Labor

Bond, Secret Agent for Outsourcing

by Diane Farsetta — June 23, 2004 - 10:00pm

The U.S. Commerce Department's under secretary of technology, Phil Bond, said "excit[ing] kids" about science and math "as early as elementary school" is a good way to counter the movement of high-tech U.S. jobs overseas.

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FOX News, June 24, 2004

Have a Gram, Don't Give a Damn!

by Diane Farsetta — June 7, 2004 - 10:00pm

"The leading drug-industry trade group and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are working ... to demonstrate the cost of depression in the workplace and to show employers that treating affected workers would improve the bottom line," reports The Hill.

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The Hill, June 8, 2004

An Unfair Trade: Jobs for Ads

by Diane Farsetta — May 13, 2004 - 10:00pm

At least four governors "have pulled out of an agreement... that would bar giving preferences to local businesses or restricting outsourcing." U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick asked the governors "to comply with procurement provisions in pending bilateral and regional trade agreements... to give the U.S.

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Wall Street Journal, May 14, 2004

Regulation without Representation

by Diane Farsetta — April 19, 2004 - 10:00pm

"Outsourcing, the shifting of well-paid and skilled manufacturing and service sector jobs overseas, has emerged as a defining issue," but Republicans in the House of Representatives want to change the subject, according to The Hill.

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The Hill, April 20, 2004

Working Hard for the Money

by Diane Farsetta — April 6, 2004 - 10:00pm

The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) may not "ensure adequate remedy for workers' rights abuses, protect women workers from discrimination, or improve domestic labor law enforcement," as Human Rights Watch claims, but it does have an international PR campaign.

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O'Dwyer's PR Daily, April 7, 2004

Thanks for the Opportunity

by Sheldon Rampton — April 6, 2004 - 10:00pm

Leslie Green at Stapleton Communications has a bachelor's degree in Marketing Communications from California Polytechnic State University, which must be where she learned how to stonewall reporters while still sounding upbeat. A detailed new investigative report charges her client, AXT Inc., with poisoning its workers with gallium arsenide, a potent carcinogen used to make semiconductors.

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East Bay Express, April 7, 2004

Ain't Nothin' but an Intricate Economic Thang

by Diane Farsetta — April 4, 2004 - 10:00pm

Moving jobs overseas has gotten a bad rap, according to PR Week: "The fact that offshoring is a complex matter... doesn't mean the media has treated it with a sober approach.

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PR Week, April 5, 2004

Lost in Translation

by Diane Farsetta — March 11, 2004 - 11:00pm

"It is the not-so-secret secret of every presidential campaign that most crowds at most campaign stops are so much stage prop," writes Paul Vitello. Case in point: George Bush's visit to U.S.A. Industries in Bay Shore, Long Island, NY on Thursday. Bush "gave his speech...

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Newsday, March 12, 2004

It's a Small Workforce, After All

by Diane Farsetta — March 10, 2004 - 11:00pm

It's "not outsourcing... it's simply moving the work" explained Reuters' global managing editor about the news service's hiring six reporters in Bangalore, India to cover small and mid-size U.S. companies. In Congress, Republicans are touting "insourcing," or foreign companies hiring U.S. citizens.

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O'Dwyer's PR Daily, March 11, 2004

Business Doublespeak: "American Jobs" Coalition Supports Outsourcing

by Diane Farsetta — February 29, 2004 - 11:00pm

Big business groups -- including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers, and Information Technology Association of America (the e-voting machine manufacturers' lobby group) -- have formed the Coalition for Economic Growth and American Jobs.

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The Wall Street Journal, March 1, 2004
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