High-tech workers want new game plan from government as more jobs move offshore.

Publication: Herald-Sun (Durham, NC)

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COPYRIGHT 2004 The Herald-Sun

Byline: Anne Krishnan

Nov. 16--Triangle technology workers say they've accepted the continued offshoring of U.S. jobs as an inevitability.

Now they want to see the U.S. government act to retrain workers, consider security issues and restrict the availability of work visas into the country.

"Did I lose my job to [offshore] outsourcing? Probably so," said Julio Vazquez, who worked as a technical writer at IBM until 2002. "The reality is with the global economy being what it is, that was an inevitable step."

The Durham resident worries that U.S. companies are giving foreign workers access to software that's integral to the U.S. economy, such as the programs that govern trading...

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