the website in question go here: http://www.brightfuturejobs.org/ BrightFutureJobs was founded and is directed by Donna Conroy. I'm not totally sure what her goal or purpose is, but it has something to do with ending discrimination against Americans -- which is definitely a worthwhile goal. Go to the website to see if you can figure what she is all about. Most of the webpages are sprinkled with Conroy's thoughts about how H-1B allows discriminatory employment practices -- and she doesn't let facts get in her way! You will also be given many opportunities to give money to the organization -- perhaps some of that money goes to efforts at fooling gullible journalists. Donna Conroy sent a newsletter on behalf of BrightFutureJobs with gobs of braggadocio about where the writer got his information for the column. Since Conroy claims credit for the column I think it's fair game to blame her for the results. In this case the fault may have been just as much with the one who provided the information as with the one who wrote it. This editorial is quite insightful. What's amazing about this column is that he was able to glean this information from our web site. He got every point we were making. In contrast, some journalists are confused forever. Thomas D. Elias saw how Brightfuturejobs.org is distinguishing itself." Download JobDestruction Newsletter #1773 by Rob Sanchez, in PDF format.

"The Bush administration and the Republican Party are often criticized for refusing to aggressively use the "soft power" of international diplomacy. But alas, the attacks are misguided. This crew is more than willing to use "soft power", not in Iraq, but in Central America, and not in an effort to bring American troops home, but in a ploy unfolding this weekend to enrich its big campaign contributors through the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)." ..."Costa Rica, by contrast, was the lone nation that refused to immediately ratify the pact. The pushback was a particularly damning commentary on the deal considering that, unlike its neighbors, Costa Rica is not some war-torn quasi-colony but a longstanding democracy, "Central America's most prosperous economy and a model of social stability for the region," according to the Los Angeles Times. Opposition to CAFTA exploded from every part of Costa Rican civil society; labor unions, human rights groups, religious organizations, you name it. The outcry was so intense that pro-CAFTA President Oscar Arias felt compelled to submit CAFTA to a national referendum, which will occur this Sunday, October 7. Now fearing a humiliating rejection of lobbyist-written trade policy on the global stage, the White House has dispatched U.S. Ambassador Mark Langdale to spearhead a campaign of intimidation, all on the taxpayer's dime. This Texas telecommunications and real estate businessman was installed as envoy to Costa Rica after dumping tens of thousands of dollars into President Bush's political campaigns. And like the loyal corporate crony he is, Langdale has been touring Costa Rica threatening economic reprisals if voters there dare to send CAFTA down to defeat." Download opinion by David Sirotta, in PDF format.

Preview by Rob Sanchez, Job Destruction Newsletter No. 1764: "I cannot say enough superlatives about this new paper from Dr. Norman Matloff. The paper is posted at this link: http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/PrevWage.pdf For those of you that want to learn about H-1B and green cards, you can't go wrong reading this 25 page paper. It's divided into sections so you can read it in parts if there are particular sections of interest to you, or if you don't have the time to read the entire document. Download Dr Matloff' new paper in PDF format.

San Antonio-based AT&T Inc. announced plans Wednesday to bring 175 call center jobs once outsourced overseas back to the United States, part of a group of 5,000 outsourced jobs company officials plan to fold back into its operations. The new call center, to be located at AT&T Arkansas' headquarters in Little Rock, will help callers who have AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet services. The new union-represented jobs will bring AT&T Arkansas up to 2,800 employees with a $135 million payroll, said president Ed Drilling. "These jobs are currently outsourced to other companies and a lot of the work is actually done overseas," Drilling told a news conference at the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce. "We're bringing these jobs as part of an ongoing commitment back into the country." Download complete story in PDF format.

"Chief executive Ronald Rittenmeyer, who took over Sept. 1 from Michael Jordan, is hiring workers in India to replace more-expensive US employees and revive profit." Meanwhile he's laughing all the way to the bank. Download article in PDF format.

"The fastest-growing group of illegal immigrants in the United States doesn't speak Spanish. They typically aren't found at day labor sites or streaming across the Southwest border into the U.S. Instead, they're here in America working in tech companies, small businesses, as engineers or other highly skilled jobs. And they're coming from India. The profile of the illegal immigrant may need to take on a slightly more South Asian persona since a recent federal report revealed that India had the greatest percentage increase in unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. since 2000." Download complete article in PDF format.

Congress recently held hearings on the STRIVE ACT, which along with amnesty for illegal aliens, will more than double H-1B Visas. The Illinois AFL-CIO unanimously passed my resolution to ABOLISH the H-1B Visa 5 YEARS AGO this month. Has your State AFL-CIO passed a similar resolution. If not, WHY? Download a copy of my resolution from 5 years ago, in PDF format.

"The U.S.-India Political Action Committee has defended outsourcing vendors, most of whose employees are in India, although the group represents Indian-Americans. A profile of Mrs. Clinton on the group's Web site notes that "even though she was against outsourcing at the beginning of her political career, she has since changed her position." In an internal memo leaked in June, staff members from the Obama campaign contended that Mrs. Clinton's ties to wealthy Indian businesspeople had made her favor outsourcing. The memo cited the Clintons' ties to Vinod Gupta, an Indian entrepreneur who founded InfoUSA, one of the United States' largest brokers of information on consumers. Mr. Gupta, a major fund-raiser and benefactor for the Clintons who was nominated for ambassadorships by President Bill Clinton, was detailed in the Obama memo because his company outsources to India and he has vocally supported the practice." (NOTE) Hillary Clinton is the co-chair of the "Friends of India" Caucus in the U.S.Senate. Download complete article in PDF format.

"We don't believe that there is a labor shortage," says Kim Berry, president of the Programmers Guild. "There is perhaps a shortage of people willing to work at the salary being offered because those rates are now being set by visa programs like H-1B." Download entire Business Week article and response by Gene A. Nelson, Ph.D. (unemployed, 55 year-old American citizen scientist), in PDF format.

"Tata's business dealings reflect the bolder side of his personality. In the past four years he has embarked on an investment binge that is building his group from a once-stodgy regional player into a global heavyweight. Since 2003, Tata has bought the truck unit of South Korea's Daewoo Motors, a stake in one of Indonesia's biggest coal mines, and steel mills in Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. It has taken over a slew of tony hotels including New York's Pierre, the Ritz-Carlton in Boston, and San Francisco's Camden Place. The 2004 purchase of Tyco International's (TYC) undersea telecom cables for $130 million, a price that in hindsight looks like a steal, turned Tata into the world's biggest carrier of international phone calls. With its $91 million buyout of British engineering firm Incat International, Tata Technologies now is a major supplier of outsourced industrial design for American auto and aerospace companies, with 3,300 engineers in India, the U.S., and Europe." Download entire article in PDF format.

"As India's external affairs minister, Jaswant Singh, famously quipped after his country exploded a series of nuclear devices on May 18, 1998, in defiance of the international nonproliferation regime, India's in a "dangerous neighborhood." India never signed the nonproliferation treaty and never expressed any regrets about acquiring the bomb. Today, not even a decade later, the U.S. has fully pardoned India's nuclear faux pas. The Bush administration has pushed aggressively--and, critics say, too generously--to recognize India as a de facto member of the exclusive nuclear club, and to guarantee that it can develop its civilian nuclear capacity while preserving its military nuclear program. The U.S. is betting big on India. Why? And what's in it for India?" Download entire article in PDF format.

"Two years ago, Fortune 500 energy company NiSource Inc., of Merrillville, announced it would be cutting more than 1,000 jobs after inking a $1.6 billion outsourcing agreement with IBM. Five months ago, NiSource quietly told employees that financing and accounting jobs outsourced to IBM were coming back to NiSource because "some results had fallen short of expectations." Download complete story by Keith Benman, Northwest Indiania Times on-line news, in PDF format.

AT&T does not operate any research facilities in China and only outsources some services to Indian companies -- a strategy that contrasts with many of the world's leading multinationals such as Microsoft Corp. and Intel Inc. . "It may be time to re-think that," Gopinath said. China's cheap and abundant supply of well-educated engineers and scientists have made it a favourite place for a wide range of companies to establish research facilities.

"Since Tata arrived in Buffalo, "the reality is that it probably created many more jobs for workers overseas and displaced lots of American workers," said Ronil Hira, a public policy professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology and a prominent critic of outsourcing." Download complete story in PDF format.

"Fidel Castro recently complained that the H-1B program is a brain drain On countries like his. Many of the things he says about H-1B are true - In fact he seems more knowledgeable about the issue than our entire Congress and 99% of the American public." Download JobDesctruction Newsletter by Rob Sanchez in PDF format.

"Are we facing an IT shortage of crisis proportions, or systematically destroying a skilled and capable homegrown workforce?" Download a very informative article by, Alice LaPlante, Information Week and TWO MUST READ RESPONSES To her article: (Letter To The Editor) By: Dr. Gene Nelson,unemployed Science Ph.D. author, followed by an (Excellent Analysis) By: Norman Matloff, Professor of Computer Science,University of California,Davis, in PDF format.

"Chalk up another victory for the sharks! Soon after the lawyers filed lawsuits on the behalf of H-1Bs who don't want to wait for their green cards, the USCIS backed down like a bunch of sniveling cowards. It's worth noting that the USCIS is downplaying the threat posed by the lawsuits. They claim that it was public opinion that swayed them. Apparently the only "public opinion" they are listening to are those of the H-1Bs and the immigration lawyers. The statement below by the USCIS is simply appalling the way they casually disregard the American public." Download complete Job Destruction Newsletter by Rob Sanchez in PDF format.

"In the recent newsletter titled "H-1Bs take to the streets to protest" I discussed a protest that was carried out by a bunch of angry H-1Bs in San Jose. That story is only the tip of the iceberg however -- H-1Bs and some large law firms are filing a barrage of lawsuits over the same issue." Download Job Destruction Newsletter by Rob Sanchez in PDF format.

AT&T Inc. has announced the hosting of the first AT&T Asia Pacific Regional Advisory Council (RAC) meeting of the year in New Delhi from July 17 - 18. The meeting comes just one week after AT&T Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Randall Stephenson visited India, his first international trip since assuming the chairman's office in June. Download Press Releae in PDF format.

Washington Gas Light Co has announced signing a 10 year contract with Accenture. This collaboration will result in the loss of 300 positions. OPEIU- Local 2 will lose 150 jobs, management will lose 100 jobs, and 50 are currently vacant. Let's make sure that Washington Gas HEARS US Loud and Clear. Join the hundreds of union brothers and sisters that are placing a call to Washington Gas on July 5 at 11:00am by forwarding this email to your local's e-activist network. CALL TODAY - JULY 5 @ 11:00AM - LABOR UNITES BEHIND WORKERS AT WASHINGTON GAS! Link to TAKE ACTION NOW!

Breaking news from Capitol Hill: An announcement by congressional Democrats delivers a major victory today for the progressive movement and millions of people represented by consumer protection, environmental, agricultural, small business, labor organizations and the courageous Members of Congress and state legislators fighting the good fight: The Secret Trade Deal of 2007 has been officially delayed, as K Street and their cronies in Congress are too afraid to bring it to the floor, for fear it will be defeated. Here's the scoop, fresh off the wire from Bloomberg News:

"A law firm called Cohen&Grigsby held a seminar to promote themselves as a one-stop solution for employers who want to replace their American employees with imported foreign workers. Cohen&Grigsby published a video of their seminar online at YouTube in 20 separate video clips that last from 5-10 minutes each. Their online infomercial became a public relations blunder when the Programmer's Guild published an excerpt of the seminar. Cohen&Grigsby promptly removed the videos on June 18, 2007. As a public service, all 20 videos have been restored. In these video clips you will discover the rules of engagement against the American Middle Class as practiced by immigration lawyers and employers. Link below to view all 20 videos.

AT&T announced this week that it will be bringing back from overseas nearly 650 Tier I DSL technical support jobs and locating them in Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada, later this year. Download PDF file for more information.

"Susan N. Houseman, a good but previously obscure economist with the Upjohn Institute, has discovered a problem in the statistical data that produces phantom US GDP. Phantom GDP results when cost reductions achieved by US firms shifting production offshore are miscounted as US GDP growth. Phantom productivity increases occur when gains from moving design, research and development offshore are counted as increases in US productivity. Obviously, production and productivity that take place abroad are not part of our domestic economy." Download entire perspective by Paul Craig Roberts in PDF format.

"Can the Clinton machine deliver another NAFTA? That is the question in Washington on trade these days, as dynamic similar to the NAFTA debate begins to take shape. The Colombian government, which has been tied to paramilitary gangs that execute union organizers, is spending lavishly to enlist top Clinton administration officials - including Hillary Clinton's top campaign strategist and President Clinton himself - to pressure Democrats on Capitol Hill to pass the Colombian Free Trade Agreement - an agreement that is part of the bigger secret deal." Download entire article in PDF format.

"Clinton said she's already trying to increase the number of so-called H1B visas aimed at highly educated workers. Silicon Valley companies use H1Bs to sponsor thousands of software engineers from Russia, India, China and other countries, but many must return home when their temporary work permits expire. "If you think you have a skills shortage now, project it out a decade and we're going to be in real trouble," Clinton said to applause from more than 200 executives attending the half-day CEO Summit by the Silicon Valley Leadership Group. "We need to guide immigration reform to attract and retain foreign-born students who want to work in the United States," she said, observing that the globalization of the economy in the 21st Century poses special challenges. Download entire article in PDF format.

"Senators Chuck Grassley and Richard Durbin today asked the top nine foreign based companies in 2006 that used nearly 20,000 of the available H-1B visas to disclose further details about their workforce and their use of the special visa program." Download Press Release from Senators Durbin and Grassley. Also, a copy of one of the letters in PDF format.

"In the interest of full transparency, let's remember: It's not totally clear who has seen the actual legislative language of this deal as of now. What we do know is that while many "summaries" have been released, the actual language of the supposedly "reformed" Peru, Panama, South Korea and Colombia Free Trade Agreements have not been made public. We also know that the websites of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee only posted summaries of the deal 24 hours after the press conference, not the actual legislative language. Additionally, we know that the ongoing negotiations in pursuit of this deal were kept 100 percent concealed from rank and file members of Congress (including Congress's most veteran fair traders), reporters and the public, meaning the entire process has been shrouded in secrecy. Public Citizen's Todd Tucker has more on how the press summaries being released by congressional Democratic leaders and the Bush administration deliberately refuse to include the actual legislative language of the trade deals in question, and that these summaries could very easily be very different from the final language - as they were during NAFTA." Download entire perspective by David Sirota in PDF format.

When is local journalism not really local? When it's about Pasadena and written by someone in India. James Macpherson, editor and publisher of the Pasadena Now website, hired two reporters last weekend to cover the Pasadena City Council. One lives in Mumbai and will be paid $12,000 a year. The other will work in Bangalore for $7,200." Download complete story in PDF format.

"I have previously given strong endorsement to the Durbin/Grassley H-1B/L-1 reform bill introduced earlier this year in the Senate. Most of the bill is of little value, but there are a couple of provisions that would be very highly beneficial." Download entire opinion by Dr. Norm Matloff in PDF format.

"There are so many types of visas that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service is running out of letters of the alphabet to name them. A proposed immigration bill the Bush administration is discussing with Congress would create Y and Z visas to admit more temporary workers and grant legal status to those in the country illegally." Download complete article in PDF format.

"The corporations whine that H-1Bs are needed because of a shortage of Americans with skills, but major studies at UC-Davis and Duke universities conclusively prove we have thousands of unemployed or underemployed Americans with all needed technical skills. Nobel economist Milton Friedman accurately labeled H-1Bs a government "subsidy" to enable employers to get workers at a lower wage." Download complete article in PDF format.

"Ever since the offshore shift of engineering work blew up into a national issue four years ago, a question has nagged at economists and policy makers: Is outsourcing hurting America's engineering workforce? Or is it actually boosting engineering careers by making U.S. tech companies more competitive and allowing them to deploy engineers more effectively? Duke University has been at the forefront of assessing this issue with two major research projects -- one by the Fuqua School of Business and the other by Pratt School of Engineering. What's interesting is that the two studies, both involving surveys of U.S. executives, are coming to completely different conclusions. One finds that companies are going offshore because they are desperate for talent and are shifting more complex work to nations such as India and China for strategic reasons. The other Duke study concludes that the offshoring phenomenon is all about cost and that there is no shortage of engineers in the U.S. Therefore, the labor shift is coming at the expense of U.S. jobs. Download entire article and copy of the Duke University Pratt Study in PDF format. Also, ON PAGE TWO OF THE PRATT STUDY click the live link to statistics that dispel the myth that India and China graduates more than 12 times the engineers that the U.S does.

"The U.S. and South Korea agreed to terms on a trade agreement that would be the largest trade agreement since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was signed in the mid 1990's. Specifics are not available as the Bush United States Trade Representative (USTR) notified Congress at midnight on March 31st that they intend to sign the agreement even though the full text of the agreement doesn't exist yet. Regardless of the question of whether or not signing a nonexistent trade deal adheres to the fast track law which governs this process; the real question is why would our government sign something before negotiations are completed?" Download entire article in PDF format.

"Gomory's vision of reformation actually goes beyond the trading system and America's economic deterioration. He wants to re-create an understanding of the corporation's obligations to society, the social perspective that flourished for a time in the last century but is now nearly extinct. The old idea was that the corporation is a trust, not only for shareholders but for the benefit of the country, the employees and the people who use the product. "That attitude was the attitude I grew up on in IBM," Gomory explains. "That's the way we thought--good for the country, good for the people, good for the shareholders--and I hope we will get back to it.... We should measure corporations by their impact on all their constituencies. "So in my utopian dream, we decide what we want from the corporations and that's how they make a profit--by doing those things. Failing that, I would settle for the general realization of this divergence and let people argue it out." Some older CEOs and board members at least listen to him sympathetically. "They have grandchildren," he says. "They wonder too what's going to happen to our grandchildren. You can't get a vote around the corporate board table about, Is this good for the grandchildren? But you can talk to them and they'll worry about it and say, Well, maybe we need to do something." Download complete article in PDF format.

"Senators Durbin and Grassley will be eulogized today on Lou Dobbs and Anderson Cooper. The reason -- they introduced a bill that pretends to reform the H-1B and L-1 programs. Apparently nowadays all you have to do is to put on a charade and everyone jumps on the bandwagon. It just goes to show how desperate we have become for reform. Let's just start out being very blunt -- Durbin is not our friend. His voting record on H-1B is abysmal, so unless he has had an epiphany don't expect anything good to come out of his office. Let's just review Durbin's voting record to see what he does, regardless of what he says:" Download opinion by Rob Sanchez in PDF format.

"Instead of Congress seeking to expand the number of foreign workers in our country, they first must address the illegal immigration crisis that we are facing today. Congress should provide veto-proof support for increasing our Border Patrol, and not cave-in to the demands of foreigners by granting them legal status, or by flooding the job market with an even greater number of workers on the H-1B visa program." Download entire commentary in PDF format.

"I wish to express strong concern with the composition of the panel before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) for tomorrow's (March 7, 2007) hearing entitled "Strengthening American Competitiveness for the 21st Century." I am deeply disturbed the panel consists only of Bill Gates and excludes the voice of workers." Download entire letter to Chairman Kennedy and Ranking Member Enzi from Linda Chavez Thompson, Executive Vice-President, AFL-CIO, in PDF format.

"I understand that billionaire William Gates, III has been invited to appear before the Senate HELP Committe on Wednesday, March 7,2007. In the interest of a balanced treatment of this important topic, experienced American citizen programmers should also be given the opportunity to provide in-person testimony at this hearing." Download e-mail alert from Dr. Gene A. Nelson, Ph.D., in PDF format. Contact you Senators and DEMAND equal time for Labor witnesses.

A reader of one of my previous American Chronicle articles recently contacted me to see if I might be interested in some data for a future article about the current Republican leaders and some of their questionable past and current political connections. After checking out the background of the reader, I readily agreed to look over the data that he had compiled. The provider of this data is Dr. Gene A. Nelson, Ph.D. Dr. Nelson has been passionately involved in workforce issues for decades, including being called on to give testimony to the US House of Representatives in 1998 and again in 1999. He assisted in organizing demonstrations against H-1B visa program abusers including: Microsoft, Bank of America, EDS, Perot Systems,Texas Instruments and IBM. He is currently writing a book titled: An American Scam: How Social Interests Undermine National Security. He has also learned and written about the key individuals that have been the architects for the past years of destruction of the American, Science and Engineering Enterprise. Download entire article by Gary Alter in PDF format.

"Leading Democrats struck American engineers with a powerful left-left combo before the opening bell of round 3 of the H-1B battle. Senator Kerry (D-MA) and Senator Kennedy (D-MA) attempted to secretly add an amendment to the Minimum Wage bill last week. This earmark would have massively increased the H-1B cap and could have dealt a death blow to countless engineering careers across the country. With the immigration bill still months away, two senior Democrats stepped into the ring to demonstrate where their allegiance lies. It looks like it may be "curtains" for the engineers of America." Download entire article in PDF format.

"The "good cop, bad cop" routine doesn't just make for good TV, it is also an important negotiating strategy in business and economics. The "good cop" can finesse the adversary and offer up deals and agreements -- while citing the "bad cop" as the reason he must stay firm. Unfortunately, when it comes to America's international trade policy, we have had only the "good cop" president as the negotiator -- and not enough of a "bad cop" in Congress, making sure our presidents hold the line on labor, human rights and environmental issues. The result has been a trade policy too freely giving away access to America's markets and contributing to the loss of millions of jobs." Download entire article by Leo Hindery Jr.and David Sirota in PDF format.

The AFL-CIO, a federation of 54 unions, calls guest-worker programs exploitative and wants immigrants who enter the country to do so as permanent residents, not temporary workers. Eliseo Medina, executive vice president of SEIU, which broke from the AFL-CIO in 2005 over strategic differences, said his union recognizes "the reality of the marketplace and the economy." A guest-worker program could give immigrant workers the right to unionize and eventually petition for citizenship, he said. Download entire article in PDF format.

The Senate, by a 94-0 vote Thursday, inserted a federal contracting ban for businesses that violate immigration laws into a bill that would raise the federal floor on hourly pay from $5.15 to $7.25 over two years. Download entire article in PDF format.

-- "President Bush yesterday called for an increase in the federal cap on H-1B visas, an issue he said he feels "strongly" about and wants to work with Congress to make happen. Bush did not mention H-1B visas in his Tuesday address to Congress, but at DuPont he told employees: "I also want you to know I understand that we need to make sure that when a smart person from overseas wants to come and work in DuPont, it's in our interests to allow him or her to do so." His remarks were included in a transcript of his speech to the DuPont workers. "We've got to expand what's called H-1B visas," said Bush. Download entire article in PDF format.

"In mid-December of 2006 AT&T blocked my newsletter from all of its customers. I found out that AT&T was blocking it mostly by coincidence while talking to a subscriber who asked me why I haven't been publishing newsletters lately. To make a long story short, the reason they weren't getting the newsletters is that someone in India arbitrarily decided to put a spam block on all email content from ZaZona internet servers. I base this accusation on converstations I had with a few AT&T customers that fought this censorship." Download entire Newsletter by Rob Sanchez in PDF format.

The Texas Health and Human Service Commission decided to announce during the holidays that it was curtailing its contract with Accenture to operate privatized enrollment and eligibility call centers. Can't imagine why! Download late breaking news about this BIG CWA Victory in PDF format.

"With more than 5,000 employees in and around Iraq and Afghanistan, DynCorp's paramilitary work force deploys alongside the U.S. military, putting the company at the center of a global debate on the "outsourcing" of war zone jobs that once were the Pentagon's exclusive domain." ----.."contractors currently rank as the second-largest foreign force, behind the U.S. military, serving in Iraq." Download entire story in PDF format.

"If the present situation has taught Americans anything, it is that real reform won’t get done until the Congress and the White House know for sure that their continuance in office is contingent on their doing the right thing for all Americans—not just the paymasters who finance their reelections. How about you, Mr. Lewis? If you figure we don’t get the drift of your column as a paean for open borders, forget it! Our broken school systems and the mounting use by illegal aliens of all our other public services are now well understood by the vast majority of Americans." Download PDF copy of opinion by Donald A. Collins, a freelance writer living in Washington DC and a board member of FAIR, the Federation for American Immigration Reform. His views are his own.

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"Phyllis Schlafly's article is excellent but has one minor shortcoming -- it presents the H-1B debate only in terms of the harms it is doing to engineers and programmers. While techies and scientists make up at least 55% of the available H-1B visas, let's don't forget that there are many other professions affected by the H-1B program such as teachers, accountants, nurses, doctors, and yes, even lawyers." Download entire article from Rob Sanchez Newletter, in PDF format.

"Tracking visitors took on particular urgency after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, when it became clear that some of the hijackers had remained in the country after their visas had expired. But in recent days, officials at the Homeland Security Department have conceded that they lack the financing and technology to meet their deadline to have exit-monitoring systems at the 50 busiest land border crossings by next December. Download complete story and GAO Report Summary in PDF format.

"The evidence that illegal immigration and mass immigration are harming our country is overwhelming and irrefutable. Congestion, environment, crime, health care, education - the costs are too high to continue to bear." Download in PDF format.

Anil K Joseph, Beijing, Dec 11: In an apparent bid to challenge India's dominance of the global outsourcing market, China has decided to develop 10 outsourcing base cities by 2010 to transform the Communist giant as the most favoured outsourcing destination of multinationals. The ambitious plan would encourage 100 multinationals to shift offshore outsourcing services to China and foster 1,000 large and medium-sized service outsourcing enterprises, Assistant Minister of Commerce Fu Ziying said. Download World News Report in PDF format.

