[biztech-discussion] Organizational Ally
- From: Al Weinrub <Allen.Weinrub@xxxxxxx>
- To: biztech-discussion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 15:38:10 -0700
Folks,
Sarah Forth, a union member and former West Coast Regional VP, sent me a
pointer to Global Tradewatch, a project of Public Citizen. They have
resources on offshoring that we can use:
http://www.citizen.org/trade/offshoring/
Note, in the paragraphs quoted below, that the "policies" and
legislative approach they take is very similar to the one we are
planning to organize around. This might make them good organizational
ally...
Offshoring
...
Widespread public concern over the growing offshoring of a range of
back-office, technological and other professional occupations has
made this a very hot political issue in the 2004 election.
Increasingly, policy makers and economists are coming to realize
that something dramatic has occurred that cannot be explained by
prevailing economic theories and models. The Dow Jones Industrial
Average has topped 10,000 yet people are still not finding jobs and
many have stopped trying.
Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch's April 15 report, "Addressing
the Regulatory Vacuum: Policy Considerations Regarding Public and
Private Sector Service Job Offshoring,"
<http://www.citizen.org/documents/OffshoringReport.pdf> proposes
two distinct sets of policies that Congress and state legislatures
should consider in response to this latest wave of offshoring. The
first set of policy options are required to ensure that identity
theft, financial fraud, irreversible exposure of sensitive personal
medical and financial information, and domestic infrastructure
sabotage threats do not increase with the move to shift professional
and service sector work overseas to lower-wage countries.
The second set of policies is aimed at protecting the right of state
and federal government to invest taxpayer dollars back into the
domestic economy. To date, Congress and over 30 states are
considering policies that would prevent service work paid for with
state and federal tax dollars from being sent overseas.
Al
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