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The offshoring of high wage jobs from the
United States to overseas locations is currently contributing
to unprecedented levels of unemployment among American electrical,
electronics and computer engineers. Offshoring also poses a very serious,
long term challenge to the nation’s leadership in technology and
innovation, its economic prosperity, and its military and homeland
security.
IEEE-USA believes that prudent steps must be taken to ensure that
offshoring benefits the United States and all its citizens, including high
tech workers.
See also
IEEE-USA on the
H-1B and L-1 Visas and America's High-Tech Workforce
| Events |
| 29
July 04 |
Ron Hira, chair
of IEEE-USA's Career & Workforce Policy Committee, discussed
offshoring on public radio's award-winning daily business show
Marketplace on 29 July. Click
here and scroll down to "Big Blue fights the outsourcing tide"
to listen.
more |
| 25
May 04 |
Presentation by
Dr. Ron Hira to Committee for Professionals in Science and
Technology |
| 18-19
May 04 |
Careers
Fly-In |
| 18
May 04 |
Presentation by
Dr. Ron Hira to ASME Global Outsourcing Roundtable |
| 8
May 04 |
Presentation by
Dr. Ron Hira to Council on Foreign Relations Offshoring Roundtable |
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3
May 04 |
Offshoring
Presentation by Dr. Ron Hira to the National Academy's Convocation
of Engineering Societies |
| 28
April 04 |
Presentation by
Dr. Ron Hira to AAAS Science and Technology Policy Forum on
offshoring |
| 2
Apr. 04 |
Dr. Ron Hira
fielded questions about offshoring and its effect on U.S. high-tech
companies and workers during an on-line session by Washingtonpost.com.
Read the transcript here. |
| 16
March 04 |
IEEE-USA releases
position statement on Offshore
Outsourcing. |
| 8
March 04 |
Presentation on
Workforce Issues Facing the SET Community by Dr. Ron Hira at 2004
Engineering R&D Symposium. Panel included Bradley
Knox, House Small Business Committee staff and Bruce Mehlman,
executive director, Computer Systems Policy Project (and former
Assistant Security of Commerce for Technology Policy) |
| 22-23
Feb. 04 |
Presentation on
Offshoring by Dr. Ron Hira at Senior Congressional Briefing: The
Impact of Globalization on the Future of the U.S. Technology Sector,
organized by the Council on Competitiveness (Baltimore, MD) |
| 17
Jan. 04 |
Remarks by Vin
O'Neill before the NAACP Federal Sector Task Force National EEO Summit
IV on Global Outsourcing of
Engineering Jobs. |
| 15
Jan. 04 |
Offshoring Q&A with IEEE-USA
President Dr. John Steadman with the French newspaper, Les Echos |
| 14
Dec. 03 |
Remarks by Dr.
Ron Hira on Shifting IT Resources
Offshore:
Panacea or Pandora’s Box? to Northern Virginia Technology
Council. |
| 20 Oct.
03 |
Testimony by Dr.
Ronil Hira to the House Small Business Committee on the Offshoring
of Highly Skilled Jobs. |
| 29
Aug. 03 |
Dr. Ron Hira, IEEE-USA R&D
Policy Committee chair, appeared on PBS' NOW with
Bill Moyers in a piece on global outsourcing. |
IEEE-USA Position
Statements
IEEE-USA Testimonies and Communications
How You Can Help
Send a message to your
representatives in Congress explaining how offshore outsourcing has
affected you and/or expressing your views on appropriate government policy
in respond to the offshoring trend.
You can use IEEE-USA's Legislative
Action Center to send messages, or join the CARE
Team to help us on this and other issues by volunteering as a
grassroots advocate.
Other Information Resources
The following links are provided by the IEEE-USA as information
resources to aid the reader to better understand different
perspectives on the issue. The IEEE-USA does not necessarily agree with or
support the views or positions expressed at these sites, nor can it
guarantee the accuracy of the information provided:
Other Position Statements
Federal
Legislation on Offsourcing
State
Legislation on Global Sourcing
See information
compiled by the National Conference of State Legislatures, including
a breakdown of state
legislation.
See list
maintained by National Foundation for American Policy.
If you are involved
in, or aware of an effort in your state to support passage of state
legislation on offshoring, drop us a note
with the details.
