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December 26, 2003 Evenflo Co., a maker of infant car seats and feeding items, shut down its factory, leaving 150 jobless. The company had 300 people working at its Cherokee County plant just two years ago. The Atlanta Journal < See Note Below

December 26, 2003 Ohio had 131,000 fewer jobs last month than it did two years earlier when economists say the latest recession ended. Worse, many of those lost jobs were in the high-paying manufacturing sector. Toledo Blade

December 24, 2003 U.S. corporations are picking up the pace in shifting well-paid technology jobs to India, China and other low-cost centers. Reuters

December 16, 2003 The shift of service jobs to low-cost countries has only just begun. It promises huge benefits to consumers everywhere. (Note: This is a pay-per-view source but the article is worth the cost)      The Economist Magazine

December 15, 2003 IBM Corp. plans to move up to 4,700 skilled software jobs from the United States to India, China and other countries. CNN < See Note Below

December 13, 2003 Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has warned against making China a scapegoat for all the ills of the American labor market. Yahoo News < See Note Below

December 12, 2003 The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, through the Department of Commerce, announced today that total October exports of $88.0 billion and imports of $129.7 billion resulted in a goods and services deficit of $41.8 billion, compared with $41.3 billion in September, revised.  October exports were $2.2 billion more than September exports of $85.7 billion. October imports were $2.7 billion more than September imports of $127.1 billion. U.S. BEA < See Note Below

December 9, 2003 Legal research and other back-office work carried out at law firms may be among the next set of white-collar jobs to move offshore in big numbers. According to a study  at the University of California at Berkeley, legal assistants and paralegals working in offshore  on behalf of U.S. law firms earn, on average, between $6 and $8 per hour. That’s about one-third of what their counterparts in the United States are paid. Information Week < See Note Below

December 2, 2003 DuPont shifts focus overseas. The company’s “center of gravity” will move to Asia and Eastern Europe as it sheds jobs in the U.S.             Philadelphia Inquirer
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/7391071.htm < See Note Below

November 22, 2003 Broadcom Corporation is expanding its Taiwan operations. They plan to hire 85 engineers in Taiwan over the next three years. The Irvine California based company said it is more than tripling its staff at a chip-design facility in the city of Hsinchu. Source: Orange County Register

November 22, 2003 Boeing Company is planning to  lay off 340 employees at its commercial airplane division in Settle over the next year. Most of the new layoff notices went to employees in the Puget Sound area where the the aerospace manufacturer has its commercial airline division. The notices will be effective on January 23, 2004. The company has cut over 36,490 employees since December 2001. Several thousand employees have also left the company due to attrition. Source: Orange County Register

October 22, 2003 California recorded the largest number of initial claims filed in mass layoff events this September.  29,429, mostly in administrative and support services and in the motion picture and sound recording industries. Texas reported 5,587 initial claims, followed by Illinois (4,510), Pennsylvania (3,481), and New York (3,384). These five states accounted for 60 percent of all layoff events and 56 percent of initial claims for unemployment insurance. Source: Mass Layoff Report < See Note Below

October 21, 2003 After peaking at 17.3 million in July 2000, manufacturing employment has fallen by 2.8 million over 38 consecutive months.

“Tech jobs leave area, go overseas”, (Raleigh, NC) News and Observer, Apr. 4, 2003. http://newsandobserver.com/front/story/2407701p-2241912c.html

“A Mainframe-Size Visa Loophole”, Business Week, Mar. 6, 2003. http://www.businessweek.com/careers/content/mar2003/ca2003036_6655.htm

“The New Global Job Shift”, Business Week, Feb. 3, 2003. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_05/b3818001.htm

Techvisas.com (and associated links): Legal business promoting overseas outsourcing and the importation of technical workers. http://www.techvisas.com/

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