Coalition Battles Outsourcing Backlash
Coalition Battles Outsourcing Backlash
Date: Monday, March 01, 2004 9:32 AM
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http://money.cnn.com/2004/03/01/news/international/business_coalition.dj/index.htm
Coalition Battles Outsourcing Backlash
March 1, 2004: 9:09 AM EST
WASHINGTON - With overseas outsourcing a hot U.S. election-year issue,
big business is quietly mounting an offensive against state and federal
efforts to keep jobs at home and otherwise restrain globalization,
Monday's Wall Street Journal reported.
Some of the best-financed trade groups in the U.S. have formed a
coalition to beat back federal legislation that would restrict foreign
outsourcing by government contractors and limit visas for non-American
workers with technology skills.
Calling itself the Coalition for Economic Growth and American Jobs, the
new entity comprises about 200 trade groups -- including the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable, the American Bankers
Association, the National Association of Manufacturers and the
Information Technology Association of America -- as well as individual
companies.
While U.S. manufacturing jobs have been going abroad for decades, the
more recent and highly publicized outflow of white-collar jobs -- from
call centers to software engineering -- is causing anxiety among
skilled white-collar workers at a time when the growing U.S. economy
hasn't produced many new jobs.
Dozens of bills to protect U.S. jobs have been introduced in state
legislatures and in Congress. Business is alarmed by a provision in the
federal government's omnibus fiscal 2004 spending bill that bars
companies that bid for certain work done by government employees from
moving work offshore, said William Sweeney, vice president of global
government affairs at Electronic Data Systems Corp. EDS, of Plano,
Texas, does government outsourcing work.
Wall Street Journal Staff Reporter Michael Schroeder contributed to
this report. Dow Jones Newswires 03-01-04 0041ET Copyright (C) 2004 Dow
Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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