The report found 2005 median household income showed only a modest gain of $775, after a sharp decline in the early years of the decade. Even so, the gain outpaced national growth. But the state continued to lose jobs from the high-paying manufacturing sector. "Since 1990, we've been losing about 15,000 manufacturing jobs a year on average," said Paul Kleppner, one of the NIU researchers on the report. "This time around, it was only 8,900, so that's something of an improvement." The loss of jobs in the high-paying information sector continued, with 2,000 jobs lost. Since 2001, there has been a nearly 21 percent loss of such jobs. Download entire article in PDF format.

One thing you won't have to worry about this Christmas is having to start the new year with a massive increase of H-1B visas. Despite an intense lobbying campaign by the likes of Bill Gates, Congress didn't pass an H-1B increase or any other escalation in immigration. Bill Gates started lobbying for the Skil bill months ago. He personally went to Washington D.C. twice, and an army of his paid K-Streeters swarmed Capitol Hill to buy votes. Bill Gates was so salient that the Skil Bill was nicknamed "Bill's Skil Bill". In addition Gates spent untold millions to sway Congress. Gates wasn't the only one to get slapped in the face. Hundreds of companies and dozens of think tanks, political action campaigns, and immigration lawyer groups failed to open the floodgates to cheap labor. Congress had one last chance to slip in an increase when both the House and Senate voted in favor of the "United States-India Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Act", which I call "Nukes for Mangos". There was an attempt to attach an H-1B increase to this bill but that too failed. It's time to celebrate! Download combined stories from Rob Sanchez, Job Destruction Newsletter and Roy Beck, NumbersUSA in PDF format

"Why is Congress now poised to accede to the industry's demands on H-1B visa quotas? As the saying goes, "Follow the money." As Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, said after Congress enacted the H-1B program expansion in 2000, "There were, in fact, a whole lot of [members of Congress] against it, but because they are tapping the high-tech community for campaign contributions, they don't want to admit that in public." Meanwhile, a reasonable H-1B reform bill by New Jersey Rep. Bill Pascrell is being ignored, not only by the Republicans but also by his fellow Democrats." Download entire opinion by Dr. Norman Matloff in PDF format.

"It wasn't immediately clear whether the Chinese purchaser intends to continue using Hoover's manufacturing operations in the United States, the largest of which is a 850-employee unionized factory in North Canton, Ohio." Download complete article in PDF format.

"High inside congressional sources have just informed our Capitol Hill Team that Sen. Cornyn (R-TX) appears to be on the edge of negotiating an agreement to allow him to slip a bill through the Senate (maybe tonight -- maybe tomorrow) that would entail a gigantic increase in 3-year H-1B visas for tech and other skilled foreign workers and more than a doubling of annual permanent employment-based green cards! Call Listed Senators NOW! Download complete Newsletter from Rob Sanchez, in PDF format. Capitol Switchboard 202-224-3121

"Unless communities demand their congressional representatives add protections to our national trade policy to make sure our workers are not forced to compete with slave labor, middle America will not benefit from the "flat" world, but rather will be flattened altogether." Download entire article in PDF format.

Turki, the Saudi ambassador, said the bilateral education effort grew out of the April 2005 meeting between President Bush and King Abdullah, then the crown prince, in Crawford, Tex., when the two "agreed that they would encourage more Saudis to come to the United States," whether as students, business people or medical patients." Download article from Washington Post in PDF format.

The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) website allows people to change the text of the message, so if you want to have some fun, and mess with their heads a little, go to this page, and send your anti H-1B support message to your members of Congress. Download the latest "Job Destruction Newsletter" and follow the instructions at end of Newsletter and send your personal message to this "Lame Duck Congress" NOW!

"I admit to being, among many other things, a proponent of populism. But I do believe my critics should look up the definition before they sling the word at me like a filthy epithet. On second thought, it may be to them, because a populist is, after all, nothing more than "a supporter of the rights and the power of the people." In fact, I'm a damn proud populist." Download entire opinion by Lou Dobbs in PDF format.

"..that before raising the H-1B cap there should be reform of the H-1B system,” said Ronil Hira, vice president for career activities at IEEE-USA, a professional organization representing engineers and computer programmers. The organization, which includes many immigrants among its ranks, is not opposed to legal immigration. But Mr. Hira said that the H-1B visa program, which requires companies to pay foreign workers wages comparable to those they pay American workers, was riddled with loopholes that allow employers to pay subpar wages to immigrants. That, in turn, depresses the wages of American workers, Mr. Hira said." Download entire article in PDF format.(NOTE: BEWARE OF THE "NEW MAJORITY" IN CONGRESS ON THIS ISSUE!)

Download an article how the United Steel Workers Union disrupted an employer's plan to offshore a union members health care to India.

"Free trade" and "globalization" are the guises behind which class war is being conducted against the middle class by both political parties. Patrick J. Buchanan, a three-time contender for the presidential nomination, put it well when he wrote (March 10, 2006, World Net Daily column:) that NAFTA and the various so-called trade agreements were never trade deals. The agreements were enabling acts that enabled U.S. corporations to dump their American workers, avoid Social Security taxes, health care and pensions, and move their factories offshore to locations where labor is cheap." Download entire article by Paul Craig Roberts in PDF format.

"It's a largely hidden problem, this quiet erosion of the middle class. While the chronically poor have been highlighted by the living-wage movement, downwardly mobile members of the middle class get short shrift, even from people of conscience. True, the college educated are a relative elite, constituting 28 percent of the population and earning, on average, a lifetime total of $1 million more than those who lack a degree. But the middle class has been roiled in recent years by what the economists call "income volatility," or sudden changes in fortune, usually caused by layoffs. The discarded shrink off in shame--after all, they must have done something wrong--and vanish from the unemployment statistics by going to Circuit City or Starbucks and taking whatever job they can get. To acknowledge their existence would be to admit that the "knowledge economy" is a delusion and to raise a rude finger in the face of the American dream." Download entire article from "The Nation", in PDF format.

"In the Indian outsourcing industry, attracting and retaining staff is critical to keeping the business growing. To keep its staff, Infosys Technologies pays them the same or, at times, better than the rest of the outsourcing industry in India, and has set up large state-of-the-art facilities that pamper the staff with on-campus beauty salons, shopping arcades, subsidized restaurants, jogging tracks, and large gyms. The job also gives staff an opportunity to be posted abroad, which is a key attraction for a lot of Indian staff. Infosys, like other Indian outsourcing companies, does not have a trade union. The company does not encourage unions, nor have the employees shown any inclination to unionize. Part of the reason is that salaries in the Indian outsourcing industry are already far higher than in other sectors of the Indian economy." Download complete article in PDF format.

"Attorney Frank Nelson is advising companies to break the law in order to circumvent the yearly cap on H-1B visas. Of course like most of our immigration laws, there is almost no enforcement and therefore almost no compliance." Download entire Job Destruction Newsletter by Rob Sanchez, in PDF format. NOTE: Readers may contribute online to fund Rob's excellent Newsletter at the bottom of page three.

The Communications Workers of America, several Indian worker organizations and Jobs with Justice have released a first-ever analysis of the call center industry as it affects workers in India and the United States. The report: a "Bi-National Perspective on Offshore Outsourcing: a Collaboration Between Indian and U.S. Labour," provides a detailed look at the phenomenon of offshore outsourcing and its impact on call center workers in India and the United States, who are linked through the growing globalization of this work. Download a summary and copy of the full report, in PDF format.

"The Department of Defense (DoD) is making revolutionary changes to the security guidelines for foreigners working on high-security contracts. At risk: national security—and American workers. Soon, rules will be loosened for foreign scientists and engineers. As a result, foreigners won't have to meet many of the security requirements that have been in place for decades. These radical procedural changes are implemented administratively by bureaucrats who operate outside of the public eye and beyond the purview of Congress.You can send our own comments on the policy proposal no later than October 13, 2006, by going to the Regulations.gov portal. At that website you can click an icon to send a comment and there is another for reading comments. You can also send an e-mail but be sure to (include "DFARS Case 2004-D010" in the subject line). The portal page also gives options for fax, mail, or hand delivering. Last year DFARS answered all of the comments so your input will definitely be considered." Download PDF file for entire article by Rob Sanchez with link to DoD to suubmit your comments.

The GAO found, as Commerce analysts did before them, that offshoring continues to increase in both the semiconductor and software industries. House Science Committee Ranking Member Rep. Bart Gordon (D-TN) offered the following comment on the new GAO report: "Offshoring is moving up the technological food chain with more sophisticated jobs and facilities going overseas. For workers this translates into flat job growth and stagnant wages, which is hard on American families and our ommunities. We need to find ways for American workers to compete in the world economy without sacrificing their standard of living. "I applaud the GAO for initiating this study and would welcome additional studies on offshoring trends and their impact on the U.S. workforce. What has been a disappointment to me is the Administration’s and the Republican Congressional Leadership’s lack of interest in understanding what is happening to working Americans. Without that understanding, we cannot develop effective solutions to keep high-wage, high-tech jobs in the United States." Download complete comments and PDF copy of the September 2006 GAO Report.

"Private tutors are a luxury many American families cannot afford, costing anywhere between $25 to $100 an hour. But California mother Denise Robison found one online for $2.50 an hour -- in India." Download entire article in PDF format.

AT&T last week proudly trumpeted the fact that it would end arrangements under which it outsources certain customer-service functions to low-cost, offshore providers. But company insiders claim the telecom company is shipping out significantly more U.S. jobs than it's bringing back and is set to dramatically increase its use of India-based labor. Download entire story in PDF format.

U.S. industry spokespeople say repeatedly that H-1B visa holders are paid the same wages as similarly qualified American citizens. Numerous studies and reports, however, have found this to be untrue. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Vice President Phiroz Vandrevala even admitted that his company enjoys a competitive advantage because of its extensive use of foreign workers in the United States on H-1B and L-1 visas. "Our wage per employee is 20-25 percent lesser than US wage for a similar employee," Vandrevala said. "Typically, for a TCS employee with five years experience, the annual cost to the company is $60,000-70,000, while a local American employee might cost $80,000-100,000. Download entire article in PDF format.

These are trying times for U.S. labor unions. Their strength is on the wane. There are many reasons why. One reason is a fierce attack by employers and the federal government. Some of the attacks are harder to see than others. A provision in the recently passed Senate immigration reform bill expands the number of foreign nurses who may work in the U.S. Lifting this cap on immigration is the idea of Sen. Sam Brownback, a Kansas Republican, and backed by the American Hospital Association. The AHA represents hospitals, health care networks and systems. Since the 1990 federal election cycle, the AHA has spent just under $13 million, split about evenly between Democrats and Republicans, to lobby candidates, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Download entire article by Seth Sandronsky and candid insight from Rob Sanchez, Job Destruction Newsletter, in PDF format.

Governor Edward G. Rendell announced today that the commonwealth is taking a new step to ensure that the state is using its resources to support and sustain domestic jobs and promote economic development. The Governor signed an executive order encouraging state contractors to use American workers rather than outsourcing operations overseas. Download entire story in PDF format.

The hack of AT&T's Web site is yet another string of data thefts where a third party vendor dropped the security ball. (Others of recent note include the Dept. of Veteran Affairs and Chevron.) In this case, the breach occurred "not within AT&T's own system but at 'an AT&T vendor that operates an order processing computer' for the online DSL store," Lazarus writes. The names of the vendor was not disclosed. Download two articles about the security breach in PDF format.

India’s economic advancement no longer rests on telephone call centers and computer programmers. Among villages with thatch-roofed huts and dirt roads on the outskirts of this city in central India, John Deere and LG Electronics have recently built factories turning out tractors and color television sets for sale in India and for export to the United States. In Hazira, in northwestern India, where some residents still rely on camels to carry traders’ goods, the Essar Group is making steel to be used for ventilation shafts in Philadelphia, high-rise structural beams in Chicago and car engine mountings in Detroit. Download entire article in PDF format.

Siemens isn't the only company to use a guest worker program to send some of its work out of the country. In the ongoing debate over immigration reform, Emmons and others say that while many worry that guest worker programs for low-skilled foreigners might affect the employment of American workers, tens of thousands of highly skilled foreign guest workers who already enter the country annually are having an impact now. The U.S. has a variety of guest worker programs. They are used to employ everybody from college professors to research scientists to farm workers to maids, cooks and waiters to truck drivers. The most commonly used program is the H-1B visa, a program designed to bring in highly skilled workers, largely computer programmers and high-tech professionals. Download entire article in PDF format.

TrendWatch Graphic Arts today released its special report, “Offshore Printing: The Market for Overseas Print Providers,” which quantifies the extent to which U.S. content creators are outsourcing their print work to overseas providers. The 135-page report pinpoints exactly who is outsourcing print work, who is increasing their outsourcing, and how much work is being outsourced. The report also looks ahead 12 to 18 months and provides a forecast by graphic arts market of how much print work will be sent overseas. Download entire article in PDF format.

"It was with some anxiety that I opened my copy of "Take This Job and Ship It": How Corporate Greed and Brain-Dead Politics Are Selling Out America," Sen. Byron Dorgan's just published populist manifesto. I was worried that, like most books of this genre, it would be a fluffy pastiche of excerpts from Senate floor speeches and op-ed articles, anecdotal rather than analytical.My fears were groundless. "Take This Job and Ship It" is a serious and important book, written by someone who knows as much about the practical workings of the international economy, and the way American legislation and politics shape that economy, as anyone alive. There is nothing slapdash or egotistical about this book." Download book review in PDF format.

Download a recent article from the McKinsey Quarterly about the offshoring of IT infrastructure machines and networks and the people who manage them, in PDF format.

"The police have arrested eight men from Mumbai, formerly Bombay, in connection with the attacks, though no specifics have been disclosed about their possible links to the bombings. Among them are a doctor of traditional Islamic medicine and a largely self-taught software worker who the police said had landed a job with the American database and software company Oracle." Download complete story in PDF format.

Job losses continue in industrial sectors across the U.S. with little response from the Federal Government, noted U.S. House Science Committee Ranking Member Rep. Bart Gordon (D-TN). Gordon and fellow Committee Democrats have sought to highlight this growing problem – known as “offshoring” – in an attempt to insure hard-working Americans are kept in the loop on the state of their jobs. Democrats’ efforts have centered on obtaining data compiled in 2004 by analysts at the Technology Administration (TA) within the Department of Commerce. That report, entitled An Overview of Workforce Globalization in the U.S. IT Services and Software, U.S. Semiconductor and the U.S. Pharmaceuticals Industries, provided an in-depth analysis of the ongoing loss of U.S. high-tech jobs and represents the most complete analysis to date on offshoring of U.S. jobs. Until today, the TA analysts' report has never been publicly released. Today we are making available the executive summary and, for comparison purposes, the twelve-page "six-month assessment" the Department of Commerce released last September. Download new summary report from Democratic committee members website. Link to their site is at the very bottom of page 3 of this PDF file.

The following is from a Rob Sanchez Newsletter: "In November of 2004 the omnibus spending bill passed, and with it an amendment dubbed the "L-1 Visa and H-1B Visa Reform Act of 2004". The "reform" part of H-1B raised the number of visas that could be issued. International students who earn a Masters or PhD in the U.S. are now eligible to use an H-1B visa that is exempted from the cap. Exemptions of this type have been estimated to be approximately 20,000 per year so effectively the yearly cap was raised from 65,000 to 85,000. The USCIS recently sent out a press release that all of the 20,000 exemptions were gobbled up for fiscal year 2007. The official count of 85,000 H-1Bs doesn't tell the entire story though because additional exemptions will be issued if the alien will be employed at an institution of higher education or a related or affiliated non-profit entity, or at a non-profit research organization or a governmental research organization (like Los Alamos or Lawrence Livermore labs for example). No official count has been made of the total H-1B visas that will be issued in 2007 with all exemptions included. The fact that every visa has been taken will be used as a reason to push the Skil bill along with its massive increase in the H-1B cap. Expect to see a deluge of articles in the mainstream media that use the following rationale: "The fact that employers have used all of the visas is proof that the yearly cap needs to be raised." Download USCIS Press Release in PDF format.

"After nearly two years, Manufacturing & Technology News has obtained a copy of the elusive Commerce Department report on offshore outsourcing of high tech jobs in the information technology, semiconductor and pharmaceutical industries. The report, which was required by an Act of Congress, was to be submitted to Congress in July 2004. But it was never released, due to fears within the Bush administration that the controversial subject would hurt the president's re-election campaign. Senior officials in the Bush administration, including the head of the Council of Economic Advisors, had publicly embarrassed the Bush team with cavalier statements describing offshore outsourcing of high tech jobs as being good for the U.S. economy." Download entire article in PDF format.

"When the H-1B program is completely explained to American voters, they are horrified. However, program expansions were procured by opportunistic companies such as Microsoft, who starting in 1998, paid lobbyists Jack Abramoff and Ralph Reed to collaborate with former Rep. Tom DeLay for expansion. Contrary to federal law, things of value were exchanged for official acts." Download entire LTE by Dr. Gene Nelson, Ph.D. in response to an opinion article written by reporter Bob Mims of the Salt Lake Tribune, in PDF format.

Download PDF copy of Kim Berry, President of the Programmers Guild,letter requesting that the DOL FLC data center export the FY 2007 LCA data to an access database.

"During the last dozen years, many foreign manufacturers rushed to build factories in states like Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee, inspiring the sobriquet Detroit South. Now Mexico is eyeing that nickname." Download entire article in PDF format.

Computerworld) In four short years, the current class of college freshmen will be scouting for jobs. In four short years, a significant percentage of the working population will reach retirement age. In four short years, the makeup of the U.S. Congress and the White House will have changed. Download complete article with links to Special Report by ComputerWorld, in PDF format.

"Despite the country's growing economy, 2.5 million Indian children die annually, accounting for one out of every five child deaths worldwide; and facilities for primary education have collapsed in large parts of the country (the official literacy rate of 61 percent includes many who can barely write their names). In the countryside, where 70 percent of India's population lives, the government has reported that about 100,000 farmers committed suicide between 1993 and 2003." Download NYT Op-Ed, in PDF format.

"It is time to rekindle the spirit of patriotism and encourage corporations that commit to America and American workers. The Patriot Corporations of America Act would do so by rewarding companies which invest in our nation's economic future. And, it would do so in a revenue neutral way." Introduced by U.S. Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, (D-Illinois). Download complete article in PDF format.

"A spokeswoman for the company said its Chinese sites also provide offshore services to customers from the west as part of EDS’ "best-shoring" global service delivery model. Sanjiv Gossain, UK vice-president at IT services provider Cognizant, said EDS is following the wider trend for IT outsourcers to invest in China to simultaneously serve the burgeoning Chinese market and gain additional low-cost development sites to fit into global delivery models. Download complete article, in PDF format.

"Immigrant engineers with H-1B visas may be earning up to 23 percent less on average than American engineers with similar jobs, according to documents filed with the U.S. Department of Labor. Salary data from Labor Condition Applications (LCAs) lends credence to arguments that lower compensation paid to H-1B workers suppresses the wages of other electronics professionals." Download complete article in PDF format.

Job growth in America's information technology sector has been significantly less robust than industry leaders have claimed, and fewer than one-quarter of the IT jobs lost during the early part of the decade have been recovered over the past three years, according to a new study released today by the nation's leading union of high-tech workers. With limited exceptions, the so-called "recovery" of the IT sector has been a jobless one, the study found, even though an economic recovery began more than five years ago. Link to download study.

Bank of America has been steadily moving thousands of tech jobs to India. The latest to go are about 100 positions that handle BofA's internal tech support. While many of the bank's Bay Area techies accept the inevitability of their jobs heading abroad, what rankles them is the fact that, in many cases, they're being told they have to first train the Indians who are getting their gigs. "If people want their severance packages, they have to train their replacements!" Download entire article by David Lazarus of the San Francisco Chronicle, in PDF format.

Costs are rising everywhere for American corporations, from energy to employee health insurance premiums. Yet in their drive to cut expenses, most notably by moving factories and call centers to other countries, they are overlooking the escalating cost of the executive suite. It's time to apply market logic to this disturbing trend and begin outsourcing chief executives. This measure would unlock tremendous value for shareholders. Download entire New York Times Op-Ed, in PDF Format

"IBM currently employs 43,000 workers in India, up from 23,000 just one year ago. At the same time, the Armonk, N.Y.-based company has been quietly trimming payrolls in the U.S., where its staff complement is now less than 150,000. IBM officials were not immediately available to comment on how plans for India would impact the U.S. operations." Download entire article, in PDF format.

"Engineering curriculums are demanding. The rewards to the effort are being squeezed out by jobs offshoring and work visas. If the current policy continues of substituting foreign engineers for American engineers, the profession will die in the US." Download article by Paul Craig Roberts, in PDF format.

"The protest is being coordinated by Rajiv Dabhadkar, founder of the "National Organisation for Software and Technology Professionals" (NOSTOP). Rajiv claims that NOSTOPS is a US based NGO. Their gripe has no merit because the H-1B program is intended to be used for TEMPORARY shortages of workers. If an H-1B loses his or her job, by definition they are no longer needed in the U.S. Allowing them to stay in the U.S. puts them in direct competition with unemployed Americans." Download entire Job Destruction Newsletter by Rob Sanchez, in PDF format.

The government has already reached the limit on high-tech worker visas for 2007 even though the fiscal year doesn't start until Oct. 1, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said Thursday. Download entire article and a copy of the Official Press Release from the USCIS, in PDF format.

There has been a 25 percent year-over-year increase in outsourcing plus an 18 percent year-over-year increase in the use of contracting in the IT industry, according to recent figures from Evans Data. Thirty-seven percent of North American companies are sending development offshore, as compared to only 17 percent in last year's survey. Download entire article in PDF format with live links to more information.

The key provision sought by technology companies was an expanded high-tech visa program. The controversial Senate immigration bill includes a provision raising the cap on H-1B visas for highly educated temporary workers to 115,000 per fiscal year. It also provides exemptions from both H-1B and employment-based, or "green card," visa caps for foreign workers with advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering or mathematics. Download entire story in PDF format.

“To some, IBM maybe a surprise leader since they are principally known as a technology innovator. Similarly firms like Sodexho and Aramark, who play substantial roles in outsourcing, aren’t always associated with this industry. Although outsourcing generates a fair amount of emotion and media coverage, the Global 100 ranking is the first three dimensional picture of this powerful and emerging industry.” Download complete story in PDF format.

The bill would essentially open the borders to high-skilled workers, as well as low-skilled workers. By increasing the annual cap of 65,000 to 115,000, automatically increasing the new cap by 20 percent each year the cap is hit, and creating a new exemption to new cap for anyone who has an "advanced degree in science, technology, engineering, or math" from any foreign university, the number of H-1B workers coming into the United States would undoubtedly escalate. The 20-year impact of this escalation could be anywhere from 1 million to 20.1 million. H-1B workers are eligible for green cards and would be allowed to stay and work in the United States for as long as it takes to process the green card application. Download entire article in PDF format.

Today the greed of CEOs and short-term shareholders is destroying the American middle class. Why pay an American to do a job that can be outsourced to a foreigner for far less cost or performed by a foreigner brought in on a H-1B or L-l visa. American organizations and their public relations operatives spread disinformation that there are shortages of engineers, nurses, schoolteachers, and so on in America, and that the need has to be met by bringing in foreigners at less pay. Offshoring of jobs and manufacturing are said to benefit Americans with lower prices, thus making them richer even as they lose their professional and middle class jobs. Download entire perspective by Paul Craig Roberts, in PDF format.

The Information Technology Professionals Association of America (ITPAA), a high-tech advocacy group based in Wilmington, Delaware has handed out its first Weasel Award of 2006 to Senate hopeful Harris Miller (Democrat) of Virginia. The organization, representing over 1,200 professionals nationally, presents the award to business and political leaders that it believes betrays the trust of the American people and threatens America’s standing in the technology sector. Download entire Press Release in PDF format.

China still has a long way to catch up before it can compete with India in the offshore outsourcing market because of its lack of English language skills. Sawhney said: "Going forward, in the next decade China will move from manufacturing to services. But being able to speak English is one thing. Being able to think it is another." Download entire article in PDF format.

David Huber, who calls himself "an American citizen and an engineer whose life has been devastated by that program," gave moving testimony against H-1B visas on March 30 to a House subcommittee on immigration. He said that despite strong credentials he lost two jobs to foreigners who were willing to work for much less than he had earned. "Between the summer of 2002 and January 2006, I had only worked for a total of about 6.5 months," Mr. Huber said. "I fully depleted my savings, and was nearly homeless on two or three occasions." Download complete article in PDF format.

A consultant who has analyzed reams of government data says the H-1B visa program is not only being used to undercut the salaries of American computer programmers, it's also part of a larger effort to offshore U.S. high-tech jobs to other countries. Nine out of the 10 top companies requesting permission to file for H-1B visas are offshoring companies, according to John Miano, a consultant for Colosseum Builders, Inc. and the author of The Bottom of the Pay Scale -- Wages for H-1B Computer Programmers, 2004, a report done for the Center for Immigration Studies. His report also shows that non-U.S. programmers working here on H-1B visas are paid less than their American counterparts -- $13,000 less. Download entire article in PDF format.

Download Senator Obama's response to my letter regarding increases to the H-1B Caps, in PDF format.

Courtney said he found that few people understand the facts. "Is there really a worker shortage? That argument works because the high-tech industry, in the person of Bill Gates, runs around saying it," he said. "So Congress now thinks this is true. But they don't have any basis for this, no numbers, no facts." He noted that several studies have shown that H-1B visa workers — who are allowed to work in the U.S. for up to six years — earn substantially less than American tech workers; and further, the program has caused an increase in unemployment among American workers. Download complete article in PDF format.

