Americans, Divided, Offshoring
Americans divided over offshoring issue
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A national survey by Employment Law Alliance (ELA) found that Americans are deeply divided over offshoring by US companies. Nearly 60 percent of the respondents were of the opinion that companies outsourcing work that could be done by Americans to offshore contractors should be penalized by the US government.
ELA, an independent network of labor and employment attorneys, selected the offshoring as the subject of its latest ‘America at Work’ poll because, according to ELA CEO Stephen J Hirschfeld, “It may be the most volatile issue in the American workplace today with profound economic, social and geo-political consequences.”The ELA survey conducted by market research firm of Reed, Haldy, McIntosh and Associates, also found that 39 percent of American workers believe that American companies should be free to outsource work overseas, while 52 percent said they would turn to government agencies or elected officials for help if their job was threatened by offshoring.
About 37 percent said they would seek help from a labor union, if they thought they might lose their job due to offshoring and 21 percent said they would seek recourse through the courts if their job security was threatened by the possibility of an employer sending their work overseas.
Eight percent said they personally feel their job security is at risk because their employer might send their work overseas, while 46 percent said offshoring is not as much as a crisis as the media has made it out to be.
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