[Seattle-editorial] FEATURE PROPOSAL: AT&T Offshoring Jobs

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Thanks Jonathan, please post we need a new story.

Judy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jonathan lawson [mailto:jonathan at indymedia.org]
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 02:44 AM
> To: seattle-editorial at indymedia.org
> Subject: [Seattle-editorial] FEATURE PROPOSAL: AT&T Offshoring Jobs
> 
> subtitle:
> Title: AT&T Wireless Exporting Tech Jobs to India
> 
> The layoffs happen by ones and twos, AT&T Wireless employees say. Some 
> employees are quietly called into a manager's office and simply told that 
> their jobs are being eliminated. Others are told that they will be 
> participating in a "pilot project" where they are expected to train an 
> employee of an offshore outsourcing firm how to perform their job. The goal 
> of the pilot project, they later learn, is to move jobs to India, where 
> qualified, English-speaking employees will work for as little as 10 percent 
> of the salary U.S. workers are paid. Sources say that 70 percent of  the 
> company's IT employees, most based in Redmond and Bothell, will lose their 
> jobs. If true, Washington's wireless telecom workforce could soon be 
> reduced by about 20 percent.
> 
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> href="http://www.washtech.org/wt/news/industry/display.php?ID_Content=4632">
> WashTech has the complete story.</a>
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