We’re picking up where we left off yesterday in the discussion of the U.S. Call Center and Consumer Protection Act (HR 3596), a piece of legislation introduced by Rep. Tim Bishop (D-NY) aimed at encouraging call-center businesses to keep customer service jobs in America instead of sending them overseas. Earlier this month, Software Advice blogger [...]
The push to bring outsourced jobs back to American shores gained momentum last week, when recently proposed legislation to close tax loopholes for call centers received an overwhelming endorsement from lawmakers. According to an article in last Friday’s Indian Express, 106 members of the U.S. House of Representatives signed on as co-sponsors to the U.S. [...]
When the Maine Chamber of Commerce and the state departments of labor and health and human services held their conference in Freeport demonstrating the value of employing people with disabilities to area businesses earlier this month (which we touched on to make a point about outsourcing to Americans), Portland’s television station, WCSH channel 6, was [...]
Just like any other business, contract services have to evolve to stay in step with changes in the marketplace; meaning that people with disabilities who work in these environments have to be equally adaptable to learning new skills. In Missouri, a contract services organization is finding more work in recycling and packing than its traditional [...]
How to bring outsourced jobs back to Americans continues to be a story worthy of media coverage. There had been an uptick in manufacturing jobs returning to American shores even before President Obama made the issue a central part of his most recent State of the Union address. These are the kinds of jobs economists [...]
Frito-Lay, International Paper, and Bates-Troy are just three of about 15-20 companies benefiting from contract labor services provided by people with disabilities, according to a report filed last week by WBNG Channel 12 Action News reporter Matt Markham. Markham talks to Mary Jo Thorn, an official from the contract services provider, who says that her [...]
When writing about people with disabilities in the labor force, we spend a lot of time talking about how technology aids them in performing daily tasks, navigating the workplace, and communicating with customers and colleagues. But Drake Bennett’s article in Tuesday’s Bloomberg Businessweek examines a job opportunity where people with disabilities can aid in the [...]
The Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) kicked off its national “Should Be Made in America” campaign on Monday, designed to encourage state and local governments to use domestic labor and resources rather than outsourcing to other countries. BusinessNewsDaily.com contributor Chad Brooks writes that the AAM launched its campaign at the site of the San Francisco-Oakland [...]
A Huffington Post editorial written last week by Jay Pelosky offered an upbeat perspective on the rebound of America’s manufacturing sector, both in the short-term and for the future. Pelosky’s bio identifies him as an investment strategy expert for J2Z Advisory LLC who also sits on the board of the World Policy Institute. In his [...]
A recent dispatch by Reuters correspondent Scott Malone revealed top executives from some of America’s leading manufacturers second-guessing earlier decisions by themselves and their peers to outsource labor. According to Malone, General Electric CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt’s annual letter to shareholders said the factors in the manufacturing equation have changed in a way that makes [...]