"Mr. Chairman and distinguished members of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Claims, my name is David Huber and I am an Information Technology Network Professional who has first-hand experience with the H-1B visa program. I am here, not as an expert on how the H-1B program is supposed to work. I am not an economist who can recite all of the benefits the H-1B program is supposed to be bringing to our country. Rather, I am here today as an American citizen and an engineer whose life has been devastated by that program." Download entire transcript of David Huber's testimony given to the House Judiciary sub-committee on March 30, 2006, in PDF format. David is a member of IllinoisTechsUnite.

Two years ago, the U.S. Department of Commerce's Technology Administration (TA) arm undertook a high-level study on the impact of offshore outsourcing to the U.S. economy and to American workers. The study, which came in at 200 pages and cost $335,000 in U.S. taxpayer money, was subsequently not released to Congress. All that emerged was a twelve-page synopsis. Now a number of Democrats on the House Science Committee have introduced a resolution (717) designed to make the Secretary of Commerce disclose the entire report to Congress. That resolution is being considered by the full House Science Committee this morning. Download complete story and copy of the twelve page synopsis, in PDF format.

As states and the federal government have sought to streamline and improve administrative processes and take advantage of technological advances, both have outsourced certain functions to private firms. In some cases, these firms have used offshore resources to perform these functions. As a result, questions have been raised about the prevalence of offshoring in federal human services programs. In response to widespread congressional interest, we conducted work under the Comptroller General's authority to determine (1) the occurrence and nature of offshoring, (2) the benefits state agencies have achieved through offshoring and problems they have encountered, and (3) the actions, if any, states and the federal government have taken to limit offshoring and why. We examined four federally-funded state-administered programs--Child Support Enforcement, Food Stamp, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), and Unemployment Insurance--and two federally-administered programs that provide student financial aid--Pell Grant and Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL). The Departments of Agriculture, Education, Health and Human Services, and Labor did not have comments on this report. Download GAO report issued on March 28, 2006, in PDF format.

"But the third leg — economic — has been fractured since the Cold War. We intentionally gave up our production and market to defeat communism. Instead of repairing the fracture at "the fall of the wall," we responded to the call of "free trade." In the beginning, we were told that free trade was the way to open markets — without tariffs or barriers, the United States would open markets for its vast production, increasing jobs. But when jobs and manufacturing were lost, we were told: "Don't fret, the United States is moving from hard manufacture to a service economy." Filthy smokestacks were for other countries. When service jobs hemorrhaged to India, the transnationals then cried "free trade" for high technology and higher-paying jobs. Then, with a deficit in the balance of high-tech trade with China, the scavengers of our economic strength shout: "Globalization — the world is flat!" "One can produce anything, anywhere. Globalization costs jobs, but the consumer is rewarded with lower prices. The United States must compete with education. We need engineers." But there are no jobs for the educated, or for engineers. China graduates 350,000 engineers a year, and American industry is outsourcing engineering jobs as fast as it can to India. George W. Bush has just returned from India pledging U.S. nuclear power that will accelerate outsourcing to India. Moreover, the Thailand doctor performs the same operation at one-eighth the cost of the American doctor. And high-tech jobs in this country are being filled with H1-B visas." Download entire opinion written by Former U.S. Senator Ernest C. Hollings (D-South Carolina) in PDF format.

A U.S. House Judiciary Sub-Committee Oversight Hearing is scheduled for Thursday 03/30/2006 - 9:00 AM 2141 Rayburn House Office Building Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims. IllinoisTechsUnite member David Huber is scheduled to testify. Download for more information.

"As long as we don't question the source of the inexpensive clothing we wear, as long as we don't wonder about the children in those third world factories who make the inexpensive toys we buy for our own children, those fires will occur and young girls and boys will continue to die. They won't die because of natural catastrophes like monsoons and earthquakes; they will die because it has become our national habit to outsource, and these days we outsource our tragedies, too." Katharine Weber is the author of the forthcoming novel "Triangle." Download entire New York Times Op-Ed in PDF format.

Outsourcing middle income jobs overseas is devastating for REITs, institutional and individual office and industrial building owners, a leading expert in corporate site selection told a news conference at National Manufacturer’s Week. A new study revealed three consequences of outsourcing that impact US real estate: More than $1.2 billion in office rent is lost annually due to jobs shipped abroad 8,500 manufacturing plants, on average, close annually due to outsourcing. Approximately 54 million square feet of office space—the equivalent of one-third of the Chicago central business district—goes “dark” every year as a result of outsourcing. Download complete story and an Executive Summary of the study in PDF format.

Florida state employees are being warned that their personal information may have been compromised after work on the state's People First payroll and human resources system was improperly subcontracted to a company in India. Download complete story in PDF format.

Congress is contemplating legislation that would allow up to 600,000 skilled professional guest workers to enter the U.S. in a single year. This would be the biggest one time expansion of the controversial H-1B visa program to date. TAKE ACTION TODAY!

Speaking to the Silicon Valley Leadership Group in San Jose, Feinstein said she will support an increase in the H1B because "we have to ensure that we have the best and the brightest people here," she said. A total of 65,000 are allowed the current fiscal year, which began in October. That number was filled by last August, and executives from technology and other companies have been calling for more. Download complete article in PDF format. Does Senator Feinstein believe there are not enough "bright" people in California?

"..most of the hiring will be made at the company's call centers, there will also be substantial recruitment at its product testing center and a possible manufacturing plant." Download complete story in PDF format.

Marchese Partners Architects has found that the Chinese and Indonesian companies it uses to prepare the detailed drawings for major Australian residential projects now have an understanding of local regulations and client requirements that was missing in the past. Basic drawings are 80 per cent completed overseas, with final details added at the company's Sydney office. "The cost difference is significant. It certainly makes it worthwhile," Marchese general manager Steve Zappia says. Download entire article in PDF format.

American workers at all levels are vulnerable to outsourcing, experts say, posing a challenge to the assumption that more schooling is the answer. The president's assertion that the answer to foreign outsourcing is education, a mantra embraced by Democrats as well as Republicans, is being challenged by a growing body of research and analysis from economists and other scholars. Education - at least as delivered by most of the nation's colleges, universities and technical schools - is no longer quite the economic cure-all it once was, nor the guarantee of financial security Americans have come to expect from college and graduate degrees. Download entire article in PDF format.

While the president was in India promoting the corporate offshoring agenda on behalf of Republican leaders in Congress he said the following:"But the fundamental question is, how does a government or society react to that? And it's basically one of two ways. One is to say, losing jobs is painful, therefore, let's throw up protectionist walls. And the other is to say, losing jobs is painful, so let's make sure people are educated so they can find — fill the jobs of the 21st century."This back-peddling and lip service provides the most valuable piece of information we could ask for out of Republican leaders. They don't have a clue on how to drive an economy that benefits all people and will say anything to get a vote. They're counting on people not educating themselves about these issues and just taking politicians at their word. When their words and actions conflict as much as the current Republican leadership in Congress and the White House, one is left with only one solution; it's time to introduce these leaders what offshoring really feels like. Download CWA Fact Sheet in PDF format.

"Internal Microsoft documents obtained by WashTech News show that Microsoft salaries have been stagnant or nudged only slightly higher over the past two years. Comments from current and former employees about the company’s compensation and performance review system suggest a growing level of frustration among rank-and-file workers." Is it time for a UNION WORKFORCE at Microsoft? Download entire article in PDF format.

"American employees have been abandoned by American corporations and by their representatives in Congress. America remains a land of opportunity—but for foreigners—not for the native born. A country whose work force is concentrated in domestic nontradable services has no need for scientists and engineers and no need for universities. Even the projected jobs in nursing and school teachers can be filled by foreigners on H-1B visas.The United States is the first country in history to sell out and to destroy the prospects and living standards of its labor force. It is amazing to watch freedom-loving libertarians and free-market economists serve as full time apologists for the dismantling of the ladders of upward mobility that made the America of old an opportunity society. America has begun a polarization into rich and poor. The resulting political instability and social strife will be terrible." Download entire article by Paul Craig Roberts in PDF format.

The president said the United States should see this rapidly growing nation as a land of opportunity instead of a threat. America's best response to globalization is not to erect economic barriers to protect workers, but educate them to make sure they can compete on any stage, Bush said. "In my country, some focus only on one aspect of our trade relations with India — outsourcing," he said. Download entire story in PDF format.

A disturbing new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office shows that Uncle Sam is joining many Fortune 500 companies in the offshoring act. GAO auditors found that in government contracting - which comprises a staggering 19 percent of the national economy - there are almost no restrictions on the type of work that can be sent overseas. Furthermore, the report states the Department of Defense does not require even the managers of our nation's major weapon systems programs to "identify or manage potential security risks from foreign suppliers." Download entire article in PDF format.

First came IT outsourcing. Now comes investment banking. After years of outsourcing technology support and other back-office operations to countries like India and China, financial institutions are increasingly looking to move large portions of their investment banking operations abroad, according to a recent report by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. Download entire article in PDF format.

MUMBAI, India—India could be home to the world's dominant IT firms in 20 years–IF. That was the theme of a panel discussion during the first day of the Nasscom 2006 conference here. Arun Maira, chairman of the Boston Consulting Group, India, said that India could do in IT what the Japanese have done in the automobile industry, displacing American IT powerhouses just as Japan's car makers have superseded Detroit automakers as the world's leaders. "Indian companies are low-cost and small just like the Japanese were," said Maira. Download complete article in PDF format.

"Software companies appear to be using the L visa to get around H quotas," one consular post in Southeast Asia told investigators. State Department officials often are called upon to double-check information abroad. L visas have proven attractive for technology companies -- and particularly firms that outsource labor to India. Nearly 50 percent of the petitions received under the "specialized knowledge" category in fiscal 2005 were for people born in India. Download entire article in PDF format

Looks like the Indian owned bodyshop is in big trouble. This time it's Tata's own nonimmigrant visa holders that are filing the lawsuit. The complaint titled "Gopi Vedachalam vs. Tata International", alleges that Tata bilked their nonimmigrant workers by withholding too much US and state income tax. Plaintiff Gopi Vedachalam is an L-1 visa holder from India who worked as project manager for Target in California. He transferred to the U.S. from Tata-India to Tata-America and then was contracted to Target. If you wonder why we call companies like Tata bodyshops, this is a perfect example. Rep.Bill Pascrell's bill ("Defend the American Dream Act of 2005" or H.R. 4378) would make it much more difficult for bodyshops to use L-1 visas in this fashion. Download entire newsletter from Rob Sanchez in PDF format.

Mohammed Omran, CEO of the newly created Egyptian government-funded Information Technology Industry Development Agency (Itida), said: "One of the key challenges is for Egypt to develop our own expertise in order to be able to compete with the world's outsourcing companies... and compete against India, Ireland and eastern Europe." Download entire article in PDF format.

On Friday Feb. 3 the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the nonfarm payroll jobs report for January. New York Times reporter Vikas Bajaj wrote an upbeat news story, obviously based on a Labor Department press release rather than any study of the BLS report. If the rosy view of Ethan Harris, chief economist for Lehman Brothers is typical, Wall Street has no more idea than Bajaj of what the jobs report really says. Americans are not being told the truth about anything, not about Iraq, not about Iran, not about terrorism, and not about the disastrous state of their economy. The information is available, but the people have no way of finding out about the economy if they are not trained economists with some knowledge of the data (except by watching Lou Dobbs on TV). Few economists themselves will tell them, because if they do they will lose their corporate and government grants. It is not in the corporations’ interest or the Bush administration’s interest for Americans to know what is happening to them. Download entire opinion article by Paul Craig Roberts in PDF format

The H-1B hiring program circumvents Equal Opportunity laws. It allows companies to narrow the applicant pool for 85,000 job openings to only citizens from abroad each year. The program never asks companies to verify that the job opening was competed under EEOC guidelines, nor does it require that companies seek US residents. But a bill just introduced by Bill Pascrell (D-NJ and Maxine Waters (D-CA) will change all that. Citizens and green card holders will be able to apply for these job openings. We have a unique opportunity in Illinois. Senator Durbin is willing to submit mirror legislation in the Senate to reform this program. Would you and your organization join him in this effort? The letter we are signing is attached. Contact me, Donna Conroy if you would like to be part of this effort.

It sure didn't take long after Bush did his State of the Union message to come out swinging for more H-1B visas. Bush thinks that there aren't enough bright Americans to fill the available jobs. He should speak for himself. The following is a quote from his speech today in Maplewood, Minnesota. ..."And so one way to deal with this problem, and probably the most effective way, is to recognize that there's a lot of bright engineers and chemists and physicists from other lands that are either educated here, or received an education elsewhere but want to work here. And they come here under a program called H1B visas. And the problem is, is that Congress has limited the number of H1B visas that can come and apply for a job -- a H1B visa holder can apply for a job at 3M. I think it's a mistake not to encourage more really bright folks who can fill the jobs that are having trouble being filled here in America -- to limit their number. And so I call upon Congress to be realistic and reasonable and raise that cap. We'll educate our kids. That's the goal. Of course, we want every job that's ever generated in America filled by Americans, but that's not the reality today. In order for 3M to remain competitive, in order for this job base to remain strong, in order for us to be a leader in innovation, we got to be wise about letting kids come here who've got the skill sets needed to fill the jobs that help us remain the leader in the world." Download complete text of Bush's speech in PDF format.

"The fundamental issue has always been employment security," said Charles Bofferding, executive director of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace. "Outsourcing is seen as an attack on employment security. Fundamentally, the issue of employment security has not gone away. But because of the global economy, it's hard to say you're anti-outsourcing." Download complete article in PDF format.

BANGALORE: What better proof about the acceptance of outsourcing as a business model than the India visit of John Kerry, the US presidential candidate for 2004, whose poll plank was based on his anti-outsourcing stand? It now seems as if John Kerry has had to eat crow. Kerry clarified his stand last week in Hyderabad, saying he was “misrepresented” by the media about his views on outsourcing. Download entire story in PDF format.

ORLANDO -- All oars went into the water this week at the inaugural Homeland Security for Networked Industries conference in Orlando, Fla., as representatives from the government, communications, transportation and utility sectors came together to discuss the need for collaboratively securing the nation’s infrastructure. Download entire article in PDF format.

Two U.S. representatives from North Jersey said last week that they have taken up the cause of the displaced American workers with legislation that would close loopholes in the visa programs. Rep. Bill Pascrell, D-Paterson, has filed legislation that would address issues with the H-1B visa program, and Rep. Rodney P. Frelinghuysen, R-Harding, is co-sponsor of a bill that would make changes in the administration of the L-1 visa program. Download entire article in PDF format.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A federal judge in El Paso has entered an order ending a lawsuit filed by Spanish-speaking workers who lost their jobs in the wake of NAFTA and sued the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) because they were not provided the vocational training promised by Congress in the Trade Act. The order provides that the federal court will enforce the parties’ settlement agreement, ending three years of litigation that involved federal courts in Washington, D.C., and El Paso. Download entire Press Release with link to settlement agreement.

CIGNA HealthCare said Friday it will lay off 109 service employees nationwide, including 56 in Bloomfield, as it outsources the work offshore, another expense-cutting move in the company's ongoing turnaround effort.The employees were notified Friday that their jobs will be eliminated during the first half of this year as the work is sent to the Philippines through a vendor, Accenture. Download complete story in PDF format.

Millions of SBC Yahoo Internet customers received e-mails this week alerting them to changes in their contract, including "legal and billing-related issues." A link from the e-mail to SBC Yahoo's terms of service produces a nearly 14,000-word document jam-packed with fine print and legalese. There's no indication anywhere as to what may or may not be new. This was a red flag for numerous SBC Yahoo customers, who contacted me wanting to know whether they should be concerned. They shouldn't be (unless, as you'll see, they're members of al Qaeda). But SBC Yahoo gets no points for helping people understand this for themselves. I started my hunt for answers by doing what many SBC Yahoo customers would do: I initiated an online chat with the customer-service department, which is in India. Download complete article in PDF format.

This report examines the wage data in Labor Department records for Fiscal Year 2004. It compares wages in approved Labor Condition Applications (LCAs) for H-1B workers in computer programming occupations to wage levels of U.S. workers in the same occupation and location. The analysis demonstrates that, despite the H-1B prevailing-wage requirement, actual pay rates reported by employers of H-1B workers were significantly lower than those of American workers. These findings show that the implementation of the prevailing-wage requirement in the H-1B program does not ensure that H-1B workers are paid comparably to U.S. workers. Moreover, the data suggest that, rather than helping employers meet labor shortages or bring in workers with needed skills, as is often claimed by program users, the H-1B program is instead more often used by employers to import cheaper labor. Download complete report in PDF format.

Kathleen Chouinor got up from the sofa and returned from her bedroom clutching an Arizona driver's license and a Social Security card. Both documents were forgeries, Chouinor said, purchased on the black market in Phoenix for $150. "I went to the guy's house. He took my picture, and within two hours, I had my driver's license and Social," she said. The documents looked authentic enough to fool the manager of a large retail store in the northeast Valley. Chouinor had no trouble landing a job a year ago making $10 an hour as a salesperson. Download complete story in PDF format.

Vitek Wadhwa, Executive in Residence and Adjunct Professor, Master of Engineering Management Program, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University authored this report as part of an ongoing study to compare the number of U.S. engineering graduates to those in developing nations, particularly India and China. Download his report issued on December 12, 2005 in PDF format

Vivek Wadhwa, a founder of several tech startups and an occasional contributor to BusinessWeek Online who's now an executive in residence at Duke University says he got so disturbed by the anxieties of bright engineering students that he helped supervise a study released in December. The conclusion: Because of fuzzy definitions of "engineering graduate," estimates of Indian and Chinese numbers can be wildly exaggerated, while America's are understated. Download complete story in PDF format.

Police Commissioner Ajai Kumar Singh squarely blamed Hewlett Packard for the brutal killing. "There is a security lapse on the part of the company," he told reporters. Download complete story in PDF format.

Behind a wall of silence, companies are shifting high-skilled jobs to developing nations. But paying peanuts for an overseas helpdesk is not always a good call. Matt O'Sullivan reports. Download complete story in PDF format.

Computech Corp. late last month agreed to pay $2.65 million in back wages and fines to settle a U.S. Department of Labor complaint that it underpaid workers from overseas. The company, which is settling the dispute without admitting to any of the allegations, agreed to pay $2.25 million in back wages to employees in amounts ranging from less than $2,000 to more than $40,000. The settlement may be the largest back-wage payment ordered under the federal H-1B visa program, according to Brad Mitchell, a Labor Department spokesman. Download complete story in PDF format.

Dubbed Project Hercules, this network consolidation is part of a broader statewide initiative to eliminate redundant IT resources. During the past two years, Illinois has saved $210 million by improving IT governance through centralized purchasing, data center consolidation and shared services such as telecom networks. Download entire story in PDF format.

It may be the gravest challenge mounted by developing economies against the developed, but it will languish on the periphery of this week's trade talks in Hong Kong, silenced by the fury over fruits and vegetables. India, among the pioneers of outsourcing, is pressing wealthy countries to give services like call centers and offshore software development legal sanction that cannot be revoked. It is also urging them to make it easier for outsourcing companies to send employees to the West on temporary visits to manage customer relations and to sell, install, maintain and service their products. Download entire article in PDF format.

"We are told that Congress is working on immigration reform and border security. Instead, Congress is selling out American workers to please their corporate contributors." Download complete article in PDf format.

After India, the Philippines is the second-largest recipient of outsourcing by US corporations, capturing some 30 per cent of the market, according to a recent Columbia University survey. At present, the Philippines outsourcing industry employs 132,000 workers in 120 firms, mostly call centers, according to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). From 2006 to 2010, the DTI sees the industry employing an additional 668,000 Filipino workers, with call centers alone fully engaging an incremental 400,000. Download entire article in PDF format.

"On every infrastructure front, India has fallen well behind China, although debate over whether the blame for that lies with democracy or just with India's short practice of it is an enduring Indian pastime. Having invested more than 10 times as much as India since the mid-1990's, China now has 15 times the expressway length." Download complete article in PDF format.

The firm is hiring between 300 and 400 graduates a month and plans to have a total work force of 9,000 in India by the end of 2007. About 3,000 of the new employees will work for the investment bank, and the rest will support the group's retail and commercial banking operations, including 2,000 call center workers. Download complete story in PDF format.

Wachovia, the nation's No. 4 bank by assets, has about 96,000 employees, about 19,000 in Charlotte. The company hasn't said how many jobs here will be lost to outsourcing, but the headquarters includes many technology and back-office tasks that can be done overseas. Download complete article in PDF format.

Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-8) announced the introduction of H.R. 4378, the "Defend the American Dream Act of 2005." His H-1B Visa reform bill will return American jobs to American workers. Download complete Press Release from Congressman Pascrell's website, in PDF format.

Americans don’t see virtual immigrants as they are working offshore in their home countries and communicating with their US employers via the Internet. Americans do not experience virtual immigration until their jobs are outsourced. Moreover, virtual immigrants have massive sources of American support: corporations that maximize profits by arbitraging labor and the politicians that they control, libertarians and “free traders” who see freedom and the invisible hand of the market working through virtual immigration, and “one world” globalists. Download entire article by Paul Craig Roberts, in PDF format.

Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., D-Paterson, will take up the fight for the American worker - and how that worker has changed over the years."We are talking about people who have high-tech degrees in one hand and pink slips in the other," Pascrell said Friday. "I'm going to do everything in my power to end that."Pascrell is scheduled to announce that he is introducing a comprehensive bill to reform the nation's H-1B visa program on the steps of the state Labor Department building in Paterson. Download entire article in PDF format.

The Coalition for the Future American Worker (CFAW) launched an educational TV campaign today to address the misconception that "foreign workers do jobs Americans won't do" and that Americans aren't affected by the massive flow of foreign workers into this country. Download today's Press Release, in PDF format.

The state hopes an outsourcing deal will modernize its IT infrastructure, save jobs, and spur development. All this, and the work stays local. Download entire article in PDF format.

Recent proposals by Northwest Airlines to outsource the jobs of at least 3,000 flight attendants that work on flights leaving U.S. airspace to non-union, foreign-nationals threatens all flight attendant jobs. If Northwest Airlines is successful in its efforts, then they will be the first domino to fall. We all know that all airlines will attempt to do the same thing - thereby risking untold thousands of our jobs.Not only does such a proposal threaten our jobs, but it also raises serious questions about the overall safety and security of our aviation system. TAKE ACTION TODAY!

Both the Senate and the House of Representatives’ version of the bill will have to be reconciled, which means that one common bill will have to be prepared before it can be sent to the US President for sanction. Negotiations in arriving at this common bill may affect some of the immigration-related provisions. The reconciliation process will provide, both pro-immigration and anti-immigration groups to lobby with lawmakers. Download complete story, in PDF format.

“Microsoft is once again running the show up there. The whole plan came from a Microsoft lobbyist whose colleagues are overpowering all the House and Senate leaders this week demanding that the tripling (maybe quadrupling) of employment-based green cards and H-1Bs goes through!” Added Beck, “This is a travesty for American students studying to enter scientific, engineering and high-tech fields, as well as to those Americans who have worked hard to become masters of their craft.” Download complete article, in PDF format.

Twice a week, 14-year-old Princeton John sits in front of the computer in his Glenview home, puts on a headset and gets ready for an hourlong tutoring session. What's different compared with scores of other online lessons offered is that Princeton's tutor is not even on this continent. She's 7,000 miles away -- working in the middle of the night -- in a suburb outside Cochin, India. For Princeton, a freshman at Glenbrook South High School, the quirk of having a tutor many time zones away faded long ago. Download entire article, in PDF format.

State officials on Friday began notifying 465,000 Georgians that they might be at risk of identity theft because of a government security breach detected in April. Asif Siddiqui, a native of Pakistan who had worked at the GTA for four years, was fired April 29 and arrested on felony charges of computer trespassing and theft. No trial date has been set. His lawyer has said Siddiqui did nothing wrong and was authorized to access the files. Download entire story, in PDF format.

Democrats aren't much better. They talk about education as the answer, but say little about the fact that college education is getting priced out of the reach of working families, or that poor kids who need the most help get the least -- overcrowded schools, the least experienced teachers, outdated textbooks, school buildings that are dangerous to their health. Working families have to wake up. We need a new movement, a new agenda, and new leadership. And with Delphi suggesting that Detroit is about to go down, we don't have much time. Download entire opinion article, in PDF format.

All but 10 of those arrested were employed by a maintenance and cafeteria services subcontractor, GCA Services Group of West Conshohocken, Pa.The others included professionals who allegedly lied about being U.S. citizens on their I-9, the form employers must fill out to certify that their employees are authorized to work. One is a Pakistani mathematician with several master's degrees who had been working legally for another company on an H-1B visa, but illegally switched employers. Download complete story, in PDF format.

The Commerce Department has responded to a half-year-old request by Manufacturing and Technology News for the release a long-awaited study on the issue of "offshore outsourcing" of IT service-sector jobs and high-tech industries. But the 12-page document represented by the agency as its final report is not what was written by its analysts. Rather, it was crafted by political appointees at Commerce and at the White House, according to those familiar with it. Download complete story, in PDF format.

Let's renew our commitment to investing in education. But let's also take action to preserve good jobs, and make sure that the jobs left over after globalization pay enough and have sufficient basic benefits for families to support themselves. Download complete article, in PDF format.

It is beyond time for all Americans to wake up from this nightmare and support those companies --- Costco, for example --- that believe that companies and their CEOs have as much responsibility to employees, customers, and the nation as to shareholders. And it is way beyond time for us to take our support away from those companies that believe otherwise and do more to aggrandize management than to serve employees and their communities. Download complete article, in PDF format.

