That leaves workers like those at the Virginia GE plant with a feeling of being lied to as they watch their livelihoods disappear. They were going to close it no matter what, and that was very disappointing. GE confirmed the Virginia jobs will be outsourced to India. I thought he was going to save some jobs. After being laid off, it took her eight months to find another job, but it pays much less than what she was making at Carrier.
Trump had promised throughout his presidential campaign to save the nearby Carrier plant in Indianapolis, which has laid off hundreds of workers since he made a deal with the company in December According to Morrison, many workers either moved away or took jobs with pay cuts and long commutes. He was forced to retire early. To them it is all about the overseas outsourcing of jobs.
According to Plunkett Research , a leading research group on outsourcing and offshoring practices, offshoring refers to:. The tendency among many U. Often, the intent is to take advantage of lower wages and operating costs. So how pervasive is overseas outsourcing in our economy? Furthermore, companies attempt to limit exposure of their overseas outsourcing practices, leading researchers to believe that even the most extensive methodologies only capture one-third of all production shifts.
Still, there are important factors to understand about outsourcing as the debate makes its way back onto the national stage. Here are the top five trends:. Data from the U. As overseas outsourcing has expanded, U. Between August and February , manufacturing jobs were lost for a stunning 43 consecutive months—the longest such stretch since the Great Depression.
When jobs move abroad, people often imagine them going to a factory in Mexico or a call center in India. Where were the jobs going? Just over the border to Canada. Next : This company will no longer make its caskets in the U.
A casket at a funeral iStock. The wooden caskets previously made in the U. As often happens at other companies, a few foreign workers with H1-B visas come to the U. Mondelez International makes Oreo cookies and other products. Your Oreos might be delicious, but they might not be made in the U. In , Illinois-based Mondelez International announced it would be moving production of Oreo cookies from a factory in the Chicago area to one in Salinas, Mexico. Half of those employed at the plant — people — would lose their jobs.
Other U. But that deal only covered workers in certain Southern states, and the two parties are still in tough negotiations elsewhere. In May, some workers went on the three-day strike to protest outsourcing. The union claims the company had moved 12, call center jobs to countries including Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and the Philippines since Next : Another telecommunications giant faces controversy over overseas labor.
Verizon workers strike in In , 36, Verizon workers went on strike for six weeks. One of the sticking points in contract negotiations between the union members and the company was the issue of jobs moving abroad.
In , Microsoft opened a new factory in Wilsonville, Oregon, where it planned to make its giant, touchscreen Surface Hub computers.
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