The Teamsters won a ban on any further outsourcing, wrested back some previously outsourced jobs, and for the first time won the right to honor strikes by other Kroger Teamsters.
The global labor force of outsourced and contract workers are early adopters of generative AI — and the most at risk.
The real culprit here is the diminution of US productive capacity and supply chain disruption caused by four decades of neoliberal policies – disinvestment, deregulation, outsourcing - which have prevented supply-side measures to bring prices down.
“When they do well, we do well, because our work is less likely to be outsourced to a country paying its workers a decent wage"
Experts estimate that the region will see 10 million new IT job openings by 2025, driven by outsourcing and "nearshoring" by American Tech companies.
Union took issue with company’s threats to outsource jobs from the US to Mexico if workers refuse to accept their proposals.
The contracting trend has transformed corporate America into a two-tier economic system of company employees with secure jobs and good benefits and contracted workers with poor benefits who lack job security.
At stake in Lordstown, Ohio, are the livelihoods of more than 1,400 plant workers and thousands more indirect jobs in the surrounding area of northeast Ohio, a key swing state in presidential elections.
These Americans face growing competition from abroad.
The TPP is a massive trade agreement between the United States, Canada, Chile, Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. Critics of the agreement say it amounts to the promulgation of corporate globalization and neoliberalization and have likened it to "NAFTA on steroids."
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