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Outsourcing--a case study.(Insider Report)(offshore labor)(Brief Article)
Greenville, South Carolina-based Kemet Corporation, which manufactures electrical parts for computers and cell phones, announced plans on July 2nd to cut 650 jobs "as it relocates several plants to cheaper manufacturing facilities in China and Mexico," reported the Associated Press. Over the next five years, five of the company's North Carolina plants will be closed down as it "outsources" its manufacturing abroad under a reorganization plan intended to help the company "succeed in the new global environment," according to company president and CEO Jeffrey Graves.
As previously reported in these pages (see "Your Job May Be Next!" in our March 10th issue), "America's white collar work force is facing the same twin battering rams of imported cheap labor and exported production that have ravaged our country's blue collar work force for years.... [I]t has become a familiar, bitter story in ...
- SERVICE ECONOMY IN U.S. TROUBLED TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR TOLD THAT THE FUTURE LIES...
- Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) Forgrieve, Janet March 26, 2001 700+ words
...allows the cheap and easy use of offshore labor will spell the end of the dominant...agriculture here, it's rising on Mexico, Costa Rica and other Latin...percent and 6 percent. In Mexico, it's less than 1 percent...next three years in India and Mexico, he said, jobs ranging from...
- 'Buy Joe Get Dima Free' Offshore Labor Saves Local Jobs.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire July 21, 2004 700+ words
...saves local jobs by including free offshore labor with each local person hired. Created...development firm, this approach of including offshore labor shows how local companies can turbocharge...IT development teams also has found offshore labor to be key to reducing costs in their...
- Offshore Labor Supply Edges Economic Conditions as Top Driver of IT Services...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 23, 2003 700+ words
...addition, 63% of the sourcing advisors surveyed identified "offshore labor supply," as the top driver of IT services pricing, edging...environment, and heightened awareness and demand for the use of offshore labor. The IT services pricing study marks the first project...
- Everest Research Institute Publishes Annual Report on Global Sourcing; New...
- Press release article from: Business Wire January 25, 2006 700+ words
...and that shortages are cropping up only in certain skill areas. These issues will eventually work themselves out, as the offshore labor market continues to mature and expand into new geographies." "The bottom line is that offshoring is becoming mainstream...
- Manufacturing offers lessons for global economy: jobless rate is troubled by...
- Magazine article from: MSI Keller, Erik September 1, 2003 700+ words
...regard anytime soon, even with a sustainable recovery, because two irascible genies have been let out of the bottle: offshore labor and Internet technologies. Manufacturing industries have competed in a global market for decades, with many jobs siphoned...
- Herman unveils grants on offshore labor issues. (Labor Secretary Alexis Herman)
- Magazine article from: WWD Owens, Jennifer November 5, 1997 700+ words
Labor Secretary Alexis Herman announced Tuesday her department's second grant in two weeks toward eliminating child labor overseas, as well as a $3 million White House contribution to support labor issues as part of Central America's economic development. Both announcements, made while Congress
- Killing the goose that laid the golden egg.(Looking Inside)(offshore...
- Magazine article from: Fairfield County Business Journal Klein, Ed August 11, 2003 700+ words
A reader commented that I have been too hard on companies exporting jobs to India and elsewhere. "Cutting labor costs is the only way many companies can cut costs and show a profit," he said. First, it was factory workers. Now it can affect almost anyone in a large company. If the job exodus
- H-P CONFIRMS COLORADO JOBS GOING TO MEXICO SUPPORT POSITIONS BEING CUT IN...
- Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) August 9, 2005 700+ words
...moving the positions to Guadalajara, Mexico. H-P spokesman Ryan Donovan confirmed...support jobs to Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico and India. The journal also said the...companies would be barred from using offshore labor that often is cheaper. "Most large...