New website tracks jobs going overseas

Working families now have a first-of-its-kind tool to determine which companies in their communities are exporting jobs. WORKING AMERICA, a community affiliate of the AFL-CIO, Thursday launched “Job Tracker,”

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an online, interactive database with information on more than 200,000 U.S. corporations and their subsidiaries that are reported to have moved jobs overseas, including jobs lost due to flawed U.S. trade policies.

“This job crisis is not inevitable,” AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer said during a press conference announcing the launch of Job Tracker. “Unfortunately, the official policies of the current administration in Washington promote exporting American jobs instead of attacking the problem. And, over the last four years, the problem has gotten far worse.”

Since President George W. Bush took office in 2001, the United States has lost 2.7 million manufacturing jobs and 850,000 professional and business services and information jobs, many of which have been shipped overseas. In fact, up to 14 million white-collar jobs could be sent overseas in the coming years, according to a study by the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics housed at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

Search by company and industry
Visitors to the Job Tracker site can search the database by company name or ZIP code, or by ZIP code and industry. Within seconds, detailed results are culled from a database that draws from more than a dozen sources, including U.S. Department of Labor’s Trade Adjustment Assistance records, Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act notices, company annual reports and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings.

The Job Tracker site also enables visitors to report companies exporting jobs in their communities and send a fax to Bush and anti-worker members of Congress urging them to stop rewarding companies with tax incentives to export American jobs.

St. Paul worker makes the case
Exporting jobs is a key issue for working families in the 2004 elections, said Wendy Meath, a member of Machinists Local 459 in St. Paul, Minn., who participated in the news conference. Meath, who was employed for 31 years by Home Products International, recently lost her job when the company moved its operations to Mexico.

“My fellow workers are not OK. Their unemployment has run out, they have no health insurance and they have been unable to find jobs,” Meath said. “America needs to wake up and realize our situation is not unique.”

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Reprinted from the national AFL-CIO website.

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