The agency charged with interior immigration enforcement all but ignores going after illegal aliens in the workplace, the Government Accountability Office said in a report released yesterday. Between 1999 and 2003 the number of notices of an intent to fine employers for immigration law violations dropped from 417 to three. Download complete story and Highlights of GAO Report containing a link to the full report, in PDF format.

Money can be a powerful lure in India, where per capita income hovers around $500 a year and most people make much less toiling in dusty fields or on steaming city streets. Call center rookies, in contrast, make about $2,400 a year — about twice the pay of first-year teachers, accountants or lawyers — and work in air-conditioned offices, many of which have health clubs and well-stocked cafeterias. With experience, the salaries multiply. The easy money is on display every Friday evening in Bangalore, the industry's center, where young workers unwind after a week of work in the posh clubs and restaurants that have grown with the outsourcing business. As for complaints about working conditions, Ruchinder Singh, who works in the southern city of Hyderabad for GE Capital International, said he could take them straight to his company's chief executive. "When my CEO will listen to what I have to say, then why do I need a union?" asked Singh, who helps customers around the world use specialized software programs. Download entire article in PDF format.

Financial-services firms are expected to double the number of jobs located offshore within the next three years as they attempt to reap cost savings, according to a survey released Thursday By PricewaterhouseCoopers. Download entire story AND copy of the Survey in PDF format.

The Texas health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) awarded an $899 million contract to the Bermuda based Accenture and its SUBCONTRACTORS to operate call centers that will replace 100 offices and 3,562 workers in various Texas local communities. It's just a matter of time before Accenture will offshore these jobs. Download the attached PDF file for more information.

"Libertarians and free trade economists don't realize it, but they are pulling Marx out of his grave." Download entire article in PDF format.

Today's WSJ Editorial Page Opinion on "Jobs and Immigrants" states: "America needs more, not fewer workers from overseas." Download entire editorial, in PDF format.

With a new wave of white-collar offshoring coming fast on the heels of accelerated job losses in manufacturing, an ever-broader pool of American workers is finding that the nation's safety net has more holes than netting. The nation can and must do more to help insure the livelihoods of American workers in the face of structural shifts of whatever form, while preserving the benefits of an open and innovative economy. With technological change and offshoring accelerating job turnover and the pace at which workers' job-specific skills lose value, the time has come for the federal government to strengthen the existing safety net. Download entire Policy Brief from the Brookings Institute, in PDF format.

"US executives, with an eye to quarterly earnings and their bonuses, continue to spend considerable resources lobbying for increases in work visas that enable them to replace their American engineers, scientists, and technical people with lower cost foreigners. These executives lie through their teeth when they assert the lack of qualified Americans for the jobs. The fact of the matter is, the executives force their American employees to train their foreign replacements and then fire their American workers." Download complete article in PDF format.

For those that don't know about Matloff, visit his website immediately. His Debunking paper is so important it should be required reading FOR ALL LABOR ACTIVISTS. It would behoove all programmers and high-tech workers to read the entire paper if for any reason to find out more about what the future holds for their career. Yes, I know it's long, but it's not boring and you will see that Matloff has been writing for years about the education issue. He is very qualified to debunk the myths that Lou Dobbs seems to have bought from the shortage-shouters and shills. Click for link to website.

"The U.S. is by no means in technological decline, though China and India will inevitably pose challenges in years to come." Download complete article from The New Atlantic, in PDF format.

US-based communication solution company AT&T is in talks with Tata group-controlled Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL) for rolling out next generation network (NGN) products in India and will set up global network nodes in Hyderabad, Pune and Kolkata. Download complete story in PDF format.

AT&T announced the rollout of the state-of-the-art 'multi-protocol label switching' (MPLS)-based global communication network for TCS — the first large-scale deployment of an MPLS network for an Indian IT company. Download entire story in PDF format.

"What makes the two giants especially powerful, the article points out, is that they complement each other's strengths. Raising the question as to what happens if the two nations merge into one giant "chindia"? Download entire article in PDF format.

Eileen Appelbaum, an economist and member of a National Research Council committee that studied the impact of H-1Bs on the U.S. economy, does not accept the way the H-1B option is typically framed: One can have an H-1B worker in an American job, or lose that job to exportation."Industry said in 2001, "Let us have the H-1B visas and we'll do the work here, or you can say no and we'll just move the work offshore,' " she said. "Well, they got all the H-1Bs they wanted, and they still moved work offshore. In 2005, that's an argument industry can't make with a straight face." Download complete story in PDF format.

"Poverty is still a scourge in India. At least 200 million people earn less than $1 a day, when they can find work."... "Mahale owns the largest house in the village of Kharonda: an eight-room structure with brick walls and a red-tiled roof. Inside, the house boasts electricity, running water drawn by motor from the local well, satellite TV, a sofa set, and a large bed in the master bedroom. Last month, Mahale bought himself a motorcycle with one of the consumer loans so easily available in India these days. His wife, Sintar, a stately woman with a confident smile, helps her husband. Their income is now nearly $4,000 a year" Download BusinessWeek Online story, in PDF format.

During the last decade, a hot topic in Japan and America has been the "hollowing out" of their industrial bases. The share of Japanese-owned productive capacity located abroad has grown from 8% in 1994, to 40% today. The United States currently has just over 50% of its manufacturing base located offshore. Download complete article in PDF format.

Intuit Inc. is setting up a product development center in Bangalore, India, to take advantage of local programming talent and develop new product initiatives, the company announced Friday. The financial software vendor, based in Mountain View, California, did not disclose the size of its investment in the center or the number of staff it plans to hire there. Download complete story in PDF format.

-- India's leading software company, Infosys Technologies Ltd., said Thursday it will pump in US$65 million (euro53 million) and 6,000 new software engineers over the next five years to expand outsourcing operations in China. Download complete story in PDF format.

"U.S. workers have lost hundreds of thousands of jobs to countries with cheaper wages as technological change makes it easier for corporations to manage a multinational work force.From 2001 to 2003, Labor Department statistics show, 5.3 million Americans were displaced from jobs they had held for at least three years. As of January 2004, only 65 percent were re-employed, and 57 percent of those were earning less than in their previous positions." Download complete article in PDF format.

"We need to negotiate provisions for worker rights and the environment into these deals or expect to see continued outsourcing and offshoring. It would be insane to expect anthing different." Download complete article in PDF format.

"India's biggest software exporter plans to open a training center in Pakistan this fall, venturing across a heavily guarded border to launch the first formal joint venture between major companies from the rival nations. Fueled by U.S. companies outsourcing contracts to cheaper labor overseas, both India and Pakistan have seen tremendous growth in their IT sectors." Download complete story, in PDF format.

"India plans to become a global knowledge hub, with a central place in the transnational movement of knowledge services, according to the country's minister of commerce and industry. Outsourcing to areas where there are surpluses of educated and willing workers is about moving information and services, rather than people, across borders." Download complete story in PDF format.

"What US corporations and the free trade economists overlook is that giving Americans' jobs to foreigners raises foreign incomes and lowers American incomes." Download complete article in PDF format.

Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-Colorado) has introduced the comprehensive REAL GUEST ACT. The bill will create a temporary guest worker plan without offering amnesty and will enhance border security through increased technology and resources. Download a detailed summary of the Real Guest Act (H.R. 3333), in PDF format.

MCI's Global Enhanced Call Routing (ECR) allows international call center forwarding. "Global ECR gives multinational corporations the flexibility to establish contact centers where it makes the most economic and strategic sense," such as India and the Philippines, said Nancy Gofus, senior vice president of MCI IP Services. Download complete story in PDF format.

"In the Verizon situation, your credit card digits are displayed to first-tier customer support reps, people who are not in a "need to know" position regarding your credit card. Download complete article, in PDF format .

"We provide helpdesk support to users, and we compete with IT staffs in the U.S. One thing we are doing is bringing offshore staff on site for one to three months at 60% to 70% BELOW what other companies are paying locally." Download interview with Sam Wazan of Stripling & Beck based in Charlotte, NC, in PDF format.

"For some professionals who lost their jobs in the 2001 recession, weeks of unemployment have stretched into years, forcing them to take 'survival jobs'." Download report by Barbara Rose, Chicago Tribune Staff Reporter, in PDF format.

"What kind of country gives preference to foreigners over its own engineering graduates? What kind of country destroys the job market for its own citizens? How much longer will parents shell out $100,000 for a college education for a son or daughter who end up employed as a bartender, waitress or temp? Download article by Paul Craig Roberts, in PDF format.

"As demand for engineering grows, experts say India has only 10 to 30 percent of the qualified instructors it needs. While the jury is still out on the future implications of such engineering education problems for India's booming IT sector, questions have already been raised about the quality of Indian graduates in general." Download complete article by Nachammai Raman of The Christian Science Monitor, in PDF format.

"America has a new development model, one unprecedented in history. The growth and prosperity of American corporations is now keyed directly to the employment of foreign workers in place of Americans." Download complete article, in PDF format.

"From 2000 to 2015, an estimated three million American jobs will have been outsourced; one in 10 technology jobs will leave these shores by the end of this year. Stories like these have aroused a primal fear in the Western public: that they might soon need to line up outside the Indian Embassy for work visas and their children will have to learn Hindi." Download entire article, in PDF format.

Companies are getting hooked on the buying power of 11 million undocumented immigrants. Download Business Week Cover Story for the week of July 18, 2005, in PDF format.

The Programmers Guild urges Congress to create a visa category to attract the "best and brightest" foreign EMPLOYERS to the United States, on the condition that they EXCLUSIVELY HIRE UNEMPLOYED U.S. WORKERS for their IT slots. Download complete story and a "Draft" of the "Specialty Worker Protection Act of 2005", in PDF format.

"In a move that has significance for Indian professionals seeking work in the U.S., the Indian government has made a formal proposal to the WTO DEMANDING that the yearly quota of H-1B visas be INCREASED to 195,00 from the current ceiling of 65,000. Download complete story, in PDF format.

"The administration is playing politics with border security data..." said Congressman Tom Tancredo. "It is crucial that the American people know that their government is not letting politics get in the way of national security", he said. Download complete Press Release with links to Freedom of Information Border Patrol document entitled, "White House Talking Points", in PDF format.

There have been conflicting reports on the expected duration of the service disruptions caused by the damaged cable. The Press Trust of India, Reuters and Xinhua all reported that disruptions are anticipated to last for two weeks. Download complete story, in PDF format.

Gene A. Nelson, Ph.D., has been active in high-tech workforce issues for about two decades. He can be reached at c0030180@airmail.net. Download his excellent historical perspective of the H-1B Visa Program,in PDF format.

A statement signed by India's defense minister, Pranab Mukherjee, and the U.S. defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, in Washington on Tuesday night said that the United States and India had entered a "new era"... Mukherjee also "suggested that U.S. defense industries could OUTSOURCE SOME OF THEIR FUNCTIONS TO INDIA, in areas as repair, overhaul and servicing." Download complete story in PDF format.

This paper is by Cynthia Kroll, University of California, Berkley. It addresses the impacts of offshore outsourcing on Business Services and IT at the State and Metropolitan level. Download complete report, in PDF format.

A database containing details of every birth, marriage and death in England and Wales since 1837, all 250 Million of them, is to be transferred to India in one of the biggest offshore contracting deals ever to be signed by the government. Download complete article, in PDF format.

Sixteen foreign-born construction workers with phony immigration documents were able to enter an Oak Ridge nuclear weapons plant because of lax security controls, a federal report said." Download complete story and copy of the DOE Inspector General's Report, in PDF format.

"Predicting that engineering services would power the next wave of outsourcing to India, NASSCOM (National Association Of Software Services Companies) Monday initiated a series of measures to enable the Indian software sector move up the value chain." Download entire story, in PDF format.

If you think that outsourcing is there only in the high-tech industry, think again. Now the outsourcing of educational especially tutorial services is a rising business. Download complete story, in PDF format.

"Jobs have never felt so precarious, and retirement looks very different. The easy answers, such as training, aren't so easy." Download entire article from Information Week by Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, in PDF format.

"For example, AT$T's switched network carries economic, financial and miltary communications, which accounts for a great deal of the foundation of U.S. infrastructure, and relies on programming and maintenance from engineers offshore." Download complete article by Dianne M. Grassi, a freelance columnist who writes on current events, in PDF format.

"John Sweeney and the AFL-CIO endorsed the bill we euphemistically call the McKennedy or McCainedy Bill." Download entire text of Rob Sanchez' Updated Job Destruction Newsletter No. 1274, dated June 7, 2005, that challenges the AFL-CIO response to S 1033/HR 2330, in PDF format with links to background information on this important jobs issue.

Vicente Fox got a well-deserved boot in the derriere for saying Mexicans come to America for taking jobs "not even Blacks want to do." But Thomas Friedman earns plaudits and Pulitzers for his column which announces that East Indians are taking jobs the French are too lazy to do ["A Race to the Top," New York Times, June 3]. Download complete article by Greg Palast, in PDF format.

The following pieces were written by CWA members Steve Tisza and Beverly Hicks following a trip to three cities in India to visit call centers and their workers employed by U.S. businesses. The trip was funded with a grant from the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center. "I believe the shortsighted policies of the U.S. government and corporate America are dedicated to bottom-line profits, more CEO pay and perks at the expense of America's middle class. If and when a CEO job is outsourced, perhaps then government and corporations will come to their senses and finally address this critical issue." External link to read reports on CWA trip to India!

A new book, by Ron & Anil Hira, sounds the alarm on behalf of workers. The authors maintain that unless something is done, they fear for our future. "We are concerned about whether and what types of jobs are going to be available for our children and their children in the future." Download review by Rich Heinz, in PDF format.

"There's a new sector looking to join the outsourcing club." Download complete story, in PDF format.

"Senators McCain and Kennedy have introduced to the Senate the largest guest-worker bill in the history of mankind called S. 1033, or the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act. Some of us nicknamed it the McKennedy guest/worker to amnesty bill." Download detailed information from the Job Destruction Newsletter by Rob Sanchez. Also, a TAKE ACTION link from FAIR to contact your Senators and Congressperson to oppose S. 1033 and H.R. 2330.

Download the full text of S. 1033, Mc Cain/Kennedy Immigration/Amnesty Bill, in PDF format.

The following letter (June 1, 2005) and attachment from John J. Sweeney, President of the AFL-CIO, to National and International Union Presidents sets forth a unified response from the labor movement to this bill, in PDF format.

"Throughout its lengthy history, few issues have caused the American labor movement more agony than immigration. It is ironic this should be the case as most adult immigrants directly enter the labor force. So eventually do most of their family members. But precisely because immigration affects the scale, geographical distribution, and skill composition of the labor force, it affects national, regional and local labor market conditions. Hence, organized labor can never ignore immigration trends." Download August 2001 (report) by Vernon M. Briggs, Professor at the New York State School of Labor and Industrial Relations at Cornell University, in PDF format

"Those who favor unrestricted immigration care nothing for the people. They are simply desirous of flooding the country with unskilled labor of other lands for the purpose of breaking down American standards. You must not forget that if low wages, long hours of employment and unbearable working conditions are signs of prosperity China and India would be the greatest commercial and industrial countries in the world." Download April 28, 1921 letter from Samuel Gompers, president of the AFL to J.H. Reiter at Havorford College about Congressional legislation to restrict immigration, in PDF format.

"Offshore outsourcing is dismantling the ladders of America's fabled upward mobility. The US Labor force already has one foot in the third world. By 2024 the US will be a has-been country." Download complete article by Paul Craig Roberts, in PDF format.

Architects usually can't say enough about what they've been up to. But when the subject turns to offshoring, the volume of the converstion often drops to a whisper. That's because the practice of paying less-expensive workers located beyond the borders of the U.S. to do tasks once done here by architects and interns is extremely controversial." Download complete article from the Architectural Record, in PDF format.

India wants a NEW world trade pact that would prevent the United States and other countries from taking steps to ban companies from outsourcing jobs. Download complete story in PDF format.

The center, which is coming up at Andheri in Mumbai, will have a capacity to seat around 500 people. BoA's first outsourcing center at Hyderabad has grown to nearly 1,000-strong team since it began operations in mid-2004. Download complete article, in PDF format.

Steve Bergeron, now of Massachusetts, has worked 24 1/2 years for IBM Corp., one of them in Poughkeepsie, from August 2003 to August 2004. That year was a life-after-layoff experience. He had managed to get back on the IBM payroll afer an earlier downsizing only to find that his new job would lead to another layoff. This time, his work was to be shipped off to India, and he even had to help train the Indian IBMers who would take the work back to Bangalore. Download complete story in PDF format.

"Polls show huge majorities of both Republicans and Democrats oppose illegal-immigration, and are frustrated that President Bush won't do a thing to stop it." Download entire opinion by Froma Harrop, editorial writer from the Providence Journal, in PDF format.

"SEIU President Andy Stern has repeatedly publicly threatened to take his union out of the AFL-CIO if reforms are not made to his liking. Apparently one of Stern's reforms is for American workers to embrace outsourcing as an inevitable result of globalization." Download letter to CWA President Morty Bahr from Leo W. Gerard, President of the United Steel Workers. Also, the views of Andy Stern, President of the SEIU, on why unions can't turn back the clock on outsourcing, in PDF format.

Monday, May 23, 2005, IBM employees Worldwide Day of Action to protest IBM's plan to cut 13,000 jobs. Download CWA/Alliance@IBM Media Advisory for Monday, May 23, 2005 for more information.

IBM's headcount in India is inching closer to the 25,000 mark as the Big Blue has ramped up its operations aggressively over the last few quarters. Download complete story in PDF format.

UNI has welcomed an agreement between UK affiliate Amicus and CSC, one of the world's leading IT services companies, on offshore outsourcing. Download News Flash in PDF format.

A former aviation contractor pleaded guilty to firearm charges stemming from his arrest March 8, 2005 in a sweep of illegal aliens working at Piedmont Triad Airport in North Carolina. Download articles in PDF format.

The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM, the Number One shill for offshore outsourcing of American jobs, said it is not "overly concerned" on the issue of introduction of more than 112 offshore outsourcing bills across 40 States in the U.S. during the first three months of 2005. Download complete article in PDF format.

Download a new report released today by technology unions and inventors, "The Real Pirates of the Caribbean": U.S. High-Tech Industry's False CAFTA Promises. Also, a link to TAKE ACTION to contact your Senators and Congressmember to note "NO!" on CAFTA.

(UPDATED 05/10/05)-VSNL, a subsidiary of the Tata Group, has purchased Tyco Global Networks (TGN) most advanced and extensive submarine cable systems. The aquisition gives VSNL control over a network that spans 37,208 miles and three continents. "TGN is a strategic asset of incalculable value to the United States security and commercial interest. It is an immense, international network offering massive amounts of high-quality fiber optic bandwidth. This transaction gives the Indian government control over a significant portion of the world's submarine cable network(including more than 80% of the total trans-Pacific undersea capacity)and over key strategic submarine landing stations in the United States," according to Republican Senators Jeff Sessions, Jon Kyl and Ted Stevens in a letter they wrote to Energy Secretary John Snow objecting to the takeover. VSNL America, Inc. is VSNL's US subsidiary. Download complete story in PDF format.

Today, Acting Governor Richard J. Codey of New Jersey signed Senate Bill 494 to protect New Jersey jobs from being outsourced to foreign countries. The new law is the most far reaching offshore outsourcing measure in the country prohibiting ALL state contract work from being performed overseas. Download press release from Governor Codey's office, in PDF format. Also, a link to e-mail him with your thoughts.

Download article from The Financial Express of India, in PDF format.

"After careful consideration of the H-1B Visa Reform Act of 2004 and assuming the regulations publish according to schedule, USCIS has determined that it is a reasonable interpretation of the Act of 2004 to reopen the filing period for FY 2005 on Thursday, May 12, 2005 and make available 20,000 new H-1B numbers limited solely to those aliens who have received a master's or higher degree from a U.S. institution of higher education." Download U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Press Release issued on May 4, 2005, in PDF format.

"Three Americans died in Colorado last week, victims of our government's failure to protect its employers' -Citizens - jobs and access to healthcare." Download complete story in PDF format.

"Like some other manufacturers, Mr. Sweatman, (President of Southern Manufacturing Technologies Inc. in Tampa, Florida), says he would favor relaxing immigration laws for certain needed skills." This is the same excuse used by Corporate America's High-Tech Industry robber barons. Download complete article by Kris Maher, staff reporter of the Wall Street Journal.

Hispanic workers accounted for more than 1 million of the 2.5 million new jobs created by the U.S. economy in 2004. Download Press Release and copy of the new PEW Hispanic Center analysis of latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Census Bureau, in PDF format.

"..Bush must have some other reason for continuing to push his ill-conceived proposal for amnesty for illegal aliens and for turning a blind eye to the dangers of open borders. He appears to be pandering not to Latino voters but to the government of Mexico. Is he so influenced by the corporate advocates for cheap labor that he cannot see the loss of millions of jobs by Latino and black Americans to the unfair competition of illegal labor?" Download entire Op-Ed by Colorado Congressman, Tom Tancredo (R-6thDistrict), in PDF format.

"It is this reporter's opinion that we should have listened to Sir James Goldsmith, former member of the British Parliament and internationally recognized economist, when he warned us of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the New World Order." Download complete article in PDF format.

Washington State has become one of only five states to pass legislation on the politically explosive issue of offshore outsourcing. New Jersey, one of the five states, passed a bill that would ban overseas contracting-out, but is still awaiting the Governor's signature. Take this link to CWA/WashTech's website for more info.

"Outsourcing America" is a powerful work. Only fools will continue clinging to the premise that outsourcing is good for America. Download complete article in PDF format.

It is all part of President Bush's "competitive sourcing" initiative, which requires civil servants across the government to prove they can do their work more efficiently that private contractors, or risk seeing their work outsourced." Download complete article in PDF format.

Download article by John Pardon, a software engineeer and writer. In 2004 Pardon summarised the job loss situation faced by American information technology workers in a widely-read Computerworld article, "Lost Your Job Yet?" Pardon is the policy analyst for Rescue American Jobs and a supporter of the ITPAA and WashTech.

Over strong objections of three (3) Republican U.S. Senators who called the undersea cable a "strategic asset of incalcuable value to United States Security AND commercial interests," the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) approved the Tata/VSNL of India acquisition of the undersea cable assets of Tyco Global Network (TNG). The silence is deafening from labor's so-called friends in Congress. Download complete story in PDF format.

"Consider it a sign of the times that Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao chose to begin his trip to India last Saturday with a visit to the high-tech haven of Bangalore before traveling to New Delhi to talk politics. High-tech and business, naturally enough, are at the top of the agenda for this encounter between leaders of the world's emerging economic superpowers." " Azim Premji, the chairman of WIPRO, one of India's biggest tech companies, warned that the Chinese could start to close the gap in the outsourcing sector once they have mastered English." Download complete opinion article by Aravind Adiga, in PDF format

China, whose exports in software and back-office industry total less than a fifth of India's $16 billion, is boosting English-language skills in schools to help mount a challenge to workers in Bangalore's gleaming software campuses. Download story in PDF format.

A deal between the United States and India could make it easier to travel between the two countries AND OUTSOURCE MORE JOBS. Condoleezza Rice traveled to India to meet with that country's leaders last month, and Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta will travel to India later this month to sign the aviation deal. Download complete story in PDF format.

Outsourcing of call center and other business processes from the USA to India has been criticized by U.S. labor unions and others, which say members are losing jobs as a result of offshore outsourcing. One of the key issues raised is the danger of data theft and misuse. Download complete story in PDF format.

"If economic professors are so fanatic about free trade, why not eliminate their tenure and import English-speaking economics professors from India at half the pay?" Download complete opinion article in PDF format.

"A country that permits its manufacturing and its technical and scientific professions to wither away is a country on a path to the Third World. The mark of a Third World country is a labor force employed in domestic services." Download entire article in PDF format.

"When I was growing up, my parents used to say to me, "Tom, finish your dinner, people in China are starving." But after sailing to the edges of the flat world for a year, I am now telling my own daughters, "Girls, finish your homework, people in China and India are starving for your jobs." Download entire opinion article by Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times Magazine, in PDF format.

Steve Lamb, vice president of technology at NetComm Solutions Inc. in Mechanicsburg, said his company doesn't have employees on temporary work visas. "I will tell you that there is a great pool of home-grown talent in the area," he said. "Anytime I have an available technical position, there are dozens and dozens of responses from some very talented candidates that live and work in our local area." Download entire story in PDF format.

The Union Network International (UNI)is working to bring Indian call center workers together. The UNI-led staff association is already functioning in Hyderabad and Bangalore. Their aim is to counsel, support and represent individual call center workers in the short term and secure negotiating rights with major employers in the long run. Take this external link to learn more about this on the WashTech/CWA Website.

A "New" Gartner Report, to be released next week, says 30% of IT jobs in developed countries will be "offshored" by 2015. Download exclusive story from Information Week in PDF format.

"Organized labor and others should make sure this story becomes big news. People might begin to ask deeper questions. If free trade agreements are the road to greater U.S. prosperity, how did the United States wind up in this deep hole?" Download complete story in PDF format.

Michael Kane, 47, believes outsourcing cost him his job as a Communications Technician for AT$T Corp. three months ago. AT$T uses foreign labor to make fixes on its network, the work Kane used to do, he said. Kane said he is close to having to dip into his retirement savings and money he set aside for his 12 year-old daughter's education. "It's going to have an effect on her ability to go to college," he said. Download complete article bu The Journal News in PDF format.