Other Reports/Resources
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Current Action Alerts
Study to Look at OffShore Outsourcing
Help Needed for Displaced Engineers: Tell Congress Current Law
is Unfair
Recent
Media Coverage
The
Responsibility to Retrain, By Jennifer Reingold, Fast
Company, April 2004
Report:
Offshore IT outsourcing helps economy, By Ed Frauenheim, CNET
News.com, 31 March 2004
Outsourcing
could create 'wage compression' for IT workers, By Patrick
Thibodeau, Computerworld, 31 March 2004
Study:
Offshore outsourcing helps U.S. economy, By Grant Gross, IDG
News Service, Washington Bureau, 30 March 2004
As
jobs go overseas, a city struggles to reinvent itself, by Kathy
Kiely, USA Today 21 March 2004
Still
Short of the Offshoring Ideal, by Steven Pearlstein, The
Washington Post, 12 March 2004
U.S.
ELECTIONS: Indian Americans in two minds over outsourcing of U.S.
jobs, by Amy Yee, Financial Times, 04 March 2004
Now
workers, not companies, are hurting
by Ron Hira, San Jose Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2004
Demand
for Engineers Rising Fast In U.S.,
by Brian Deagon, Investors Business Daily, 20 Jan. 2004
Tech
Council Backs Foreign Labor Use, by Ellen McCarthy, Washington
Post, 14 Jan. 2004
Tech
CEOs: Hiring Offshore Helps U.S. Workers, By Grant Gross, IDG
News Service (7 Jan. 2004)
Congress
looks for ways to slow offshore hiring, by Grant Gross, IDG News
Service
InfoWorld, (20 Oct. 2003)
Offshoring
stirs prejudices, by Rhonda Ascierto, Silicon Valley Biz Ink (10
Oct. 2003)
Backlash:
Special Report on Offshore Outsourcing - The Politics, By Chris
Koch, CIO (1 Sept. 2003)
Guest
Opinion: Can you compete with an $800-a-month engineer, by Paul
J. Kostek, Puget Sound Business Journal (Aug. 2003)
Visas
and Outsourcing: Programs and Practices Shaping Structural
Engineering in the United States, by Richard G. Weingardt, P.E.,
Structural Engineering, July 2003
Outsourcing
Row Gets Hotter, Wider, by K. Yatish Rajawat, The Economic
Times, 28 July 2003.
Free
Trade Costs Thousands of Jobs, by Thomas Roeser, Chicago
Sun-Times, 19 July 2003
Displacing
Americans, by Ilana Mercer
WorldNetDaily.com, 02 July 2003
Congress
upset as white-collar work exits U.S., by Kent Hoover, American
City Business Journals (bizjournals), 30 June 2003
Good'
Jobs Can Fall to New Economy, by Jeffrey Sparshott, The
Washington Times, 20 June 2003
Techies
see jobs go overseas
Opposition to offshore outsourcing beginning to grow, by Carrie
Kirby, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 June 2003
Exporting
America (CNN transcript)
Lou Dobbs
Moneyline, CNN, 22 & 26 May 2003
A
Snug Fit, But for How Long?, by Krishnan Thiagarajan, The
Hindu Business Line, 16 April 200
Special:
Where Did The Jobs Go?, by Steven Cooper (Florida Local 6 News),
19 Feb. 2003 (video
clip)
A
Short Circuit for U.S. Engineering Careers, by Terry Costlow (The
Christian Science Monitor), 26 Dec. 2002
Shift
of Tech Jobs Abroad Speeding Up, Report Says,
By
Diane E. Lewis (Boston Globe),
25 Dec.
2002
Slowdown
Sending Tech Jobs Overseas, by Jennifer Bjorhus, (San Jose
Mercury-News),
21 Oct. 2002
Data
Indicate Engineers May Be a Disappearing Breed, by Jill Jusko, (Industry
Week), 16 Oct. 2002
See also IEEE-USA in the News
(for selected offshoring stories citing IEEE-USA)
IEEE-USA Press Releases
Offshoring
Contributes to High Unemployment, Poses Serious Challenges (3/18/04)
Unemployment
Rate for Electrical Engineers and Computer Scientists Reaches All-Time High
in 2003
(2/26/04)University
of South Alabama Dean Becomes IEEE-USA President Amid Concerns about
the Offshoring of High-Tech Jobs (1/23/04)
IEEE-USA
Leaders Express Concern About 500,000 U.S. IT Jobs Projected to Move
Overseas
(7/21/03)
EE
Unemployment Rate Drops Slightly,
Still Ranks Above Other Professionals (7/11/03)
Unemployment
Rate for Electrical Engineers Skyrockets to Record Level
(4/28/03)
Offshore
Outsourcing and Labor Importing Put the Squeeze on Jobs in the U.S.
High-Tech Industry (3/24/03)
IEEE-USA
President Describes Threats Facing U.S. Engineers at Summit on the
U.S. Science and Engineering Workforce (12/2/02)
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