Petition to stop Offshoring of High-Tech & Professional Jobs

[Liberty Belle]

from National Writers Union:


Oppose the Offshoring of High-Tech and Professional Jobs!
Join the NWU's Oppose Offshoring campaign!

The goal of this campaign is to mobilize NWU members and other writers to help win passage of legislation that regulates the offshoring of high-tech and professional jobs. As the first step it targets legislation that

Curtails the use of public monies to promote offshoring of U.S. jobs. See Government Offshoring.
Protects personal privacy by restricting or prohibiting the offshoring of personal financial and medical data. See Offshoring Privacy Threat.

Sign the Petition

Campaign Overview-Click Here!!

[hansberrym]

1. Why stop at high tech jobs? Why not protect all of them?

Bush's claim that he is only wants to match willing employers and willing workers leaves out the issues of pay and quality of life.

If we let Bush manipulate the job market on the lower wage bracket, it will only encourage the same in the high tech area.

[dpibel]

3. Indeed

Entirely predictable that when blue-collar jobs were going overseas, the white collars explained that those people just needed to get educated. It was their problem, and they were entitled to no sympathy.

Now that the brutal logic of global capitalism starts to nibble closer to the bone, we need petitions! We need to organize!! We need outrage!!!

FWIW, my collar is white, so I'm not speaking as an embittered left out worker.

There's a bit of Niemoller here, isn't there? First they came for the textile workers, but I wasn't a textile worker. . .

[Liberty Belle]

5. I agree. But I didn't write the petition, just passed it along.

NWU represents professional writers, so perhaps they're trying to keep the focus narrow for their members.

The unions should really band together to stop ALL jobs from being outsourced, in my opinion.

Or maybe NWU thinks the manufacturing jobs are already mostly gone, so too late to shut the barn door now. Outsourcing of writing jobs is still in the early stages.

[KingoftheJungle]

2. no link

[Liberty Belle]

4. Here it is: http://www.nwu-oppose-offshoring.org/

http://www.nwu-oppose-offshoring.org/