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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.
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"For America's IT (information technology) workforce, this has been a job-loss recovery."
—Nik Theodore, Center for Urban Economic Development at University of Illinois
"If foreign countries speciaize in high-skilled areas where we have an advantage, we could be worse off. I still have faith that globalization will make us better off, but it's no more than faith."
—Robert Z. Lawrence, Harvard University economist
"If you don't believe that [the pressure of offshoring on wages in the service economy] changes the average wages in America, then you believe in the tooth fairy."
—Paul Samuelson, Nobel Prize-winning economist and professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"It's going to be difficult to remain technologically competitive, if we continue offshoing the jobs of our innovators."
—John Steadman, President fo the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers-USA