A cable worker dressed in a Comcast uniform, driving a Comcast van and wearing Comcast employment identification raped a young woman in Sacramento. The rapist was arrested and convicted. Comcast argued they were not responsible for background checks of CONTRACTORS but the judge ruled that Comcast WAS RESPONSIBLE for people working in their name. Download complete story from ComcastWatch, jointly sponsored by the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, in PDF format

India's status as a dominent outsourcing destination is under attack from China. In the next 10 years, China would replace India as the number 1 technology outsourcing country, said the recent Global Outsourcing Report carried out by the Geneva-based strategic advisory firm Horasis and Going Global Ventures. According to the report, nearly 75% of the U.S. companies outsourced their information technology activities in 2004. Download two articles and a copy of the report, in PDF format.

India today earns more than $17 billion from corporations world-wide seeking low-cost overseas talent to do everything from write software to collect debts to design semiconductors. GE in large measure stoked the phenomenon, playing an unheralded role as the Johnny Appleseed of India Inc. and reaping billions in savings for itself along the way. Download complete story from on-line WSJ, in PDF format.

The investigation at TIMCO marks the second time in as many years a negative spotlight is shining on a Forida contractor that allegedly put illegal immigrants into the aircraft-maintenance plant in western Greensboro. Download complete article in PDF format.

"Over the next decade, offshoring will knock millions of white-collar Americans and Europeans out of work, blowing a hole in the middle class from Los Angeles to London, from Boston to Berlin, from Toledo to Tokyo, from Austin to Amsterdam." Download entire article in PDF format.

The one-day strike shut 66,000 branches of 27 state-run banks across India and kept one million bank employees from work. Download complete story in PDF format.

The ITPAA representing over 1,200 IT professionals nationwide, presents this award to business and political leaders that it believes best represent the interests of the IT community and America at large. Download complete story in PDF format.

Thanks to the persistence and determination of New Jersey State Senator, Shirley K. Turner, her legislation S494 was passed by the State Assembly on Monday, March 14, 2005 by a vote of 68 YES 5 no and 4 abstentations. The bill now awaits the Governor's signature. Download summary of bill in PDF format.

Dell Inc., the world's largest personal computer maker, said Monday it would push deeper into low-cost countries by hiring 1,200 staff for another call center in India. Dell currently employees more than 7,000 people in India. Download complete story in PDF format.

Right now, AT$T is planning to eliminate over 1,000 U.S. customer service jobs. The layoffs could hit by the end of the month, unless AT$T realizes that it's wrong to hand out work to people in India and the Philippines while handing out pink slips at home. AT$T makes big profits here, including millions off government contracts, so it has a responsibility to keep good jobs here too. E-Mail AT$T CEO dave Dorman at dorman@att.com. Download PDF ad appearing in Major newspapers in the USA.

"Free market" economists and U.S. politicians are blind to the rapid transformation of America into a third world economy, but college bound American students and heads of engineering schools are acutely aware of declining career opportunities and enrollments. While "free trade" economists and corporate publicists prattle about America's glorious future, heads of prestigious engineering schools ponder the future of engineering education in America." Download full article in PDF format.

"Economists give assurances that the dollar's decline and fall will bring jobs and industry back to the U.S. Once Americans are as poor as Indians and Chinese are today, the process will reverse. Multinational corporations will locate in America to take advantage of cheap labor and unserved markets. By becoming poor, the U.S. can become rich again." Download entire article in PDF format.

The data supports the IEEE-USA contention that offshoring not only contributes significantly to U.S. high-tech unemployment, but also suppresses wages. Download complete article and the 2004 IEEE-USA Unemployment Survey released on March 8, 2005, in PDF format.

"Illegal aliens using false Social Security numbers were able to enter and work as contract painters at a power plant in Florida, including work near one nuclear reactor." Governor Jeb Bush obviously supports his brother's "willing worker and willing employer" concept! Download complete article in PDF format.

The Labor Department alleges that Computech, Inc. brought non-immigrant H-1B workers into the U.S., but failed to pay them the required wage rate. Download complete story in PDF format.

Immigrants taken into custody had a "plethora" of worrisome documents as varied as federal airplane-repair licenses, fraudulent Social Security documents, counterfeit green cards and a falsified passport. Download complete story in PDF format.

Bangalore is starting to appear on the radar of militant groups, Indian police warned this weekend, after uncovering a terrorist plan to target IT companies in the city widely regarded as the country's technology hub. Download entire story in PDF format.

Mc Donald's Corp., the world's largest restaurant chain, is testing the use of remote call centers to handle drive-thru orders in an effort to improve service. Download complete article in PDF format.

Are "mature" speech recognition technologies a threat to call center agents? Download analyses of the issue by Srikanth R P in PDF format.

The work done at the two sites will be sent to Lucent's Bangalore, India facility. Dick Muldoon, a Lucent spokesman, said the decision is "primarily a cost advantage move." Download complete story in PDF format.

The Information Technology Professionals Association of America (ITPAA), an advocacy group based in Wilmington, Delaware representing professionals in the high-tech field has handed out its first Weasel Award of 2005 to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY). The organization, representing over 1,200 IT professional nationwide, presents this award to business and political leaders that it believes betrays the trust of the American people. Download complete story in PDF format.

"Infosys Technologies Ltd., India's No. 2 software services exporter, is planning a new campus in bangalore as it hires by the thousands to feed an outsourcing boom, officials said on Thursday." Downlaod entire story in PDF format.

"Due to ice and snow in Atlanta, Georgia, my visit started one day late. I arrived in Mumbai (Bombay) on Tuesday, February 1st, around midnight and could not believe the hundreds of people at the airport, or thousands of cars and motorcycles still on the roads; all of them blowing their horns, the only criteria for driving in India." Download a very comprehensive report on CWA's Visit to India by Beverly Hicks, Assistant to CWA District 3 Vice President Noah Savant, in PDF format.

The following report consists of my findings and observations during a historic visit to India sponsored by the AFL-CIO American Center for International Labor Solidarity Center and the Communications Workers of America International Exchange Program. Download report in PDF format.

UPDATED TO INCLUDE THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE GUIDE BOOK "This is so transparent, this is the Mexican government trying to protect its most valuable export, which is illegal migrants." Download complete story and link to Guide Book in PDF format.

"Are Senators Christopher Dodd and Joseph Lieberman representing New London and New Canaan, Connecticut. Or are they representing New Delhi?" Download complete article by Paul Streitz in PDF format.

"Many young Indian call center operators are suffering from stress because of the abuse received from American customers angry about outsourced jobs." Download complete story from The Standard On-Line News, China's Business Newspaper, in PDF format.

"The Chinese and Indian software industries are forging closer ties, as the world's two most populous countries become favoured offshore software outsourcing destinations." Download complete article in PDF format.

"The U.S. economy is headed toward crisis, and the political leadership of the country, if it can be called leadership, is preoccupied with nonexistant weapons of mass destruction in the Midddle East." External link to see today's opinion article by Paul Craig Roberts.

"The net effect of immigration to the United States is a drain on U.S. native workers of about $70 billion per year, according to a new study by two Columbia University professors and the Center for Immigration Studies." Download news article and copy of their report in PDF format.

"No single federal entity, however well-funded, however well-organized, can successfully protect our nation's vast financial networks and critical infrastructure on its own. We depend on the expertise of our partners in private industry," said Ralph Basham, director of the Secret Service. Download entire article in PDF format.

"Managers from this location were sent to the Philippines and India last year to train and help open offshore call centers." said Roy Hegenbart, President of CWA Local 3250, which represents AT$T workers in Georgia, Florida and Tennessee. Download complete article with pictures from Local 3250 added, in PDF format.

"In an effort to curb the practice of outsourcing domestic jobs overseas, Gov. Rod Blagojevich signed Senate Bill 2375, requiring companies bidding for state business to certify whether the terms of the contract will be performed in the United States." Although SB 2375 does not resemble the bill that I (Steve Tisza) testified on at the request of Senator Ronan during the Government Committee Hearing in February 2004, Illinois is only the second state to actually enact offshore outsourcing legislation. Download Press Release from Gov. Blagojevich's Office and actual text of the new law effective June 1, 2005, in PDF format.

"We began yelling "Hey Dave, we're your fan club." Local 9423 President Louis Rocha said. He looked and waved, then we started yelling "Bring our jobs back from India and stop cutting jobs," as did many in the gallery. Dorman was clearly flustered and we had our union shirts visible along with a sign that read "UNION!" Dorman then scampered off the green." External link to CWA website for entire story.

The 2005 World Outsourcing Summit, to be held at the Hotel Coronado in San Diego, Ca., has said journalists are not welcome. A fear of bad publicity has prompted a global conference on outsourcing to close its doors to media coverage. A year ago, a group of protesters belonging to the Communications Workers of America stormed the conference at its location in the Disney Yacht and Beach Club Resort in Orlando, Florida, reported WKMG, a Florida TV station. Download complete story in PDF format.

"Perhaps, when the first job of a CEO of an American corporation is outsourced offshore, the US government and corporate America will come to the table to address this issue in a positive way. If they don't, America will soon become a third world country." Download preliminary report by Steve Tisza, President CWA Local 4250/Chicago on CWA's historic visit to India, in PDF format.

Canada's Minister of International Trade, Jim Peterson, recently told a gathering of Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters; "Business should feel free to send work offshore to wherever it can be done most cheaply, to help boost their bottom lines. In doing so, you're not going to hear from our government cries of outsourcing, cries of offshoring or of protectionism." Download complete article in PDF format.

"Though the Bangalore Infrastructure Plan gives a rosy picture of what the city was projected to look like in 2005, the ground reality is quite the contrary." Download article (PDF) from the Times of India that I picked up in my recent visit. Currently, Indian infrastructure cannot compare with the United States.

A CIA report predicts that American global dominance could end in 15 years. Download complete article in PDF format.

"How we mentally map the world of 2020 will change radically," said the National Intelligence Council(NIC) chairman Robert Hutchings at the release of his panel's NEW report, PROJECT 2020. Download entire story containing a link to download this new report.

"For a bargain hourly rate as low as $60 (compared with $350 at the low end of the typical U.S. scale), Dhir's Atlas Legal Research can study legal precedents in state law to craft arguments in a trial brief. It's possible because U.S. case law is available online, and India's English-educated lawyers work in a common-law legal system similar to ours." The overwhelming majority of the U.S. House and Senate support outsourcing of American jobs and do not care about working families. Perhaps members of Congress will now take note of this new trend as a very large percentage of the members of the U.S. House and Senate are lawyers. Download complete story in PDF format.

Monitoring is intended to track the performance of call center operators, but the professional snoops are inadvertently monitoring callers too. Most callers do not realize that they may be taped even while they are on hold. Download complete story in PDF format.

Convergys officials said they plan to nearly triple their Asian-based workforce by the end of 2005. Download complete news article in PDF format

Almost every segment of CWA's membership is potentially vulnerable to losing jobs to "global free trade." Opinion article printed in the January 2005 issue of the CWANews by CWA President Morton Bahr. Download complete article in PDF format.

Aaron Kemp, a 31 year-old union safety and education official, said; "It's exploitation of the many for the benefit of the few." "Sometimes there's a fine line between what's legal and what's right", he said. Download entire story in PDF format.

Rob Sanchez keeps track of H-1B visa developments at his website, www.ZaZona.com. Download his essay (Part 1 & 2) about the India Caucus in the House of Representatives, "Friends of India" in the U.S. Senate and the Indian Political Action Committee (USINPAC) in PDF format

"The government approved a subsidy program this Sunday to provide incentives for the development of call centers in Jerusalem." Download entire article in PDF format.

"Foreign travelers have entered the country using illegal passports the government knows are stolen, and the whereabouts of some with possible terrorist links remains unknown, according to a report released today." Download complete GovExec.com daily briefing and a link to THE Report.

The PASHA and the NASSCOM have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for mutual cooperation in the IT sector of the two countries. Jerry Rao, chairman of NASSCOM, reflected on the factors leading to the growth of the IT sector. He said Indian partnerships with the U.S. and later UK played a decisive role in the growth of IT. Download complete news article from the Pakistan Daily Times in PDF format.

"...amid continuing concern in the U.S. over the outsourcing issue and flight of jobs, a recent cartoon showed bewildered American kids being told to make their Christmas wishes to a number in Bangalore, because even Santa Claus has been outsourced." Download entire news article in PDF format, with cartoon added.

Though the total number of home-sourced workers is difficult to track, the ranks of their professional groups are swelling. Many like their improved work-life balance even though they may receive lower wages and no benefits. Download entire article in PDF format.

Viewpoint written by Dr. Norman Matloff, professor of computer science in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Davis in PDF format.

Congressman Lamar Smith authored the H-1B and L Visa programs that passed the House of Representatives as part of the Omnibus appropriations bill (H.R. 4818). Download complete story in PDF format.

Private Indian and Pakistani information technology companies will meet in the Pakistani capitol, December 15-18, 2004, to tap business opportunities and sign a cooperative agreement. Indian companies are keen to use Pakistan as a base for white-collar workers who are available for wages even lower than in India. Download complete story in PDF format.

The president said he is going to spend the "political capitol" he earned in his re-election to push hard for his plan. "I'm going to find supporters on the Hill and move it,"he said.

A new report by Cornell University and University of Massachusetts Amherst found, in the first quarter of 2004, unionized workplaces were disproportionately affected by US production shifts. The study found 39% of all jobs being shifted out of the United States were from unionized facilities. Download complete report in PDF format.

Keith Adams is particularly bitter because his state of Ohio, which lost more jobs during Bush's first term than most, was instrumental in the president's victory."My reaction is of deep disappointment," said Adams, who, as president of Local 4351 of the Communications Workers of America trade union, watched a dozen jobs being sent to Bangalore before his own vanished last December. Download entire story in PDF format.

Please send a message to your congressional representatives urging them to oppose expansion of the H-1B and H-2B Visas that allow more foreign workers to take American jobs. Use this IBEW link to SEND YOUR MESSAGE TODAY!

"Michael Brightman is reminded daily that workers in New Delhi do the same job he does. His Indian counterparts routinely direct AT$T customers to him for long-distance billing problems that the New Delhi workers can't answer." Brightman and 139 others will be laid off Friday from AT$T's call center on Massachusetts' southeaster coast." Download entire story from the Boston Globe by Kimberley Blanton in PDF format.

"Like an outer-space alien from a 1950s science fiction movie, the H-1B monster is back." Download perspective by Jim Hightower in PDF format.

We have learned that the Senate will hold a meeting at some point TODAY, Monday, November 15, 2004, during which they will consider attaching an H-1B Visa increase to an appropriations bill. Download entire news flash on how to TAKE ACTION

"Make no mistake about the urgency of the need to take action. These increases could be put into the omnibus spending bill within days. Once it's put in there will be no stopping it because of the immense pressure to raise the debt limit. President Bush favors increasing these visas so he will sign the bill without a second's thought." Download PDF file for more info and take action links.

Since the grievance and arbitration process is a sham, every CWA local that represents AT$T members should immediately file an NLRB charge like brother Roy Hegenbart, president of CWa Local 3250, in Atlanta, has done. Download entire letter and NLRB Form 501 and instructions on how to file a complaint in PDF format.

"US Airways is expected to ask a bankruptcy judge next week to abrogate their contracts, beginning a process that could last as long as 51 days. The IAM, along with the CWA, is discussing the possibility of a strike if the judge throws out the collective bargaining agreements." Download complete story in PDF format.

"With Attorney General John Ashcroft's announcement of his upcoming retirement, and Chief Justice William Rehnquist's recent illness that will most likely cause him to leave the bench, and the possible departure or changes of position of Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Advisor Condolezza Rice and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, it is clear that the political canvas is changing. With that change, lies an extraordinary potential to end the dissatisfaction of current immigration policies." Download complete article from India-Economic-Times in PDF format.

Newly-elected John Thune from South Dakota, who upstaged minority leader Tom Daschle voted in favor of increasing the annual H-1B cap. Thune, in a move that can be seen as pro-corporate America, voted against the Watt amendment, which would have forbidden U.S. firms from using temporary foreign workers to replace Americans. Download complete article from India Economic-Times on-line in PDF format.

Kiran Karnik, president of the industry group NASSCOM, or National Association of Software and Service Companies, said; "Bush's re-election will bring out the latent demand for outsourcing and lead to more offshoring announcements by companies. Some corporations have been cautious about signing or announcing deals in the last few months. Now they will no longer hold back." Download complete story in PDF format.

However, in India, the world's largest democracy, Bush's victory was seen as good for business. Raja Mohan, a professor of South Asian studies at Jawaharal Nehru University in New Delhi, noted that "India has done more business with the U.S. in the last four years than in the previuous 40." "We believe the relationship is poised for a significant expansion," Mohan said, "and the return of Bush raises that prospect." Download entire report by Chicago Tribune foreign correspondent, Tom Hundley, in PDF format.

"America confronts a new competitive challenge. The very sectors that drove the American boom of the 1990s are now being threatened by offshore outsourcing. Outsourcing is not just a problem confronting manufacturing workers. Today, American's innovation workers, software programmers and other professionals, are seeing their jobs outsourced to lower wage countries around the world." Download the John Kerry-John Edwards Plan combatting the Bush threat to our innovation sector workers in PDF format.

LISTEN TO OUR "NEW AD"!! CWA members know that offshoring of jobs is a huge national problem. That's why we've created another radio ad to draw attention to the issue. CLICK to listen to the radio as (MP3 format; 236K)

CWA members set up informational picket lines in more than a dozen communities to protest new layoffs announced by AT$T and to remind the public that AT$T is determined to abandon customers, communities and workers. Download complete article in PDF format.

Please read the attached (PDF) correspondence to Dave Dorman and John Polumbo from Dan Foster of the West Virginia House of Delegates; a response from AT$T's David P. Condit, Vice President; and a letter from President Bahr to Dan Foster regarding AT$T's response. The letters are self-explanatory.

Check out"The Greedy Dozen!" That's the latest list of the top twelve U.S. corporate executives who are sending workers' jobs overseas while getting big tax breaks and supporting the coffers and the interests of the Republican Party. External link to a list put together by Arianna Huffington.

I strongly urge all current "surplus at-risk" members of Local 4250 to immediately submit a written request to your AT$T manager to inspect your personnel records. Download notice and Summary of Illinois Law in PDF format.

CWA leaders and AT$T exchanged sharp jabs tuesday over job cuts. Download complete article in PDF format.

Download article on jobs being offshored and its affects on working families in PDF format

The attached PDF file contains a "Correction" to AT$T's initial October 19, 2004 Surplus/VTP announcement.

Download poster for posting in your cubicle and distribution to scab contractors in PDF format.

In preparation for 2005 CWA/AT$T contract negotiations, AT$T has initiated implementation of their dishonorable plan to completely eliminate the CWA represented AT$T workforce. Download complete story and applicable contract articles violated by AT$T in PDF format.

Radio ads supporting the CWA AT$T mobilization will be heard on various radio stations on Tuesday, October 19 and Wednesday, October 20, 2004. The ad runs predominantly during the morning and evening rush hour. Download PDF document with cities and radio stations.

There will be an Informational Picket Line by CWA Local 4250 members, retirees and activists at 10 South Canal Street, Chicago, Illinois at 12 Noon on Tuesday, October 19, 2004. Download Local Media Advisory in PDF format.

An Emergency "Continuous" membership meeting for all CWA Local 4250 AT$T members, retirees and activists will commence today, October 18, 2004, at 3PM (CST). Download flyer (PDF) for more information.

"WHAT? You are a Programmer. You are an Information Technology Specialist. You are a Computer Trainer. Your're an Engineer, an Architectural Design Specialist, a Scientific Research Expert. You are a textile worker, a warehouse distributor, a machinist, an airline worker, a pilot, a telemarketer, an insurance company admisistrator, a Wall Street financial advisor, an executive assistant, a teacher. FEAR NOT! Your local COMMUNITY COLLEGE IS HERE TO HELP." Download entire OpEd in PDF format.

AT$T is getting rid of its own workforce. It is replacing its own union workers, and even its own managers, with sub-contracted employees. Download complete story in PDF format.

Jim Wasser, member of IBEW Local 176 in Joliet, Illinois, was second in command on John Kerry's Swift Boat in Vietnam and knows what kind of leader he is. Download flyer in PDF format.

This year the cap was reached on October 1st, the FIRST DAY of the 2005 fiscal year. Download complete article in PDF format.

Download a recent perspective by John Pardon in PDF format. John is an independent writer and IT professional. He writes on topics of offshore outsourcing, guest worker visa programs, free trade policy and the politics underlying these issues.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has backed up his promise to veto bills that would have barred state contractors or agencies from outsourcing work offshore. Download complete article in PDF format.

"The truth is that there are very few "American" corporations of any size left. An even sadder truth is that many of these large multinationals no longer value employees as people." Download complete opinion article in PDF format.

"There's a PUSH in Congress to change guest visa programs, including a proposal to create a NEW exemption to the annual cap of 65,000 new H-1B visas. There's some urgency to act on the legislation soon, because Congress is expected to adjourn in October, possibly for the rest of the year." Download complete article in PDF format.

NOTE: "Many Americans do not understand the threat that the WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION poses to the sovereignty of the United States. In the following article, Thomas K. Kilgannon of Human Events On-Line explains this threat in the clearest terms. Download the entire article in PDF format.

"AT$T has set in motion their strategy to permanently replace its union represented technical workforce with non-union contractors." Download flyer in PDF format.

"Offshore outsourcing of U.S. jobs is a growing trend that cannot be ignored, according to a final report released today by the General Accounting office (GAO)." Download complete story that contains a link to download this new report in PDF format.

"The Bush administration has acknowledged that outsourcing is a positive link between India and the U.S. with the potential to bring both countries closer, Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran said here (New York) Tuesday." Download complete World news report in PDF format.

"CWA President Morton Bahr thanked Senators Robert Byrd and Jay Rockefeller for speaking out against the West Virgina closing. He reminded the senators that "Two years ago, AT$T put our members in Charleston in a head-to-head competition with a call center in Bangalore, India. It is no surprise that we could not compete when measured against a total cost of doing business in India as against Charleston." AT$T has since opened another call center in Nederland, India, he told the senators. Download complete story and responses from senators Bryd and Rockefeller in PDF format.

More U.S. families struggle to stay on track. Download article from On-Line Washington Post in PDF format.

"The move by GE, which declined to comment, comes at a time when outsourcing by U.S. companies is accelerating and the industry is consolidating in India, Giving GE an opportunity to profit from some of its investment, according to people familiar with the situation. Additionally, GE could save money by outsourcing MORE OF ITS OPERATIONS instead of having a capitive unit, says John Mc Carthy, a researcher with Forrester Research Inc. in Cambridge, Mass." Download complete article in PDF format.

Cincinnati-based Convergys Corp., which has created thousands of jobs in India and the Philippines in the last two years, will be one of Greater Cincinnati companies singled out today for criticism at a press conference by an organization called Working America, an affiliate of the AFL-CIO. Download complete article in PDF format.

The Honorable Larry Suffredin, Cook County Commissioner, will introduce an amendment to the Cook County Contracting and Purchasing Ordinance to assure that work performed on Cook County services contracts shall be performed within the United States of America. Download a copy of the proposed ordinance in PDF format.

A new report by the Center for Urban Economic Development at the University of Illinois, Chicago, shows that U.S. high-technology workers are still facing chronic unemployment and a serious jobs deficit despite an economic recovery being declared three years ago. Download complete story and link to download the report in PDF format.

"They keep saying there's more jobs, but what? McDonald's? Wal-Mart? All the good jobs are going overseas." Download complete story in PDF format.

The five bills, awaiting his signature or veto by September 30th, seek to ban or restrict the outsourcing of jobs from California to countries like India. Download complete story in PDF format.

"With the threat of more companies outsourcing their work to add to their bottom line, it is our responsibility to protect our jobs from going overseas," Governor McGreevey said at a news conference in Trenton. Download complete story in PDF format.

John Kerry and John Edwards have a plan to END TAX BREAKS for companies that ship jobs overseas. Download differences in Kerry and Bush plans on outsourcing in PDF format.

How you vote is a personal decision. No union can tell you how to vote. However, CWA Local 4250 urges you to learn where the candidates stand on issues important to working families. Download PDF flyer show CLEAR differences in our choice for president.

"This bill should be a model of how a state can deal with outsourcing," said State Senator Liz Figueroa, D- Fremont, CA. Download complete article in PDF format.

Robert Zoellick is the Bush administration's trade representative, and his continued pursuit of free trade amid all the political pressure to move in the opposite direction is one of the more surprising and little-noticed stories of the election year. Mr. Zoellick says the administration is "confounding conventional wisdom," and he is right. Download complete WSJ article in PDF format.

"If the amendments are accepted by the Assembly, as expected, it will go to the governor's desk (Schwarzenegger) where it faces a more uncertain fate." Download complete article from the Pasadena Star-News in PDF format.

Most front-line border protection personnel do not believe they have the tools to fight terrorism, according to a survey of Border Patrol agents and Customs and Border protection inspectors released by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE). Download full Press Release and survey results from Peter D. Hart Research in PDF format.

Techsunite/Illinois, a project of CWA Local 4250 and Washtech, will join the Chicago Unity Rally on Sunday, August 29, 2004 @ 2PM at the Federal Plaza at the corner of Dearborn & Adams. Look for their banner on the southwest corner at Dearborn & Adams. Download their flier in PDF format.

Glenn Hiller said he was motivated by how Bush is "pulverizing" society and making people believe "that if somebody disagrees with you, they are bad." "It's a completely scripted speech in a controlled environment where nobody but those who support him (is) allowed in," he said. Download complete article in PDF format.

