Category Archives: Outsourcing
Frigid Fla. winter is bad news for tomato lovers
You say tomato, restaurants say sorry: Fla.’s freezing temps cause tomato shortage
Tamara Lush, Associated Press Writer, On Friday March 5, 2010, 5:35 am
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A frigid Florida winter is taking its toll on your sandwich. The Sunshine State is the main U.S. source for fresh winter tomatoes, and its growers lost some [...]
Don’t let immigrants take US jobs
By David R. Francis David R. Francis Tue Feb 2, 12:00 pm ET
About 15 million Americans are unemployed. Yet Washington allows businesses to bring in about 1 million foreigners a year to take supposedly short-term jobs that many [...]
India outsourcers hiring staff as US demand grows
ERIKA KINETZ, AP Business Writer
MUMBAI, India – India’s top three outsourcing companies are ramping up hiring and increasing pay as global corporations, mainly from the U.S., send more work offshore to cut costs as they emerge from the downturn.
Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, and Wipro expanded their global workforces by an average of 5.1 percent last [...]
Outsourcing Isn’t Just for Christmas
LIAM DENNING
Another Christmas, another triumph for the world’s foremost exponent of vertical integration.
Imagine if Santa Claus outsourced instead. Pinkerton might be hired to keep tabs on how well children behaved. Toys would no doubt be churned out in Chinese factories rather than Polar workshops. Santa could stay home and brainstorm with his elves on brand [...]
Worker Blasts Adidas’ Plan to Move NBA Jersey Production Overseas
by Joshua Rhett Miller, FOXNews.com
The lone major sport with its roots in America could soon see its premier players dunking and driving to the hoop wearing uniforms made in Thailand, costing nearly 100 workers their jobs in upstate New York.
Sports apparel giant Adidas plans to end its contract with Perry, N.Y.-based apparel supplier American [...]
U.S. stimulus deal buoys U.K. factory’s workers
Backdrop for Obama’s announcement of fuel-efficiency grants? A couple of foreign-built trucks
Jason Reed / ReutersIn August, President Obama announced, at this event in Indiana, new funds to support the building of vehicles like the one behind him — which was manufactured in England.
F. Brinley BrutonReporter
Photographs of President Barack Obama run on a constant loop in the [...]
Slump Sinks H-1B Visa Program
By MIRIAM JORDAN
A coveted visa program that feeds skilled workers to top-tier U.S. technology companies and universities is on track to leave thousands of spots unfilled for the first time since 2003, a sign of how the weak economy has eroded employment even among highly trained professionals.
The program, known as H-1B, has been a mainstay [...]
Returning To America – The Debate
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http://mfgcrunch.ning.com/profiles/blogs/returning-to-america-the
Here’s a great blog post summary from evolvingexcellence.com reviewing a Deloitte article that debates the repatriation of manufacturing work back to the US. Salient points include that Deloitte, a consultant, is paid to look for an report change, and that the gap in costs between manufacturing in the US and offshore has shrunk from [...]
Tainted drywall a top issue, says new Consumer Product Safety Commission chairman
LESLEY CLARK
The Miami Herald
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers from Florida and Louisiana Thursday pressed new Consumer Product Safety Commission chairman Inez Tenenbaum for answers to the Chinese drywall problem plaguing thousands of homeowners in their states.
Tenenbaum – who took over the agency in June – pledged to lawmakers that the agency will “vigorously pursue its investigation” into [...]
Bogus Manufacturing Productivity Statistics
Michael Mandel
This morning the BLS released its “International Comparisons of Manufacturing Productivity and Unit Labor Cost Trends, 2008”. And guess what? According to the BLS, the U.S. manufacturing sector had the fastest productivity growth in the world in 2008—1.2%, tied with South Korea. Meanwhile, Japan, Canada, Germany, France and Japan all had manufacturing productivity declines.
Good [...]