There are many familiar names among companies that outsource and offshore, across a wide range of industries: Oracle, Boeing, Prudential, American Express, Franklin Mint, IBM, ExxonMobil, Ernst & Young, Reuters, Office Depot, Northwest Airlines, Amazon.com, Intel, Kaiser Permanente, America Online, and Aetna. Online tools can help you learn more about the consequences of outsourcing and offshoring specific industries and in your community.
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| Company | # Jobs |
| EDS | 20,000 |
| General Electric | 14,000 |
| Convergys | 14,000 |
| Accenture | 10,000 |
| Computer Sciences Corp. | 7,700 |
| MCI | 7,500 |
| Standard Chartered | 6,500 |
| Dell | 6,500 |
| Sabre Holdings | 6,200 |
| Delta Airlines | 6,200 |
| Source: TechsUnite offshore tracker |
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AT&T
“In these past 2+ years since my job was outsourced, landing a job has been impossible. I can't get a tech job because employers prefer to staff their support team with exploitable cheap labor. I can't get a clerical nor retail job because I am told I am overqualified. I am truly between a rock and a hard place.”
—Char Clingman of Downers Grove, IL, former employee of AT&T
“Tech companies made tremendous profits with these workers, now they're throwing them away . . . when these jobs go overseas, they're not coming back.”
—Christina Huggins, AT&T employee and Second Executive Vice President, CWA Local 9415
“‘Knowledge transfer’ is corporate speak for ‘you’re going to train your replacement.’”
—Mike Rohal, former AT&T IT employee
GE
“I was hired at GE Motors in Jonesboro, Arkansas, on Dec. 13, 1993. GE was a great place to work and I was proud to work for such an admired company. GE brought good things to my life! I made a good living, bought stock in the company . . . and had plans on staying there until my retirement.
“Unfortunately, those dreams were shattered on September 26, 2003, as over two-thirds of our plant was outsourced to a GE co-owned factory in China. Along with those dreams also went my income and benefits, including, at the end of one year, my entire family's health insurance benefits.”
—Jean Cooper, laid-off by GE, member of IUE-CWA Local 747
Boeing
“It was very callous . . . . They asked us to make them feel at home while we trained them to take our jobs.”
—Stephen Gentry, Auburn, WA, former Boeing employee
Verizon
“We feel that the use of contractors, either at home or abroad, is a way of avoiding employment opportunities for Verizon employees whose own jobs may be in jeopardy…. The company is creating many new jobs in its new lines of business while trying to shed long-term workers in its more mature lines of business because of declining consumer demand.”
—Steve Early, CWA representative
SBC
“ . . . they are offshoring my job. I have developed several procedures that include computer programs that I independently created that are useful in monitoring the status of a database. They expect me to train my replacement giving them my knowledge and then just go quietly away?!?”
—Name withheld
Lucent
“They try to blame the economy and market conditions . . . . But the real reason we've lost jobs is outsourcing.”
—Gary Nilsson, President CWA Local 1365
