IBEW Local 17 (Detroit MI) Employer Hosts Website for Job Exports

New Website Features News About Job Exports, Wal-Mart Union Efforts


New website featuring companies who are actively outsourcing jobs is launched. Also features Wal-Mart union news.

(PRWEB) February 20, 2005 -- A new website, www.ExportingOurJobs.com, has been launched to provide current news articles and information about job exports, outsourcing, and offshoring. The site also features an extensive news section about Wal-Mart (WMT) and union organizing efforts at that company. Wal-Mart is by far the largest importer of foreign-made goods in the United States, so the part that it plays in the exporting of American jobs is huge.

Sponsored and created by Union Built PC, Inc., the website uses a content-management system designed to enable staff to update news articles on-the-fly that are linked from other sites about companies in the United States who send jobs overseas, mostly to India and China. While George Bush and the Republicans are touting the “benefits” of such activities and providing tax breaks to companies who send our jobs overseas, the real truth lies in the statistics regarding job loss and the shredding of the fabric of our society in the process. For example, a Bipartisan Congressional commission pegged the number of jobs exported from the United States to other countries at 407,000. The tech sector is a special focus for www.exportingourjobs.com, and the numbers in that arena are also staggering: in the year 2004, $51.6 billion is the value of IT (Information Technology) jobs lost from major industrialized countries including the United States, Germany, the UK, Japan, France, and Hong Kong to countries like India and China. (Source: Frost and Sullivan study).

Now that financial services, communications, help desk, programming, and other traditionally white-collar work has become the new source of job exports, even more attention is being paid to this topic by U.S. workers and labor unions.

The effort to prevent companies from moving jobs overseas is an ongoing one, and some prominent figures such as CNN’s Lou Dobbs and Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich have been at the forefront of this effort for years; www.exportingourjobs.com is the latest in an effort to stop the flow, but it’s also the only site that compiles a lot of information about the topic into one easy-to-read, extremely current news page.

Union Built PC (www.unionbuiltpc.com) is dedicated to preserving Information Technology jobs in the United States; all of its PC assembly, programming, sales, marketing, tech support, website design, and accounting staff are located here in the U.S., and are also members of three different unions - - CWA Local 1101, IBEW Local 17, and UWUA Local 223.

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