In the event you missed Bill Moyers interview of CNN's Lou Dobbs on PBS NOW last night, the following is the entire interview in PDF format.

"Charles McMillion's monthly reports (MBG Information Services) based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics payroll data show that job growth during the current recovery is concentrated in domestic services that cannot be outsourced. A Country whose workforce is concentrated in nontradable domestic services is a third world country. Will economists stay in denial until the U.S. reaches this destination?" Download complete perspective in PDF format.

A recent report, "Offshoring, A Detour Along The Automation Highway," estimates that potentially 2.3 million American jobs in the banking and securities indudtries could be lost to offshore outsourcing. Download complete article in PDF format.

Instead of creating new jobs and championing the interests of America's workers, the Bush administration actively supports policies that raise the nation's record trade deficits, subject workers to unfair trade practices and increase the number of good jobs sent overseas, according to "THE BUSH RECORD ON SHIPPING JOBS OVERSEAS", a new AFL-CIO brief. Download the new brief in PDF format.

"General Electric's "70-70-70" plan signals the possible extent of these shifts. It plans to outsource 70 percent of its head count, push 70 percent of that outsourcing offshore and locate 70 percent of its workers in India." Download complete article in PDF format.

"Michigan is the poster child for this social and economic disease caused by multitier wage structures, wage reductions and outsourcing. These agreements benefit a few at the expense of the middle class and our communities," said Robert Betts, president of UAW Local 2131 in the Coopersville and Wyoming plants. Download complete article in PDF format.

George W. Bush and his administration have made it clear they don't think outsourcing is a problem. Download complete news article in PDF format.

CWA Newspaper Guild leaders said they will challenge Reuters management's plan to expand the Bangalore, India editorial unit from a fledging operation covering U.S. companies too small for "RAM" journalists to a major bureau that would absorb a dozen Guild-represented jobs. Download complete article from the CWA/TNG Local 31003 website in PDF format.

Download a letter to Democratic Presidential Candidate John Kerry from nine (9) Ohio white collar "knowledge age" American workers directly affected by offshore outsourcing and/or replaced by foreign replacement workers on H-1B or L-1 visas, in PDF format.

"Those giving assurances that America is benefiting from globalism are missing the big picture. Globalism is reshaping the U.S. labor force, giving the work force a third world profile." Download complete perspective by Paul Craig Roberts in PDF format.

"One of the ways to limit outsourcing is that Kerry will work to push back UP HIGH the H-1 visas that have been reduced to half of what they were." Download complete article from Sify.com in PDF format.

"H-1B visas have fueled the shift of technology work overseas," says Ron Hira, Rochester Institute of Technology public policy professor. He suspects anxiety over science and engineering doctorates is a diversion from the offshoring trend of shifting work overseas. "There's a perception we're in a competitive crisis," he said. "The competitive and inovation(argument) has been introduced by companies that want to take offshore outsourcing off the table." Download complete article from zdnet.com in PDF format.

Less than three months after opening a new development center in India, Jolly Technologies battles intellectual property thiefs and the Indian legal system. Download complete article in PDF format.

"One of every eight jobs in New Jersey is potentially vulnerable to being lost in the current wave of employers sending service jobs overseas, with office, computer and math jobs most at risk." A new report by New Jersey Policy Perspective, written by NJPP Policy Analyst Susan J. Bottino was released on August 3, 2004. Download a NJPP Press Release and copy of her report in PDF format.

"American workers are encountering a harsh truth about how they earn a living. Old expectations about safe careers, the best opportunities and steadily rising incomes are being shaken as never before." Download complete article in PDF format.

Download article from rediff.com, an on-line India News Agency, in PDF format.

"It's a turnaround in their philosophy," says Lee Conrad, national coordinator of Alliance@IBM, a Communications Workers of America affiliate that has been trying to organize IBM workers for years. But "it remains to be seen how many IBM workers offered substitute jobs remain employed", he says." Download complete article from On-Line WSJ in PDF format.

"Financially troubled Delta Airlines Inc. said today it was shuttering one of its three call centers in India." Download complete story in PDF format.

"The growing trend of companies moving information-based service sector jobs to low-wage nations is receiving heavy coverage in the news media and is spurring intense debate among policymakers. The truth is, the Bush administration has done little to respond to this trend, and in some cases made it worse." Downlaod complete article by Robert D. Atkinson, Vice President of the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), and a link to download a new PPI report on outsourcing in PDF format.

In Mike Emmons' case, it wasn't outsourcing that cost him his job; it was outsourcing's evil twin: INSOURCING. There are two types of visas that allow foreign workers into the United States. The L-1 and the H-1B. Download complete story in PDF format.

"It was only a matter of time before the globalization of work affected the United States labor market. The character and quality of American job creation is changing before our very eyes. Which poses the most important question of all: What are we going to do about it?" Download entire Op-Ed by Stephen S. Roach, Chief economist for Morgan Stanley, in PDF format.

Labor Dept. estimates of U.S. jobs shipped overseas are laughably divorced from reality. That's why a SBA research project is so important. Download complete article in PDF format.

Download excerpts from Treasurer Secretary John Snow's July 20, 2004 "ASK THE WHITE HOUSE" in PDF format

Private contractors revamping IRS computers committed security violations that significantly increased the possibility that private taxpayer information might be disclosed, Treasury Department inspectors say. Download complete article in PDF format.

"Ninety-five percent of the people we ask sign this, Armstrong said. "The hardest part has been getting enough volunteers to collect signatures." Download complete article from the Denver Post in PDF format.

"The past few years have seen a rise in something called ODMs, or "original design manufacturers." A growing percentage of products in the computer and elecronics industries, it's hard to know the exact amount, are being designed as well as made by ODMs. ODMs are good news for consumers but a mixed blessing for U.S. workers. During the 1980s and 1990s, as U.S. computer manufacturing moved to Asia, you often heard that the trend was nothing to fret about because the really good jobs, meaning the high-paying design jobs, were staying in America. NOT any more." Download complete article from the WSJ on-line edition in PDF format.

Is it moral or immoral for an employer to move jobs from one nation to another? Should it be legal or illegal? One of the first steps in exploring the issue is to gather facts. Download a new report that looks at offshoring, not by private companies, but by governments themselves. Download the report entitled "Your Tax Dollars at Work" commissioned by CWA/Washtech in PDF format.

"By signing up with CGI-AMS, the governor seems to be preparing to veto a bill by Assemblywoman Carol Liu (D),that would prohibit state agencies from using government funds to contract for services unless the work will be performed in the United States." Download complete article in PDF format.

"The report, released in May, has gone almost unnoticed amid generally upbeat news as strong economic growth has begun fueling an increase in jobs, diminishing public debate about offshoring." Download complete article and a link to download the Boston Consulting Group Report, "Capturing Global Advantage" in PDF format.

" (CEO Thomas) Donahue acknowledged the pain for people who have lost jobs to offshoring, an estimated 250,000 a year, according to government estimates. But pockets of unemployment shouldn't lead to "anecdotal politics and policies, " he said, and PEOPLE AFFECTED BY OFFSHORING SHOULD "STOP WHINING." Download complete AP story by Rachael Konrad in PDF format.

Download PDF copy of very unflattering and discriminatory job ads being used by Daksh, IBM's recent acquisition, to recruit Indian job applicants to replace American, German and French call center workers.

Remarks by CWA EVP Larry Cohen to the World Bank Conference on June 28, 2004 in PDF format.

Northwest Airlines is threatening to discipline or fire union employees if they disparage the company in an informational picketing campaign about offshore outsourcing planned for July 2, 2004 at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Download complete story and letter from NWA Labor Relations and the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association Local 33 response in PDF format

"House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi joined several of her Democratic colleagues and two laid-off workers whose jobs were outsourced at a news conference to unveil House Democrats' "American Jobs Plan," which will keep America competitive in a changing global marketplace by creating the jobs of the future, and keeping good-paying jobs here at home." Download Pelosi's remarks from a press release in PDF format.

Ron Hira, an assistant professor for public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology, said; "It's important to dispel the myth that high-end work is immune to offshore outsourcing." "What is not clear," Mr. Hira added, "is how much of that high-end work will go abroad." Download complete article from the New York Times in PDF format.

"We have had this unprecedented withdrawal from the labor force over the past three years," said Lee Price, research director at the Independent Economic Policy Institute. Download complete Reuters article in PDF format.

"The issues potency was proven last month when the Communications Workers of America negotiated a new contract with SBC Communications Inc. after a four-day strike." During the strike by CWA's 102,000 SBC workers, thousands of picketers around the country hoisted anti-offshoring signs saying "SBC UNPATRIOTIC" and "KEEP JOBS IN AMERICA." Download complete story by T.A. Badger Associated Press in PDF format.

"Over 60% of Tata Consultancy Services' revenues are from businesses in the U.S., through onshoring and offshoring." Download full article in PDF format.

"If you are planning to go to the U.S. on intra-company transfer, a new Bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives may prove to be a dampener." Download complete article from India's Economic Times On-Line in PDF format.

"It is outrageous and wrong to reward these companies for abandoning our country, particularly from the very department charged with safeguarding our homeland security, as we work to pay for the ongoing was on terrorism," Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.)who sponsored the amendment said. Download complete On-Line Chicago Tribune story in PDF format.

"What do Enron, Worldcom, QUEST and Tyco have in common? If you answered, "putting one over on their employees and shareholders with dishonest accounting practices," you are only partially right. As equally disturbing as the accounting scandals, and with more long-term destructive consequences, is the growing practice within corporate America to utilize H-B visa holders to work skilled technical positions traditionally held by American citizens." Download complete report by Glenn R. Jackson, Chairman of the American Reformation Project, in PDF format. Contains links to other information sources.

"more than one million Indians are expected to be employed in CALL-CENTER, BACK-OFFICE and SOFTWARE JOBS by 2008, making the sector the country's biggest foreign-exchange earner, with expected annual revenue of $50 BILLION! Download complete article in PDF format.

White collar offshoring, the movement of well-paid jobs that were once insulated from foreign competition out of the United States, has been widely discussed in recent months as the information technology (IT) sector has experienced continued labor market slack. Download EPI's NEW (May 2004) issue guide on offshoring in PDF format. The report includes data, charts, fact sheets and links to other resources on the topic of offshoring.

An audit conducted by the Government Accounting Office (GAO) found access control lists on the FDIC's network could be modified by anyone with access to the network, some 6,300 people, INCLUDING CONTRACTORS. "With the ability to read, copy, or modify these files, an intruder could disable or disrupt network operations by taking control of sensitive and critical network resources." Download GAO Report issued May 28, 2004 in PDF format.

The practice of requiring U.S. workers to train their replacements has become a flashpoint in the intensifying debate over "offshoring" jobs to other countries and the use of temporary visas(L-1 Visa) by foreign nationals who come here to learn their employers' systems. "I guess I wasn't paying attention when it was affecting other trades or professions," said Cliff Cotterrill former Agilent Technologies Inc. IT worker, who was laid off on May 28, 2004. Download complete story in PDF format.

John Stollenwerk, President of American Shoemaker Allen-Edmonds, was not preparing to send his operations overseas. Instead, Mr. Stollenwerk gambled on staying put and reconfiguring his factory floor, which re-opened on January 5, 2004, with a new manufacturing method that could increase production and cut down on mistakes. The moves required an investment of $1 million, or 1.1 percent of the company's 2003 sales. Download complete story in PDF format.

The CWA adds that the deal includes rehiring of "several hundred workers who had been laid off at SBC Southwest and SBC Midwest," and that the carrier has agreed to cooperate to repatriate technical support jobs that had been outsourced overseas through a contract with Accenture.Outsourcing overseas, or "offshoring," has become a highly contentious issue in the U.S. Download complete story in PDF format.

The bill, sponsored by Assemblywoman Carol Liu, D-South Pasadena, is aimed at addressing controversial situations such as the use of customer assistance call centers in India and Mexico by a contractor to the state's food stamp program. Liu's bill was approved 44-26. It now goes before the state Senate, where Liu doesn't anticipate trouble with passage. Governor Arnold Schwarzeneggar hasn't indicated where he stands on the issue, Liu said. Download complete article in PDF format.

"Some Illinois lawmakers have joined the fight against overseas outsourcing, but critics say they're pulling their punches. It's a watered-down version of a bill introduced by Sen. Carol Ronen, a Chicago democrat, which would have required that all state contract work be done by U.S. workers. Download complete article from Medill New Service in PDF format.

"For 14 months between May 16, 2002 and July 22, 2003, HCL BPO Services, the 100 percent owned subsidiary of Shiv Nadar promoted HCL Technologies, had some 125 agents working in seven teams soliciting financial contributions for the Republican Party." Download complete article from May 16, 2004 Hindustan Times On-Line edition in PDF format.

"There is no easy, all-encompassing solution. Probably the real answer is the one expressed by CNN's Lou Dobbs, who has become a leading media critic of shipping jobs abroad. He thinks it is a matter of making job destruction through outsourcing socially unacceptable." Download complete Op-Ed Opinion from the May 2004 issue of CWA NEWS by Morton Bahr, President of the Communications Workers of America in PDF format.

"Start a grassroots political movement to get our elected politicians in the state and nation to write legislation prohibiting any job outsourcing when taxpayer money is involved in a contract." Download complete article in PDF format.

"I always thought that the U.S. Senate and House were supposed to represent the USA!, not India." Download Commentary by Chris Chatwood in PDF format.

"Putting one's head in the sand and pretending everyone will benefit from globalization is foolish. The problem with globalization today is precisely that a few may benefit and a majority may be worse off, unless government takes an active role in managing and shaping it. This is the most important lesson of the debate over outsourcing." Download comments by Joesph E. Stiglitz, winner of 2001 Nobel Prize for economics in PDF format.

"The purpose of my letter is to request your support of State Comptroller Dan Hynes request for a positive recommendation from the Illinois Procurement Policy Board not to do business with expatriate corporations awarded contracts with various State of Illinois agencies. Companies that locate offshore to evade their Illinois tax burdens. Download copy of letter to Terrence Healy, Chairman of the Illinois Procurement Policy Board in PDF format.

More U.S. IT companies are adopting a new strategy in India to deal with the offshoring backlash at home. Instead of sub-contracting their projects to third-party vendors in India like they used to, they are setting up their own development centers there. Download complete article in PDF format.

"Why do we want to spend our dollars in New Delhi when New Smyrna Beach needs our help?", said Florida House Democratic Leader Doug Wiles of St. Augustine. Gov. Jeb Bush calls opposition ill-considered and politically motivated. In a time when corporations do business all over the world, banning contractors with foreign workers would be an "expensive exercise in futility", Bush wrote this Spring in response to concerns of state Senator Walter "Skip" Campbell Jr., D-Tamarac. Download complete article in PDF format.

""It doesn't matter what your job is, how good you are, how loyal you are, or how much you "think" they need you. Someone will eventually take your job and give it to a cheaper foreign worker." Download complete article in PDF format.

"It now appears that this deeply disturbing episode, in which Iraqi prisoners were beaten, sexually assaulted and forced to perform simulated sexual acts, among other things, may have involved not only soldiers but also private contractors hired as interrogators." Download complete article in PDF format.

(May 4, 2004) - Illinois State Comptroller Dan Hynes blocked $2 Million in state payments Monday to Bermuda-based Accenture Corp. and asked a state panel to determine whether Illinois should contract with companies that locate offshore to soften their tax burdens. Download May 4, 2004 Chicago Sun-Times article and Press Release from Illinois Comptoller Dan Hynes Website in PDF format.

CWA was prominently featured in the hit TV show, The West Wing for the second week in a row. The real CWA President Morton Bahr was seen in our commercial on the show on Wednesday, April 28, 2004 where he stressed that outsourcing is a huge issue, with millions of jobs now at risk, and urged viewers to check out CWA's action website, www.Techsunite.org. External links to VIEW Commercial and also go to Techsunite's website.

This Wednesday night, April 28th, you'll see CWA's President on the hit TV series "The West Wing" for the second week in a row fighting the offshoring of good American jobs. In Last week's West Wing episode, CWA was featured prominently in the plotline as our President battled to save thousands of computer programing jobs from going overseas, and also raising our concerns over media concentration with the fictional White House staff. Download flyer for posting and distribution in PDF format.

YOU CAN HELP "KEEP ILLINOIS JOBS IN AMERICA." Illinois State Senate democrats torpedoed their own legislation, SB 2375, when they cowered to corporate interests such as Citicorp and the Illinois Chamber of Commerce and supported an amended version that destroyed the bills original intent to "Keep Illinois Jobs in the USA!" Download a take action notice in PDF format.

Illinois Lt. Governor Pat Quinn joins the Reverend Jesse Jackson and other community leaders to sound alarm on the pending $1.1 TRILLION merger of Bank One and JP Morgan Chase public hearing and press conference held at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.Download Press Release in PDF format.

"The President should use this week's Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT) meetings to press the Chinese government to respect workers' fundamental human rights and to protect the rights and interests of workers here at home." Download AFL-CIO April 20, 2004 Press Release and copy of letter from John J. Sweeney to President Bush in PDF format

"If we don't get cooperation from our elected officials, then we have to use the next step, which is the ballot initiative," said Richard Armstrong, president of the National Hire American Citizens Society, an anti-outsourcing group in Parker that claims 6,500 members nationwide. Download complete story in PDF format.

Michael Emmons logged almost six years as a software developer for Seimens ICN in Orlando, Florida. Instead of outsourcing jobs to India, Seimens had a plan that was every bit as controversial, importing Indians on L-1 Visas to do the work in the USA. Seimans American workers had to train their Indian replacements in order to receive severance pay. "They told us this is the wave of the future, and we just have to go with the flow," Emmons says. The experience radicalized Mike Emmons, who was once casual about politics. He is planning to run for Congress from Florida's seventh district to fight outsourcing. Download complete article from the Christian Science Monitor in PDF format.

There's a new push in Congress to increase by 20,000 the number of foreign workers holding H-1B visas. The bill, introduced by Rep. LAMAR SMITH (R-Texas), is supported by "Compete America", a coalition of manufacturers, academic groups and IT vendors such as MICROSOFT Corp., INTEL Corp., and SUN Microsystems Inc. Download complete article from Computerworld in PDF format.

"U.S. telecom giant AT$T is looking at acquiring Indian call centres in a bid to reduce cost. The U.S. company has been outsourcing to Indian business process outsourcing (BPO) and call centre companies for some time, but is now looking at a captive unit in India." Download complete story from The Economic Times of India in PDF format.

"By January, AT$T Wireless was in the advanced stages of plans to move overseas more than 3,000 positions in its computer operations and customer service, according to the Wall Street Journal." (It backed off from the plan only after agreeing to be purchased by Cingular.) Some employees became part of AT$T Wireless's "buddy program," in which consultants from Indian outsourcing companies Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro were assigned to AT$T Wireless employees to learn their jobs. Download complete story from CIO magazine in PDF format. You may also download the complete " AT$T Wireless Knowledge Transfer Plan" from Tata Consultancy, which was posted on this website on 10/10/03 and is now posted directly below this story.

Tata Consultancy Services manual used by AT&T Wireless to train offshore replacement workers. Download copy in PDF format.

" In short, a comprehensive response to corporate outsourcing requires a sea change in the outlook of both the U.S. public and its politicians toward America's role in the world." Download Policy Brief by: Sarah Anderson and John Cavanagh of Foreign Policy in Focus, A Think Tank Without Walls, in PDF format.

Defenders of offshoring keep repeating bad arguments: Keep this article handy and you can catalogue them by number. Sometimes, they don't even give rational arguments, just slick puffery about the wonderfullness of capitalism, technology and trade, often combined with insinuations about offshoring's opponents. They are masters of question-ducking, subject changing, and deliberately misframing the opposing position. But their arguments usually boil down to one of the following: Download the 20 questions and answers in PDF format from the American Engineering Association (AEA).

"The US Chamber of Commerce, the apex body of American business representing some three million companies, has decided to fight the gathering legislative moves against outsourcing of jobs to India and other low-cost nations around the world." Download complete article in PDF format.

For the first time in the history of the U.S. Senate, a country-focused caucus called "Friends of India" has been formed, it was announced on March 30, 2004. Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Hillary Rodhan Clinton (D-New York) will be co-chairs of the "Friends of India" caucus. Interesting that you can only read about this in the India Press. Download story from India online news in PDF format.

John Pardon is a former technical writer, software engineer and database administrator who has worked for a number of software development and IT corporations. Since his departure from NCR in early 2003, he has written on the topics of outsourcing and the H-1B and L-1 Visa Programs, inspired by his own experiences and those of other U.S. IT workers, notably Scott Kirwin, founder of the Information Technology Professionals Association of America and Michael Emmons. Emmons' story was told in Computerworld's sister publication, CIO magazine, "The Radicalization of Mike Emmons". Download John Pardon's Opinion Article posted in Computerworld on April 12, 2004 in PDF format.

Ron Hira, chair of the career and workforce policy committee for IEEE-USA, the Washington policy and lobbying unit of New York based Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Inc., was online to field questions about outsourcing and its effect on tech companies and workers in the United States. Download complete text of his April 2, 2004 Q&A Online discussion moderated by Cynthia L. Webb of the Washington Post in PDF format.

"Every weeknight for more than a year, "Lou Dobbs Tonight", on CNN has insistently covered and condemned sending American jobs to other countries, aka- OUTSOURCING or OFFSHORING." Tune in everynight at 5PM CDT on CNN. (RE-PLAYED at 10PM) Download complete article in PDF format.

As U.S. companies shift jobs to low-paid workers in developing nations, a growing number of economists and politicians worry that offshore outsourcing could damage the nation's fiscal health by draining tax dollars. Few researchers have studied offshoring's potential drain on public coffers. Download complete story in PDF format.

IBM is to acquire Daksh e-Services, the third biggest call centre in India, for $160M to $170M in a deal likely to strengthen corporate America's commitment to offshore outsourcing. IBM's acquisition is the largest deal of its kind in India's technology services industry and comes as the controversy over outsourcing has moved to center stage in the US election campaign. Download complete article in PDF format.

Lucent Technologies Inc. Tuesday said it dismissed four executives in China after discovering "incidents" and internal-control deficiencies in its operations there. Download complete story from the WSJ in PDF format.

"The answer for the Cape Cod tourist industry is simple. Hire American and, if you must, charge more for lodging and food. And at the bottom of your brochure, in big bold type, print "SERVICE PROVIDED BY ALL-AMERICAN KIDS WORKING TO EARN MONEY TO BUILD FOR THEIR FUTURE." Link to VDARE.COM website for full-story.

The Evening Standard newspaper reported that organised gangs had offered a year in wages to India's call centre staff in return for access to UK credit card details. Download complete story from BBC News in PDF format.

"This may be just the tip of the iceberg, " said Beth Givens, director of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a San Diego advocacy group. "There could be many, many more such incidents that we just don't know about." Download full article by David Lazarus of the San Francisco Chronicle in PDF format.

Dial the toll-free number for information on a Gateway computer order and there is a good chance the call will be answered at the Sutherland Global Services offices on Jefferson Road in Henrietta, OR in Southerland's center in Chennai, India. Questions about a Sony product, a Hewlett-Packard printer or Intuit's Quicken software? Calls to those help lines also could reach India, where Southerland employs more than 3,000 people. Download complete story in PDF format.

Dave Skotarczyk, President of CWA Local 4050 in Detroit, said this is a jobs issue rather than money. "We are on the job restoring service in snow storms so its not unreasonable to ask for access to the jobs of the future. We don't want SBC outsourcing our work to India." Download complete story in PDF format.

CWA Local 4250 SBC/Ameritech call center members and retirees from Lansing and Harvey,Illinois took their KEEP ILLINOIS JOBS IN AMERICA message to the street Friday to build support for negotiators hammering out contracts in Chicago and Washington, DC. Download complete article from the Hammond, Indiana Times in PDF format.

"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man - brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him. For then it costs nothing to be a Patriot." That's the epigram by which the leader of the Rescue American Jobs Foundation, created last June to fight the exporting of service jobs overseas and the importing of foreign workers to do service jobs here, signs her e-mails, and by that standard, the people meeting at this suburban coffee shop are patriots indeed. Charlene Clingman, a laid off Communications Technican for AT$T in Oakbrook, Illinois and former member of CWA Local 4998 in Oakbrook, Illinois is the head of Rescue American Jobs' Illinois Chapter. Her husband is Bruce Clingman, Secretary Treasurer of CWA Local 4998, who is still an employee of AT$T in Lisle, Illinois. Download complete article by Rick Peristein in PDF format.

Several hundred CWA delegates, attending the annual CWA Legislative and Political Conference in Washington, DC, held a rally on Tuesday, March 30, 2004. U.S. Senator Jon Corzine (D-NJ) will introduce legislation that would prohibit states that get federal funds for welfare and food stamp jobs from sending those jobs outside the USA! Download CWA Press-Release in PDF format.

Australia's unions have warned of a middle-class "backlash" against offshoring, calling for a moritorium on the practice and a full federal Government enquiry into the state of IT employment. Download complete article from news.com.au in PDF format.

The Illinois State Senate voted overwhelmingly, 53 Yes to 4 No, to pass SB 2375 on Thursday, March 25, 2004. NO VOTES were cast by Adeline Geo-Karis (R-31st District), Dan Cronin (R- 21st District), Dale Risinger (R- 37th District) and Dan Rutherford (R- 53rd District. The bill now goes to the Illinois House. Download Bill Status from the Illinois General Assembly website in PDF format.

The Business Roundtable, a 150-member association of company CEO's, issued a New "White Paper" titled; "Securing Growth and Jobs: Improving U.S. Prosperity in a Worldwide Economy" on Wednesday, March 24, 2004. Download a copy of their report in PDF format (36 pages).

