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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 ::
Fired workers train successors By Stephanie Armour, USA Today
Staffers losing jobs to overseas outsourcing may boost last paycheck if they cooperate.
When computer programmer Stephen Gentry learned last year that Boeing was laying him off and shipping his job overseas, he wasn't surprised. Many of his friends had the same experience.
But what stunned him was his last assignment: Managers had him train the worker from India who would be taking his job.
"It was very callous," says Gentry, 51, of Auburn, Wash., a father of three who is still unemployed. "They asked us to make them feel at home while we trained them to take our jobs."
Outsourcing Is the American Way By Victor A. Canto, NRO
In contrast, the costs of outsourcing are concentrated in a particular special-interest group — displaced employees.------------------------------------------- posted 7:41 AM :: reference link ::
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