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2013-09-05 18:15:29 UTC
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headline:
Despite a lot of talk and articles written about reshoring — bringing production back to the United States — offshore outsourcing of manufacturing and service-sector jobs to foreign nations continues to plague the American economy.
Hundreds of major American corporations are shipping thousands of jobs overseas, according to an analysis of Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) filings made to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration on behalf of the displaced workers.
While the trend is down from its peak, it has not fully abated, and there are many times more outsourcing events — as per the TAA petitions filed with the Labor Department — than there are reshoring (or “insourcing” or “onshoring”) announcements, as per searches of media stories on www.news.google.com and www.news.yahoo.com.
A survey of petitions filed on behalf of workers to receive generous TAA benefits and training during the first three weeks of July, 2013, indicates that offshoring of American production and jobs — as well as import substitution — remains a fixture of the largest and most well known American companies. Seventy-seven petitions were filed on behalf of American workers, from companies such as IBM, Walgreens, International Paper, Sanmina Corp., Chicago Bridge and Iron, NCR, AT&T, Tenneco Automotive, Micron Technology and Honeywell, among others.
If it were not for the TAA program, few of these company decisions to displace American workers with foreigners would be known. The database is searchable at www.doleta.gov/tradeact/taa/taa_search_form.cfm.
Here are some of the filings:
Flextronics Americas in Stafford, Texas, will lay off 147 workers because their jobs “are being transferred to Juarez, Mexico,” writes Chrystal Broussard Johnson, a Workforce Account Executive at a TAA “One-Stop Operator/Partner.”
Jabil of Tempe, Ariz., will lay off more than 500 workers making printed circuit boards and box-build assemblies for the medical, industrial and aerospace sectors. “We are in the process of moving several assemblies to other Jabil facilities in Mexico and Asia in order to reduce labor costs and meet our customers’ pricing expectations,” writes Jabil HR Manager Dawn Tabelak in a July 15 TAA petition.
Joy Global of Franklin, Penn., will lay off 245 workers making underground mining equipment because production is “being shifted to a foreign location, outsourcing increased imports, articles and services,” writes Timothy Buck, a union official in York, Penn.
Phillips Lighting Company’s Bath, N.Y., factory making finished lamps will lay off 265 workers because “production is being shifted to a foreign country,” writes Amy Heysham, Director of Human Resources for Phillips.
Hewlett Packard will lay off 500 employees working in customer service and technical support in Conway, Ark., due to “global restructuring,” according to Mazen Alkhamis, Business Solutions Analyst for the state of Arkansas in Little Rock.
DAK Americas of Leland, N.C., is laying off 340 full-time workers and 264 contract workers because it closed its entire production facility at its Cape Fear site due to dumped imports of competing products, according to Stephen Seals, DAK Americas’ Senior Director of Human Resources. “Imports of PET resins have continued to rise in quantity over the last several years, especially from China and Oman,” writes Seals. “The low price of these imports as well as the increasing volume continues to have a negative impact in the U.S. marketplace. For DAK Americas’ Cape Fear site, it is the price suppression that these low-priced imports has brought with them that has been the most damaging. The continuing decline in prices has forced DAK Americas to rationalize capacity.” Shutting down the Cape Fear PET resins manufacturing plant “would not be the outcome if the increasing volume of low-priced imports had not driven the manufacturing economics for this site beyond a state that cannot be maintained and be viable.
headline:
Despite a lot of talk and articles written about reshoring — bringing production back to the United States — offshore outsourcing of manufacturing and service-sector jobs to foreign nations continues to plague the American economy.
Hundreds of major American corporations are shipping thousands of jobs overseas, according to an analysis of Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) filings made to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration on behalf of the displaced workers.
While the trend is down from its peak, it has not fully abated, and there are many times more outsourcing events — as per the TAA petitions filed with the Labor Department — than there are reshoring (or “insourcing” or “onshoring”) announcements, as per searches of media stories on www.news.google.com and www.news.yahoo.com.
A survey of petitions filed on behalf of workers to receive generous TAA benefits and training during the first three weeks of July, 2013, indicates that offshoring of American production and jobs — as well as import substitution — remains a fixture of the largest and most well known American companies. Seventy-seven petitions were filed on behalf of American workers, from companies such as IBM, Walgreens, International Paper, Sanmina Corp., Chicago Bridge and Iron, NCR, AT&T, Tenneco Automotive, Micron Technology and Honeywell, among others.
If it were not for the TAA program, few of these company decisions to displace American workers with foreigners would be known. The database is searchable at www.doleta.gov/tradeact/taa/taa_search_form.cfm.
Here are some of the filings:
Flextronics Americas in Stafford, Texas, will lay off 147 workers because their jobs “are being transferred to Juarez, Mexico,” writes Chrystal Broussard Johnson, a Workforce Account Executive at a TAA “One-Stop Operator/Partner.”
Jabil of Tempe, Ariz., will lay off more than 500 workers making printed circuit boards and box-build assemblies for the medical, industrial and aerospace sectors. “We are in the process of moving several assemblies to other Jabil facilities in Mexico and Asia in order to reduce labor costs and meet our customers’ pricing expectations,” writes Jabil HR Manager Dawn Tabelak in a July 15 TAA petition.
Joy Global of Franklin, Penn., will lay off 245 workers making underground mining equipment because production is “being shifted to a foreign location, outsourcing increased imports, articles and services,” writes Timothy Buck, a union official in York, Penn.
Phillips Lighting Company’s Bath, N.Y., factory making finished lamps will lay off 265 workers because “production is being shifted to a foreign country,” writes Amy Heysham, Director of Human Resources for Phillips.
Hewlett Packard will lay off 500 employees working in customer service and technical support in Conway, Ark., due to “global restructuring,” according to Mazen Alkhamis, Business Solutions Analyst for the state of Arkansas in Little Rock.
DAK Americas of Leland, N.C., is laying off 340 full-time workers and 264 contract workers because it closed its entire production facility at its Cape Fear site due to dumped imports of competing products, according to Stephen Seals, DAK Americas’ Senior Director of Human Resources. “Imports of PET resins have continued to rise in quantity over the last several years, especially from China and Oman,” writes Seals. “The low price of these imports as well as the increasing volume continues to have a negative impact in the U.S. marketplace. For DAK Americas’ Cape Fear site, it is the price suppression that these low-priced imports has brought with them that has been the most damaging. The continuing decline in prices has forced DAK Americas to rationalize capacity.” Shutting down the Cape Fear PET resins manufacturing plant “would not be the outcome if the increasing volume of low-priced imports had not driven the manufacturing economics for this site beyond a state that cannot be maintained and be viable.