A March 2004 report from the Global Technology, Media and Telecommunications Industry Group of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, suggests that Telcos may be hot on the heels of other industries turning to offshoring to cut costs. Download a copy of this NEW OFFSHORING REPORT in PDF format.

"Ladies and gentlemen, in recent days that progressive tradition of global economic engagement has come under calculated assault and tonight I'm here to defend it." "...."Economic isolationists are waving a surrender flag rather than the American flag." Download complete copy of remarks by U.S. Commerce Secretary Donald L. Evans as delivered to the World Affairs Council of Washington, DC at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel on March 23, 2004 in PDF format. (NOTE) The "American Jobs - American Values" Logo on the top left of his website. Readers may want to e-mail Secretary Evans at: devans@doc.gov and question his hypocrisy!

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has condemned the growing use of "offshoring" - outsourcing business services to cheaper, poorer countries. His comments raise the possibility of government action to stem the jobs outflow. German non-wage labor costs are the world's highest. Download complete article in PDF format.

To help keep jobs in Michigan, Gov. Jennifer Granholm will sign a pair of executive directives today to prohibit the state from contracting with businesses that would do the work in foreign countries. Download complete story in PDF format.

THIS IS A MUST READ! Robert L. Hutchings is the Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC). Download a copy of his recent speech to the International Security Management Association in Scottsdale, Arizona on January 14, 2004 in PDF format.

"Corporate leaders need to be on guard and know who their business partners are and what security measures they have in place to protect against loss, whether through unintended leakage of proprietary business information, deliberate thefts of intellectual property, or outright ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE," said Robert L. Hutchings, Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC) while addressing the International Security Management Association in Scottsdale, Arizona, Download complete article in PDF format.

Under the proposal announced today, the Commonwealth's service contract specifications will include a "social responsibility" preference. Download Pennsylvania Governor Rendell Press Release in PDF format.

The official merchandise Web site for President George W. Bush's re-election campaign has sold clothing made in Burma, whose goods were banned by Bush from the U.S. last year to punish its military dictatorship. Violators of the import ban are subject to fines and jail, according to the U.S. Treasury Department. Download complete story in PDF format.

Currently the State's food stamp helpline is staffed by operators in India. The bill passed the State House 135-22, with a few Republicans voting against it. The bill now heads to the State Senate. Download Latest news report in PDF format.

California state Senator Liz Figueroa last week said she would propose legislation prohibiting the movement of Californian's medical and financial data offshore unless assurances of strong privacy safeguards are in place. "Outside the U.S., medical privacy doesn't really mean anything," Figueroa contends. Download complete article in PDF format.

Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, encountering the other side of a tempestuous debate in the United States, sought to assure Indians on Tuesday that the Bush administration would try not to halt the outsourcing of high-technology jobs to their country. In Washington, the Bush White House endorsed Mr. Powell's comments. Download complete story in PDF format.

The AFL-CIO, which represents 13 million American workers, filed the complaint Tuesday with the U.S. Trade Representative's office under Section 301 of the U.S. Trade Act of 1974. The complaint argues FOR THE FIRST TIME that it is an unfair trade practice for countries that belong to the World Trade Organization to violate internationally recognized workers' rights. China became a WTO member during the Clinton administration. President George W. Bush will have 45 days to decide whether to let the complaint proceed. External link to AFL-CIO website for more information and history.

President George W Bush and his political strategist Karl Rove met with Indian Attorney Paresh Shah at a private reception held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on March 3, 2004. Attorney Shah presented them with H-1B recapture and "E" Visa proposals. Rove indicated a willingness by the Bush Administration to look closely at both proposals. The exclusive reception for President Bush netted approximately $One Million for his 2004 re-election campaign. Download complete article from the India Post in PDF format.

"Outsourcing is driven by absolute advantage. Asia has an absolute advantage because of its vast excess supply of skilled and educated labor. With First World capital, technology and business knowhow, this labor can be just as productive as First World labor, but workers can be hired for much less money. Thus, the capitalist incentive to seek the lowest cost and most profit will seek to substitute cheap labor for expensive labor. India and China are gaining, and the First World is losing." Download commentary by Paul Craig Roberts in PDF format.

Ryan Lawson, a bus dispatcher for Mears Transportation and also the brother-in-law of Orlando, Florida CWA Local 3108 President Pam Lawson, was fired by Mears Transportation on/about February 25, 2004. Apparently, Ryan's only fault was his relationship to Pam and that he worked for the bus company(Mears Transportation) that provided the bus drivers that CWA protesters rode to picket the "2004 World Outsourcing Summit" at the Disney Yacht & Beach Club Resort on Monday, February 23, 2004. Download complete story in PDF format.

"America's workers now know that the Bush Administration will do nothing to stop the off-shoring tidal wave. It's up to Congress, as well as state and local governments, to take immediate action on those policy initiatives to dissuade corporations from pursuing business strategies that will further weaken the already fragile U.S. economy. Inaction means that millions of other workers and their families will pay the ultimate economic price of losing their job, their dignity and their way of life. Inaction means the continued wreckage of the American middle class, and inaction means continued distortion of the global economy to benefit corporations at the expense of workers everywhere."Download complete statement issued by the AFL-CIO Executive Council on March 11, 2004 in PDF format.

President Bush and Alan Greenspan believe the best response to the movement of U.S. jobs offshore is the same thing it's always been: Educating U.S. workers so they can get better paying jobs. "Do you have to be reeducated? Maybe not--maybe you just need to accept a lower wage rate," said Paul Kasriel, chief economist at Northern trust in Chicago. Download complete story in PDF format.

U.S. "companies are looking to circumvent the limit by carving out exceptions for the most highly educated employees, figuring there will be less opposition to those workers." Download complete article from a H-1B Visa proponent, the Wall Street Journal in PDF format

Senator John Edwards may be out of the running for the Democratic presidential nomination, but the issue he brought forth remains in the race. Because of his prodding, offshore outsourcing, the transferring abroad of jobs that Americans once naively presumed were theirs in perpetuity, has become a major presidential campaign issue. It's about time! Download complete story in PDF format.

They're calling it the jobless recovery. Wrong. Millions of jobs are being created. They're just not being created here in the United States. Download article by Patrick J. Buchanan in PDF format.

One of the major political issues in the 2004 presidential election is framing up to be outsourcing, the movement of jobs and sometimes entire companies to other countries in search of cheaper labor. Download complete article in PDF format.

And now, debt collectors are quietly moving operations, and hence access to the financial records of millions of U.S. consumers, to places like India, the Philippines and the Carribbean, where workers are paid just a fraction of what they'd make in the United States and where tough U.S. privacy laws have no jurisdiction. Download complete story in PDF format.

Kentucky had ponied up $7.6 million in cash and incentives to land Sykes Enterprises over 4 1/2 years ago. Officials were betting that computer help-desk call centers would instantly link Appalachia to the New Economy. And for a while, the plan worked. Sykes eventually trained more than 3,000 workers to help frustrated personal-computer callers from coast to coast. No longer. As Hazard, Kentucky and other small U.S. towns have learned, the phone links on which they had banked their hopes have quickly zipped to even more remote places such as India, China and Central America. Download complete article in PDF format.

The measure, introduced by Senator Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., as an ammendment to a corporate tax bill, also would prohibit agencies from procuring goods or services from companies that send work abroad, with some exceptions. Senators endorsed the bipartisan amendment by a vote of 70 to 26. Download complete article in PDF format.

"We are currently re-evaluating all long-term business plans in light of merger agreement with Cingular, particularly plans for PROJECT PINNACLE and involved job reductions, " said David Caouette, a company spokesman. He said that further implementation of Project Pinnacle "has been largely suspended" and that there was a good chance that "this level of reductions will simply not happen." Download complete story in PDF format.

"Public hearings will enable us to ask these banks how many Illinois jobs they plan to outsource to foreign countries," Quinn said. Steve Tisza, President CWA Local 4250 attended the press conference on behalf of CWA along with representatives from the Illinois AFL-CIO, Bethel New Life, Center for Neighborhood Technology, Chicago Coalition For The Homeless and many others. Download Lt Governor Quinn's Press Release in PDF format.

The outsourcing of help desks (In New York)dates to mid-2000, but food stamp advocates and unions that represent state employees were unaware of the practice until notified by Newsday earlier this week. Download complete Newsday, Inc. article in PDF format.

In an article from "The Telegraph" in Calcutta, India, reporter K. P. Nayar states; " In Florida, the fight over export of American jobs spilled over into the streets when a group of protesters chanting "stop outsourcing" trespassed into Walt Disney property to attack those attending a conference on outsourcing." Download complete article by K.P. Nayar from The Telegraph online news in Calcutta, India in PDF format.

On March 1, 2004, WKMG/CBS Channel 6 in Orlando, Florida did a 5 minute Special Report on their 11PM News of the February 23, 2004 CWA Protest at the Disney Yacht & Beach Club Resort where the 2004 World Outsourcing Summit was being held. Avaya, a CWA employer was a major sponsor of the summit. Over 100 major corporations, including AT$T and IBM were attendees. I suggest that you RIGHT CLICK on this file to SAVE on your desktop and OPEN in your Media Player after downloading. File size is 8.33 MB.

WKMG CBS/Channel 6 Orlando will air a special report on the CWA Protest at the 2004 World Outsourcing Summit at the Disney Yacht & Beach Club in Lake Buena Vista, Florida at 11PM EST Tonight. VIEW a 30 second highlight. RIGHT CLICK AND SAVE TO DESKTOP and view with your media player. Will have the full report on this website as soon as its available.

CWA activists and Mike Emmons, Democratic candidate for U.S. Congress in the 7th District of Florida, kept up a loud presence right outside the room where top managers of more than 100 companies, including AT$T, Avaya and IBM, had been exploring how outsourcing and offshoring can benefit their bottom line. Download complete summary in PDF format. VIEW short video in the posting directly above this one.

Special Report: By-Steve Tisza, President CWA Local 4250 from the CWA Communications & Technologies Leadership Conference in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Download PDF file to view pictures taken at CWA Rally at the 2004 World Outsourcing Summit being held at the Disney Yacht and Beach Club Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.

SPECIAL REPORT: By Steve Tisza, President CWA Local 4250 from the CWA Communications and Technologies Leadership Conference in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Download report in PDF format.

"Like Father, Like Son". Download article from the Toronto Star in PDF format.

Around 50 members of CWA Local 3250 picketed outside the AT$T building on Salem Road in Rockdale, Georgia. With the slogan of "Fight For Our Future," the picketers protested what union members listed as an increasingly hostile work enviornment, a growing number of union job layoffs, outsourcing of various jobs overseas and alleged breeches in the union's work contract. Download complete article in PDF format.

After all witnesses were heard, a roll call vote of the full State Government Committee was 7 YEA and 2 NAY. Download PDF file with links to CONTACT YOUR ILLINOIS STATE SENATOR NOW!

In 2002, New Jersey was the first state to introduce "Keep Jobs in America" legislation. The proposal, by Democratic State Senator Shirley Turner came after the state's supplier for electronic food-stamp and welfare benefits moved its call center to India. Turner's bill passed the state Senate unanimously, however lobbying from business, including representatives from the Indian IT industry, quashed the Assembly hearing. Last month, she reintroduced the bill. In her 10 years as a legislator, she said no bill has ever generated as much interest. Download complete article in PDF format.

Food stamp recipients in California no longer speak to customer service representatives within the state, but they are not supposed to know that. Operators at call centers in India and Mexico, who work for a company that handles transactions, are trained not to reveal their location. In August 2001, California awarded a $441 million, 7 year contract to CHICAGO-BASED CITICORP Electronic Financial Services. Callers requesting "live help" are transferred to India for English speakers and to Mexico for Spanish speakers. Download complete article in PDF format.

Lost your food stamp card? If your in Minnesota, the state probably will transfer you to India to straighten it out. EFunds was routing the calls to Green Bay, Wisc. but switched them to India in February 2002. CHICAGO-BASED CITICORP, the only other bidder, also uses a call center in India but wouldn't allow the Department of Human Services to monitor the calls, so they chose EFunds. Download complete article in PDF format.

The H-1B visa program is controversial. Critics, including unions say it allows businesses to fill jobs with cheap foreign labor rather than hiring Americans at higher wages. Download complete article in PDF format.

"After today, USCIS will not accept any new H-1B petitions for first-time employment subject to the Fiscal Year (FY) 2004 annual cap." Download today's Press Release from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in PDF format.

In December 2003, the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers (WashTech) commissioned a 410-respondent national Web survey of technology workers. The survey was conducted by The Evans/McDonough Company. The survey was checked to ensure proportional representation of technology workers geographically and demographically in the United States, using U.S. Bureau and Labor Statistics reports, U.S. Census information, and prior research on technology workers available to the public. Download survey summary in PDF format.

"Many young engineering graduates have discovered that they invested in acquiring skills for which there are no jobs and are headed to law school in an effort to retrieve their future. I know software engineers who are substitute teachers in middle schools, and others who are trying to organize rock bands to play the club and bar circuits. They have no idea what to retrain for, and neither do the economists who tell them retraining is the answer." Download complete article in PDF format.

Keith Adams, former President of Cincinnati, Ohio Communications Workers of America Local 4351, who was laid off from AT$T because of outsourcing, "is among a growing number of U.S. workers who say the H-1B Visa is a front that allows companies , such as AT$T, to move more work overseas." The remnents of the rank and file of CWA Local 4351 recently voted to merge with Illinois CWA Local 4998 due to their membership base being decimated by AT$T's quarterly layoffs of the unionized AT$T American workforce. Its no wonder AT$T is no longer called AMERICAN Telephone $ Telegraph! Download complete story in PDF format.

Heidelberg India, an Indian printing company, will begin extensive marketing of its capabilities in Europe and the United States soon. Download full story in PDF format.

U.S. immigration officials may be just a week away from getting enough applications to fill the H-1B visa cap this year, shutting down a pipeline for companies that hire foreign high-tech workers. Download complete story from Computerworld in PDF format.

AT$T Wireless workers say they have trained consultants from Tata Consultancy and Wipro and believe their jobs will be lost to the Indian companies. Download complete Seattle Post-Intelligencer story in PDF format

Lawmakers from both parties attacked President Bush yesterday for comments made by his chief economist, who said the offshore outsourcing of American jobs is a good thing. Among the most vocal of critics was Iowa Republican Senator Charles Grassley. Grassley said; "IF THERE WAS A POLICY LIKE THAT OF A PRESIDENT, HE WOULDN'T DESERVE TO BE PRESIDENT." Download full article in PDF format.

The Texas Labor Champions invite all activists in the Dallas Area to participate in a sign waiving protest against Electronic Data Systems (EDS)in Plano, Texas on Monday, February 16, 2004 - 6:00AM til Noon. Download flyer in PDF format with location and contact information.

TO VIEW: Link to streaming video of the full committee oversight hearing on L Visas: "Losing Jobs Through Laissez-faire Policies?" Witnesses that testified included: Dan Stein,FAIRUS; Mike Gildea,AFL-CIO; Pat Fluno, Displaced IT worker; Sona Shah, Displaced IT worker and Harris Miller, ITAA.

Following is a statement by President Morton Bahr, Communications Workers of America, on remarks by President Bush's top economic advisor in praise of offshore outsourcing in PDF format.

The PRESIDENT'S annual report to Congress on the health of the U.S. economy states: "The gains from trade that take place over the Internet or telephone lines are no different then the gains from trade in physical goods transported by ship or plane." "When a good or SERVICE is produced at a lower cost in another country, it makes sense to import it rather than to produce it domestically." (Was he wrong on a premptive War in Iraq? Could he be wrong on the economy?)Download complete article in PDF format.

Few cared when the jobs of "little people" left the country. But now the flight of jobs from the United States has moved beyond back-office functionaries to IT guys and legal analyists, and salaries that once put bread on middle-class American tables are paying for chapati in India. Download complete article by Jesse Kornbluth in the Los Angeles Times in PDF format .

Illinois State Representative Larry McKeon (D-13th District/Chicago) introduced HB 4550 on Tuesday, February 3, 2004. The bill was referred to the House Rules Committee. A hearing date has not be scheduled as yet. Download PDF file containing the full text of HB 4550.

Illinois State Senator Carol Ronen (D-7th District/Chicago) introduced SB 2375 on Tuesday, February 3, 2004. The bill was referred to the State Government Committtee. A hearing will be held on Tuesday, February 10, 2004 at 1:00PM in the Stratton Bldg A-1, Springfield, Illinois. Download PDF file containing full text of SB 2375.

Otherwise, republicans will turn their best economic argument against them. "Democrats must pledge themselves to rescinding NAFTA, WTO and present FAST TRACK AGREEMENTS, and make bilateral agreements with other nations that are clearly in the interests of American workers and the long-term interests of our country." Download OP-ED By: Chuck Kelly of OpEdNews.com in PDF format.

In the past few days, these heavyweights, in remarks at meetings in Davos, London, Washington and elsewhere, have scoffed at the rising hysteria in the United States against offshore outsourcing fueled by American politicians facing re-election and pressure from their constituents worried about near-term job loss. At Davos, former US President Bill Clinton rubbished the anti-globalization forces-- saying; "THEY ARE MOURNING FOR A PAST THAT NEVER EXISTED." Download complete article from the on-line Times of India in PDF format.

New Jersey State Senator Shirley Turner (D-Mercer) and Assemblyman Reed Gusciora (D-Mercer) will have a second go at it. Both have reintroduced their legislation in the Senate and Assembly for consideration this year, joining legislators in seven other states who had followed Turner's lead. Download complete article in PDF format.

You can VIEW the House Committee on International Relations Hearing at 1:00 PM (EST)by clicking on this file and LIVE WEBCAST OF MEETING. Or, by going to http://wwwc.house.gov/international_relations

A bill authored by Sen. Jeff Drozda (R-Westfield) that will ban state outsourcing in Indiana passed the Senate on February 2, 2004 by a vote of 39-10! Senate Bill 4 establishes that all state contracts be performed in Indiana or the United States by citizens or immigrants eligible for employment in this country. The bill will now move to the House of Representatives. Download Senator Drozda Press Release in PDF format.

The House Committee on International Relations, chaired by Illinois Congressman Henry Hyde, will conduct an OPEN hearing on L Visas on Wednesday, February 4, 2004 at 1:00 PM EST. Download agenda and a e-mail link to request that Mike Emmons be added as a witness. File is in PDF format.

Challenger, Gray & Christmas, an outplacement firm, says: "Outsourcing jobs overseas and increased merger and acquisition activity could boost the number of layoffs this year, even as the economy improves. This could be a big year for such transactions.." Download complete article in PDF format.

"A high percentage of telecom workers are in customer service and information technology, both areas where positions are increasingly moving overseas." WSJ article By Shawn Young and William M. Bulkeley in PDF format. NOTE: It's just a matter of time before IBM ships the work Offshore!

Not even the sky is the limit for HP CEO Carly Florina. Florina has added to an already rich transportation resume by joining the Presidential Commission on the implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy. Download complete article in PDF format.

Mike Emmons, a former IT worker at Siemans Corp in Orlando, Florida forced to train his L-1 Visa replacement, was scheduled to be a witness at the House International Relations Committee Hearing on L-1 Visas, scheduled for Wednesday, February 4, 2004, was abruptly recalled for no reason. Could it be certain committee members found that Mike is a possible candidate to challenge incumbant Republican Congressman John Mica (R-7) from Florida? Download complete story and a link to e-mail the Chairman of the House International Relations Committee, Henry Hyde from Illinois requesting that MIKE EMMONS is immediately re-stated as a witness.

"Enter the L-1. The advantages for EMPLOYERS are obvious: there is no cap on the overall number, which means a company can bring in as many L-1 pros as it likes, even in groups. There are no stipulations such as paying market salaries or ensuring that an American citizen couldn't have done the job. Best of all, clearance takes as much as six to eight weeks less than for the H-1B." Download complete article from the On-Line edition of The ECONOMICTIMES.COM In INDIA in PDF format.

With the next round of presidential primary elections coming up on Tuesday, billboards are popping up across South Carolina with a political message that might resonate with any Democratic contender: "Lost your Job to Free Trade and Offshoring Yet?" Download complete article in PDF format.

"Outsourcing is simply the latest manifestation of free trade." --- "This can be difficult for workers who are displaced and need to find jobs in new growing industries.But the economy overall benefits." Download this PDF file containing "Ask the White House" Q&A, with a link to respond to this official Bush Administration Policy on middle-class American JOBS being Offshored!

TAKE ACTION!! - On January 11, 2004, The CBS News show 60 Minutes ran a segment called "Out of India" regarding offshore outsourcing, reported by Morey Safer. This segment was not objective in its coverage of this important American middle-class jobs issue. Click on this external link to send your message to the Producer of 60 Minutes News.

Plans for wireless directory (411) raise concerns about privacy. After last year's campaigns against spammers and telemarketers, lawmakers on capitol Hill are poised to tackle the next privacy frontier: the nation's 150 million wireless phones. Download complete NY Times article by Lisa Napoli in PDF format.

"The conference was held discreetly in the Westin New York Hotel in Times Square last week---The main objections came from a handfull of protesters---waving signs that said things like "Stop Sending Jobs Overseas" and "Put America Back to Work." No one paid them much attention." "You want a national security issue? Trust me, this threat to the long-term U.S. economy is a big one. Why it's not a thunderous issue in the presidential campaign is beyond me." Download complete NY Times article in PDF format.

"When auto-manufacturing jobs went to Mexico, we said we'd push the bar up and create better jobs," said WILLIAM DALEY, who guided NAFTA through Congress for former President Clinton and is president of SBC Communications Inc., a San Antonio, Texas telecommunications operator. "Can you keep going up the job chain?" Download WSJ on-line article by Bob Davis in PDF format.

The US Senate passed the much-delayed omnibus Appropriations Bill totaling $328 billion on Friday, containing provisons limiting agencies receiving federal funding from outsourcing subcontracts to foreign countries. However, according to some Congressional aides, the restrictions may only affect a few companies that do business with the government and countries like India may not feel its impact. Download complete article in PDF format.

According to a research by Professor Ron Hira of Rochester Institute of Technology, India companies are abusing the temporary work visas by making a heavy use of H-1B and L-1. Indian IT companies with operations in the U.S. are the biggest applicants for H-1B visas and are heavy users of L-1 visas, according to a study based upon statistics from Security and Exchange Commission filings. Download complete article in PDF format.

Under George Bush, America has lost more than 3 million private sector jobs, and 1 million jobs have been lost overseas. Not only are we losing jobs; we are losing high-paying jobs. Outsourcing has affected everyone from call center workers to computer programmers. Download complete Edwards Fact Sheet on His Plan to Keep and Create High-Tech Jobs in PDF format.

Maryland delegate Pauline Menes, a Democrat, reintroduced a bill (HB 183) that would ban outsourcing of government work. Download a copy of the bill introduced by Delegate Menes on January 21, 2004 in PDF format.

The CWA Research Department is starting a new web log (aka:blog) of news articles on outsourcing and offshoring. Download the FIRST issue in PDF format

In hopes that public attention will keep more jobs in the USA, John Bauman, founder of The Organization for the Rights of American Workers (T.O.R.A.W.), is rallying his forces in New York City on Wednesday and Thursday at an Offshore Outsourcing Seminar being held at the Westin Times Square Hotel in midtown Manhattan. In addition to concerns about offshore outsourcing, T.O.R.A.W. is concerned that companies are bringing in foreign workers on H-1B and L-1 Visas and replacing American workers. If you are in the midtown Manhattan area, please join John and T.O.R.A.W. on the picket line January 20 & 21, 2004! Download the complete article in PDF format.

Democratic candidates have remained relatively quiet on technology as the presidential primaries get underway, but recent controversy over offshoring could provide a catalyst to raise the profile of high-tech concerns in the campaign. Download complete article in PDF format. (Note-Emphasis added)

BIG BLUE is outsourcing thousands of high-paid programming jobs to offshore locations and is attempting to coverup the shift to its own employees. That's according to an article in today's Wall Street Journal which says it has seen internal memos from IBM confirming the shift. Download On-Line WSJ article in PDF format.

"You know, there are four or five times as many smart, driven people in China than there are in the USA. And there's another four or five, three or four times as many people in India that are smarter or as smart or have more drive. And if technology is now going to basically reduce location as a barrier to competition, then essentially you've got something like whatever that was, seven or nine times, more smart, committed people that are now competing in this marrketplace against certain activities," Download entire story in PDF format. REMEMBER Lacy's remarks the next time you DON'T SHOP AT SEARS!

"Bush's proposal is intended to include every type of worker in the USA! There are no exceptions, unless of course you are a politician." Download January 17, 2004 Job Destruction Newsletter by Rob Sanchez in PDF format.

"In November 2001, Prime Minister Vajpayee and I committed our countries to a strategic partnership. Since then, our two countries have strengthened bilateral cooperation significantly in several areas. Today we announce the next steps in implementing our shared vision. The United States and India agree to EXPAND cooperation in three specific areas: civilian nuclear activities, civilian space programs and HIGH-TECHNOLOGY TRADE." Download January 12, 2004 Press Release from the White House website in PDF format.

"America is in the midst of an enormous job outsourcing boom that gives every indication of accelerating. In addition to the continued massive hemorrhaging of America's manufacturing and blue-collar jobs that began two decades ago, we now have a huge and growing crisis involving the flight of millions of high-tech and white-collar jobs. If appropriate action is not taken to address the factors propelling this massive exodus, it is not an exaggeration to say that America is headed toward a has-been status." Download complete article in PDF format.

"AS A RESULT OF OUTSOURCING, OFFSHORE PRODUCTION and INTERNET HIRES, THE U.S. RECOVERY IS CREATING JOBS FOR FOREIGNERS, NOT AMERICANS." Download complete article in PDF format.

"The jobless recovery in the American economy, weakly echoed in Europe, reinforces complaints in all the Western industrial countries that employers and stockholders enrich themselves while workers' wages fall or remain static. Defenders of free trade irritably reply that outsourced jobs will be replaced by those demanding higher skills, and that workers should go out and retrain themselves." Download complete article in PDF format.

Union activists are planning to inject the controversial topic of OFFSHORE OUTSOURCING of technology jobs into the 2004 presidential race. Download complete article with several online information links in PDF format.

Continued high levels of new immigrant employment at a time when job prospects for native-born Americans have dwindled represent an issue that should be part of the national dialogue among ALL candidates for president. ALL candidates must take a stand on this crucial labor market issue. America needs a comprehensive, carefully thought through national immigration policy that takes labor market impacts into consideration. Download complete article with an on-line link to download a NEW report by the Northeastern University Center For Labor Market Studies in PDF format.

A federal bill to give consumers the right to know where service representatives at call centers are located, in the United States or overseas, has been introduced by Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) Download article from the January 2004 issue of the CWA News in PDF format.

View 30 second commercial by former governor Jessee Ventura for InFone. Windows MediaPlayer 9 Series or QuickTime required to view. Free downloads available on this external link to infone.com

" A source, who asked not to be named because he is still an employee in the company's San Jose operations, said company communications indicated ALL Customer-Care Representatives would be based overseas." Download complete article in PDF format.

"In this time of giving, it's interesting how strong the element of greed is. I represent people in Illinois and Indiana who work for a global corporation named AT$T. This is a corporation that advertises to the public the self-proclaimed belief that, "AT$T Cares." Download January 4, 2004 LTE by Daniel P. Danaher, President CWA Local 4998.

"We are concerned that the United States may be entering a new economic era in which American workers will face direct global competition at almost every job level, from machinist to the software engineer to the Wall Street analyst. ANY worker whose job does not require daily face-to-face interaction is now in jeopardy of being replaced by a lower-paid, equally skilled worker thousands of miles away." Download complete article in PDF format.

Recent economic data show the technology sector is perking up, with U.S. firms posting their first profits in years. Cici Mattiuzzi, director of the career services office for the College of Engineering & Computer Science at Cal State Sacramento, Ca. said she had never seen job prospects for tech grads so dismal in her 25 year career. "The people I talk with at the huge companies here---Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle---all indicate that they are hiring. BUT they are NOT HIRING IN THE UNITED STATES," said Mattiuzzi, who said small firms were telling her the same thing. Download complete LA Times article by Marla Dickerson Staff Writer in PDF format.

India's finance ministry has decided to exempt multinationals with business process outsourcing (BPO) subsidiaries in India from paying tax. Download full story in PDF format.

How we can reclaim a middle-class society. By: Robert Kuttner. This, "The American Prospect" special report has demonstrated that America is needlessly generating a disproportionate number of low-wage jobs, and that other paths are possible. Download complete report in PDF format.

Under Bush's free-trade zealotry, the United States has lost manufacturing jobs for 40 straight months, the longest stretch since the Great Depression. Under Bush, hundreds of thousands of high-tech workers have been brought into the United States to take jobs at wages one-half or a third of those commanded by the U.S. workers they replace. Under Bush, the "outsourcing" and "off-shoring" of U.S. jobs has accelerated, with tens of thousands of jobs once held by high-paid white collar and information-technlogy workers going to Asia. Download complete article in PDF format.

"Clearly, government and the market today are inextricabaly enmeshed, and for this reason, trade is not free. Trade is regulated to the hilt, so that many corporations are now incorrigibly corrupt rent seekers. In this mixed-economy milieu, trends like exporting jobs, and importing cheap labor with visas that do not require employers to give hiring preference to Americans, do not epitomize the classical liberal idea of laissez faire." Download complete article with links to Part One & Two of Ms. Mercer's series of articles on outsourcing in PDF format

Offshore Humor?

"WHY is the Bush recovery different from all other recoveries? -- As Stephen S. Roach, chief economist for Morgan Stanley, has noted, private sector hiring in the current recovery is roughly 7 million jobs shy of what would have been norm in previous recoveries, and U.S. Corporations, high-tech as well as low-tech, are busily hiring employees from lower-wage nations instead of our own." Download complete article in PDF format.

President Bush plans to kick off his reelection year by proposing a program that would make it easier for immigrants to work legally in the United States. Bush said, at his news conference last week, he was preparing to send congress recommendations for an "immigration policy that helps match any willing employer with any willing employee." Bottom Line, if enacted, Bush's proposal will significantly lower the standard of living of all American working families. Download complete Washington Post article by Mike Allen in PDF format.

Forbes.com readers recently voted "White-collar outsourcing" as the most significant business trend of 2003; issues that, when we look back 50 years from now, we say "that still reverberates today." Readers were offered a choice of ten trends from which to choose and they overwhelmingly chose "offshoring" as the most significant business trend of 2003, with 44% of the vote. Download complete article in PDF format which also contains a link to "Forbes Face of the Year", Kiran Karnik, the self-proclaimed voice of the Indian information technology industry as president of NASSCOM, the National Association of Software and Service Companies.

AOL already has a presence in Bangalore, but this would be the first time it has turned to India to help build its flagship Internet software. The company's plans are in line with those of fellow Net biggies Yahoo and Google, adding to fear among U.S. technology workers that their jobs will be shipped offshore. Download complete article in PDF format.

On December 13, 2003, I posted the SBC BellSouth to Outsource Jobs to Convergys News Release on this web Page. It was also sent as a Local 4250 E-mail Alert to a couple hundred union activists with the subject title of Bullshit! Download PDF file with more information regarding this News Release and links to SWITCH TO CINGULAR WIRELESS for a 10 to 15% DISCOUNT!

"In this political campaign season, it appears that many candidates for the Presidency, and many Congressional candidates seem intent on maintaining a complete silence on the H-1B and L-1 foreign worker visa programs amd the entire issue of American white collar job loss. There are exceptions. Mike Emmons is different. Mike Emmons cares about the loss of American jobs." Download letter of endorsement (PDF format) from Union Activist,John C. Pardon, Dayton, Ohio. Also, Check out: http://www.emmonsforcongress.com/EmmonsCongress.html for more information

"The reality is that all of these Information Age jobs are easily exportable. Outsourcing is the corporate rage today, and its even easier to shift information-based technical and service jobs to areas such as India, China, Russia and the Philippines than it is to move manufacturing processes." Download an excellent "In My Opinion" article by Morton Bahr, CWA President from the December 2003 issue of CWANews in PDF format that includes much needed government policy changes from Labor's standpoint.

In a Press Conference on December 15, 2003 RE: Saddam Hussein's capture, President Bush responded to a question about his administration's immigration policy by stating, "We need to have an immigration policy that helps match any willing employer with any willing employee" --"It makes sense that that policy go forward. And we're in the process of working that through now so I can make a recommendation to the Congress." Download complete Washington Times article in PDF format.

WashTech, a Seattle based affiliate of the CWA,has found a sympathetic voice in Olympia: State Representative Zack Hudgins, a former tech worker who has been unable to find a job outside the Legislature. Hudgins plans to sponsor a bill in the upcoming session that would prohibit the use of foreign labor on state service contracts. Download complete article from the Seattle Times in PDF format.

"The unannounced plan,outlined in company documents viewed by The Wall Street Journal, would replace thousands of workers... Some workers are scheduled to be informed of the plan by the end of January. After that they will be expected to TRAIN AN OVERSEAS REPLACEMENT WORKER in the U.S.A. for several weeks." Download complete story by William Bulkeley & Peter Fritsch in PDF format.

Amicus, Britain's largest manufacturing union,says the probe will pressure the government to consider the long term effects of the practice. Earlier efforts to stem the tide of outsourcing failed to persuade the British government, but now Amicus claims to have pulled a major coup by getting MP's from various countries, including France, Germany and Denmark to agree that outsourcing to low-wage economies like India "for short-term profit is not good" and should be opposed. Download complete story in PDF format.

Convergys Corporation will begin providing billing and customer care services to more than 10.5 million additional wireless and wireline subscribers, including Cingular, the joint venture between the domestic wireless divisions of SBC and BellSouth. Download News Release in PDF format.

Offshore Outsourcing is becoming a hot topic in Washington as the 2004 presidential election looms. Download entire article in PDF format.

Last week, India's External Affairs Minister, Yashwant Sinha, addressing the EU-India Business Summit said: "It is in the interest of the Western world to know that we are cheaper and better" - "It is our strength. The world has to deal with it." Download entire article in PDF format.

The U.S. India Political Action Committee (USINPAC), was formed by Indian American owned IT businesses in order to use their political clout to enhance offshoring to India and to promote an easing of any restrictions that H-1B and L-1 Visas contain. They focus on lucrative US government contracts. This PDF file contains links to the leading democratic presidential candidates letters to USINPAC regarding the importation of cheap foreign labor to take our jobs and how some are flagrantly kowtowing to USINPAC! Click on the name of the candidate to read their recent letters to USINPAC!

Harris N Miller is president of the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), which represents over 500 leading IT-related companies in the U.S. Miller is also president of the World Information Technology and Services Alliance, an "association of associations" representing 46 IT associations in the world. Miller, a lackey for the Global IT industry, DOES NOT REPRESENT THE BEST INTERESTS OF AMERICAN IT WORKERS and their families. Download Q&A in PDF format.

The Call Center Consumer's Right to Know Act of 2003 will compel U.S. Corporations to require all their call center representatives to disclose their physical location at the commencement of each telephone call. "Consumers should have the right to know where they are calling, and those that prefer to use American companies should have the right to do so," Kerry said. Download complete position paper in PDF format.

Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) introduced the "Call Center Consumer's Right to Know Act of 2003", Senate Bill S.1873, on Wednesday, November 17, 2003. Senator Kerry's legislation addresses the problem of U.S. corporations moving their call centers, along with hundreds of thousands of American jobs, OVERSEAS! Download the text of S. 1873 in PDF format.

Mike Barton, Director AT$T/ANS Customer Service Operations informed CWA union representatives of his plan to offer VTP to selected job titles (No concurrent involuntary packages will be distributed) in all work centers in his organization on November 24, 2003. Barton’s plan includes “Onshore Outsourcing” the work (high-end switched order) of approximately 67 CSSS bargaining unit employees to Aegis Communications Group in West Virginia, USA! Barton said his annual wage & benefit cost for one (1) CSSS = $88,000/year. The cost of the “Onshore Outsourcer” = $54,000/year. When Aegis Communications Group eventually sends the work “Offshore” the cost will be more like $5,400/year and AT&T’s Mike Barton can say; AT$T didn’t offshore the work, Aegis did! Download VTP notification letter and file showing titles, locations and cap information in PDF format.

India and the United States are poised to sign a breakthrough agreement which will elevate ties and open the latest technology to India industry. "The debate between the two sides has narrowed to the "level" at which the agreement would be signed-by Powell and Sinha or BUSH and VAJPAYEE." READ the February 2003 "Statement of Principles" which was posted on this website on 11/21/03. Download entire article in PDF format.

READ the enclosed "Statement of Principles" signed by the Bush Administration and India to better understand their joint plan to outsource USA high-tech jobs to India. Download a copy of the signed document in PDF format.

CWA President Morty Bahr has sent letters to All Members of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Repesentatives regarding AT$T shipping the work gained from UNE-P competition to Mexico and Canada rather than create new jobs for workers in the United States of America. Download copy of U.S. Senate letter of November 19, 2003 in PDF format.

"AT$T advised the union today (11/18/03) that they are moving UNE-P work to Canada and Mexico from the United States." Download November 18, 2003 letter from CWA President Morty Bahr to the Chairman of the FCC in PDF format.

A Guest Commentary By: Dr. Gene A. Nelson and Frosty Wooldridge. "THE JOB YOU SAVE BY BECOMING AN ACTIVIST TODAY MAY BE YOUR JOB TOMORROW!" Download entire article in PDF format.

Washington Employees "Livid" About Training Replacements - By David Beckman, WashTech News. "Some employees are quietly called into a manager's office and simply told that their jobs are being eliminated. Others are told that they will be participating in a "pilot project" where they are expected to train an employee of an offshore firm how to perform their job." Download complete article in PDF format. In addition, READ the file below titled: "Knowledge Transfer Plan" posted on this website on 10/10/03.

Today's Online WSJ article by Jesse Drunker- "The telecommunications industry is a likely target for future downsizing--even as profitability improves in the wireless sector--since a high percentage of telecom employees work in either customer service or information technology, sectors where jobs are increasingly being outsourced overseas." Download entire article in PDF format. (NOTE) READ! "AT$T Knowledge Transfer Plan" (Train Your Replacement).

NAFTA's failure has cost the United States jobs across the nation. Proponents of new trade agreements that build on NAFTA, such as the proposed Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTTA), have frequently claimed that such deals create jobs and raise incomes in the United States. Download NEW Economic Policy Institute briefing paper issued November 18, 2003 in PDF format.

It's no surprise that the nation that's home to most eager-for-work programmers is India. But the No. 2 country is, unexpectedly, Romania! Download complete article in PDF format.

An Indiana state agency chartered to help unemployed residents find jobs began a controversial IT project this month with the U.S. subsidiary of an offshore software developer, which plans to work on the project. New York based Tata America International Corp. will send up to 65 IT staffers from India to work alongside 18 state employees over the next two years at a government facility in Indianapolis. (Senator Hillary Clinton {D-NY} participated in Tata's grand opening in their New York office earlier this year). Download complete article in PDF format.

Taking advantage of our country's H-1B and L-1 Visa programs, which were designated as a short-term remedy to fill a temporary gap of white-collar professional workers, companies are now utilizing the student and foreign visas as a long-term remedy to lower labor costs. Link to Chicago Federation of Labor (CFL) website to view entire article.

By John J. Sweeney- "Ten years ago this week, Congress voted to approve the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This Thursday, trade ministers from 34 countries will meet in Miami to mark another milestone in negotiations toward a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), which would essentially extend NAFTA to the rest of the hemisphere (except for Cuba)." Download complete article in PDF format.

(NOTE) Washington-based law firm Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld is the law firm AT$T retained to accuse Steve Tisza, CWA Local 4250 President, and four other CWA Local Presidents, of violating the "Economic Espionage Act." Download complete article in PDF format.

"Telecoms are increasingly willing to OUTSOURCE CORE TECHNICAL and BUSINESS functions. This move is a new one in an industry that historically has kept its CRITICAL NETWORKING and TECHNICAL FUNCTIONS close to home." Download entire article in PDF format.

Two of the three major credit-reporting agencies, each holding detailed files on about 220 million U.S. consumers, are in the process of outsourcing sensitive operations abroad, and a third may follow suit shortly, industry officials acknowledged for the first time. Privacy advocates say the outsourcing of files that include Social Security numbers and complete credit histories could lead to a surge in identity theft because U.S. laws cannot be enforced overseas. Download David Lazarus San Francisco Chronicle article in PDF format.

Download latest Job Destruction Newsletter by Rob Sanchez at: www.ZaZona.com in PDF format.

IT IS RARE that a day goes by without US and UK reports of yet another company retrenching local staff and sending the work offshore. It could be in computing or in call-centres but the flow of work continues. Download complete article in PDF format.

Sometimes the best way to learn about H-1B is to see what the immigration attorneys are saying. In this case Alice Yardum-Hunter whined a lot about the fact that the H-1B yearly cap dropped, which would be expected from an immigration lawyer, but she also revealed a few other gems for us to ponder. Download Job Destruction Newsletter by Rob Sanchez of www.ZaZona.com in PDF format.

There is a growing apprehension among business leaders, economists, and ordinary Americans that we are witnessing what may well be the LARGEST out-migration of nonmanufacturing jobs in the HISTORY of the U.S. economy. Download a short overview of a recent study by Cynthia A. Kroll and Ashok Deo Bardhan from the University of California-Berkeley in PDF format.

A ferocious new wave of outsourcing of white-collar jobs is sweeping the United States, according to a new study published by University of California, Berkeley, researchers, who say the trend could leave as many as 14 Million service jobs in the United States vulnerable. Link to external website to view Press Release issued October 29, 2003.

Arun Netravali, President (Emeritus) Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, is setting up a $250 million venture capitol fund, to invest in United States-based start-up companies in telecom and technology areas, which would be outsourcing to India. Download complete news article in PDF format.

In remarks to the annual meeting of the Council on Competitiveness, CWA President Morton Bahr stressed that our country can ensure competitiveness and create good jobs for U.S. workers, but "government must act decisively to restore balance between overseas investment and outsourcing and keeping vital industries in this country." "Unless government intervenes, globalization will result in a declining American living standard," he warned. Download CWA Press Release in PDF format.

Until recently, workers who entered the United States on nonimmigrant guest worker visas were used primarily for low-paying, menial jobs such as building railroads and picking farm crops. The year 1990 marked a radical departure in philosophy as professional white-collar workers using nonimmigrant visas such as H-1B and L-1 were allowed to work in the United States. These visas were inserted into the General Agreement on Trade and Services as part of the World Trade Organization plan to globalize the labor market. Take this external link to view the entire article, read the ongoing discussion thread and rate the article.

Bank of America snagged a lot of headlines when it announced this week that it will create the second-biggest U.S. bank by acquiring FleetBoston Financial for about $47 billion. But virtually no attention was paid just days earlier when BofA said it will move more operations abroad by setting up a subsidiary in India next year to handle key tech functions, many involving sensitive customer information. Download column by David Lazarus, San Francisco Chronicle in PDF format.

Oregon has staked training grants, tax breaks and technological upgrades toward luring call-center work as one answer to an overseas flight of manufacturing jobs. Service employment steadily grew through the 1990s, providing a counter to the volatile manufacturing industry. As of January, at least 75 call centers helped keep afloat more than 20,000 Oregonians-up from about 15,000 2 1/2 years earlier, the state estimates. And the work is bolstering many hard-pressed rural areas. But those jobs now too, are vulnerable as technological advances enable them to flow abruptly to the lowest bidders continents away. Download complete article in PDF format.

Chairman Donald Manzullo (R/IL-16) opening statement: " What we are really seeing is a permanent shift in the distribution of workers throughout the GLOBAL economy--everywhere but here." Download Congressman Manzullo's entire opening statement and a link to the hearing summary containing a statement from Natasha Humphries, ex-Silicon Valley technical worker disenfranchised by the use of offshoring by Palm, Inc., her former employer.

Following news that a Pakistani medical transcriber threatened to post UCSF Medical Center patient records online unless she received more money, a state senator said she will introduce legislation barring all California hospitals from allowing medical data to leave the country. Download complete article by David Lazarus, San Francisco Chronicle in PDF format.

Metro One Telecommunications, once one of Oregon's most promising home-grown technology companies, is scrambling to recover after losing the source of about half of its sales. Competitors have hammered Metro One, undercutting its prices by sending calls to cheaper offshore call centers and replacing operators altogether with automated technology. Download full-story in PDF format.

Are we on the fast-track to becoming a third world country? The sudden increase in outsourcing high-technology and professional jobs (Often referred to as off-shoring), may be sending something else abroad: our position in the world as the lead economic power. External link to Newwork.com Opinion by Dr. William Raynor, Professor of Finance of New York University (SUNY) at Delhi.

What's the problem with our large corporations these days? Why are all of the large corporations destroying American jobs when so many of us need jobs so desperately now? Why are American corporations sending our jobs offshore, and, why are corporations bringing "cheap labor" to the U.S. to take our jobs from us? From the ongoing series of OP-ED's by Dr. Cole Gunther, PhD. Download complete article in Word format.

Dell, Inc. may or may not be saving a ton of money by outsourcing its tech support, but it is definitely losing loyal customers as a result of the move. Download complete article in PDF format.

A woman in Pakistan doing cut-rate clerical work for UCSF Medical Center threatened to post patients' confidential files on the Internet unless she was paid more money. To show she was serious, the woman sent UCSF an e-mail earlier this month with actual patients' records attached. Download complete article in PDF format.

The U.S. government should stop buying foreign products and the U.S. Congress should enact other policies encouraging U.S. IT and other companies to stop sending jobs offshore, said Don Manzullo (R-IL),Chairman of the U.S. House Small Business Committee. Download complete article in PDF format.

The following article is from Dr. Cole Gunther PhD, a skilled professional social-scientific observer of America's "deepening national jobless emergency." "September 26, 2003, ten brave hearted American citizens rushed into the path of an unrelenting, raging machine - the American job export and destruction machine. Metaphorically, these ten Americans also sounded an alarm-- a challenge to all Americans." Download complete article by Dr. Gunther, an editorial commentary and his field research report in MicroSoft Word format.

On Friday, October 17, 2003 an "emergency message" was sent by several organizations to perhaps thousands of American citizens alerting them to a possible "sneaky move." Download complete article in MicroSoft Word format.

Operating out of a 200-square-foot, three employee office in Times Square, Chris Graham tries to persuade companies to take their cue from Wall Street firms like Morgan Stanley and J.P. Morgan Chase and farm out some of their research needs to a developing country where educated employees usually earn a fraction of what Americans are paid. Download complete article in PDF format.

The job shift is largely invisible to consumers. Unless you ask, you won't know that the airline reservation agent you speak with might be in India or Pakistan. When you contact a software help desk, the individual who works out your problem could be in the Philippines, Ireland, or Poland. Your doctor may be relying on radiology technicians in Easter Europe or China to read your x-rays. Download the current issue of the "Label Letter" from the Union Label & Service Trades Department, AFL-CIO for the complete article as well as others in PDF format.

Every corporate IT department faces its share of security threats from the outside world. But contact centers face double the danger, since potential data thieves likely lurk in their own ranks as well. After all, when you combine an employment revolving door with easy access to sensitive customer information, including social security numbers, credit card numbers and financial information, you have a potentially explosive situation. (You TRIPLE THE DANGER by OFFSHORING)Download complete article in PDF format.

Upset with the loss of U.S. jobs to India, Russia and beyond, a group of unemployed white-collar Atlantans vowed this week to target Georgia politicians, governments and businesses they deem responsible for sending jobs overseas. Download complete article in PDF format.

History shows that no one is good at predicting these things. And predictions of a labor shortage do offer hope to those caught in the wrenching gyrations of our high-tech economy. Unfortunately, most labor shortage predictions come from organizations that benefit when U.S. companies export jobs - like the manufacturers association, the India-based software and services group, and the global staffing firms, like Adecco. Download complete article in PDF format.

A new anti-free-trade movement is emerging in the U.S., comprising highly skilled workers who once figured they would be big winners in the globalized economy but now see their white-collar jobs moving overseas in growing numbers. Download Wall St. Journal article in PDF format.

Earlier this year, Rick Eaton did something unusual in the world of high technology: he made his product weaker. Mr. Eaton is the founder of TrueActive, which makes a computer program that buyers can install on a target computer and monitor everything that the machine's user does on the PC. Spying with software has been around for several years but Mr. Eaton decided that one new feature in his program has crossed the line between monitoring and snooping. That feature is called "silent deploy", which allows the buyer to place the program on someone else's computer secretly via e-mail, without having physical access to the machine. Download complete article in PDF format.

The concept of business process outsourcing (BPO) typically conjures up images of inexpensively hired college graduates dialing away at call centers in India, Singapore or the Philippines. That picture is now changing, as providers of business process outsourcing (BPO) services move beyond call centers and routine data-crunching tasks toward higher-end services. Download complete article in PDF format.

State Senator Jeff Drozda, a republican from the Indiana district of Westfield, is working on a bill that would restrict offshore IT outsourcing by state agencies or use of vendors whose U.S. staff is mostly visa workers. Download complete article in PDF format.

In the developed world and particularly in the United States, the scope of jobs disappearing overseas is widening beyond all imagining, to professions that almost nobody expected to be hit, and with far higher incomes that anybody thought possible as globalization bonds with the law of unintended consequences. Download complete article in PDf format.

"Companies are slashing payrolls in the United States and Europe to cut costs, moving software work offshore and creating thousands of jobs for India's low-cost engineers." Download complete article in PDF format.

"GAO is highly respected in Congress (even if their political constraints mean they don't always heed GAO's advise), so this report is especially insidious. Sadly, the report comes nowhere near living up to GAO's slogan, "Accountability, Integrity, Reliability." Download Dr. Matloff's analysis if PDF format.

Federal officials don't know how many H-1B Visa holders are working in the USA because the two data systems that collect critical data on visa holders aren't integrated. The GOA said its effort to study the matter was hindered on two fronts. First, key date is missing because the systems aren't integrated. Second, the GAO contacted 145 companies to discuss their H-1B visa use, but only 36 agreed to interviews. Download entire report in PDF format.

Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colorado), chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, has long been an immigration watchdog and opponent of Illegal immigration. On July 9, 2003, he introduced H.R. 2888 "To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to repeal H-1B visas for temporary workers." Tancredo's dogged advocacy of immigration reform has made him a maverick within his own party. His bill was assigned to the House Judiciary Committee, where it never was scheduled for a hearing. He recently spoke with Computerworld about his opposition to unfettered immigration and guest worker visas. Download entire interview in PDF format.

Mike Emmons is not a politician, a bureaucrat or a wealthy lawyer. He's an everyday, middle-class husband and father of two trying to make ends meet after being replaced by a foreign worker. Take this external link to his election web site.

Charles Crystle has challenged fellow candidates from Pennsylvania for U.S. Senate to address the job loss caused by corporate abuse of L-1 and H-1B visas. External link to sign his petition and read his positions an other issues.