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• Globe Union Rallies Against Outsourcing

  - 2007-02-28

  To: LABOR EDITORSContact: Cosmo Macero, +1-617-646-1017, or Wesley Eberle, +1-617- 827-4229, both for The Boston Newspaper Guild BOSTON, Feb. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The Boston Newspaper Guild, which represents nearly 1,000 Boston Globe employees, was joined by local unions, Massachusetts labor leaders and elected officials today to protest the outsourcing of...

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• Tidal wave of offshoring began early for Boston-area technology firms.

  - 2004-11-17

  By Beth Healy, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 17--Jim Pinder lost his job to India before most people had ever heard of "offshoring." It was October of 2000. Pinder, then 40, had a master's degree in engineering from...

  Tags: Alcatel-Lucent, Boston Globe, India, job, offshoring, Outsourcing, software

• Putnam eliminates nearly 70 Boston-area jobs.

  - 2004-10-22

  By Beth Healy, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 22--Putnam Investments yesterday eliminated nearly 70 jobs in the Boston area, the company confirmed. The cuts were a result of the decision in June to merge Putnam's retirement-plan servicing...

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• Rise in offshoring pegged at 20 percent annually, consulting firm's study says.

  - 2004-10-13

  By Diane E. Lewis, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 13--No matter who wins the presidential election, the outsourcing of technology jobs is here to stay. With the November election growing nearer, sending jobs to other countries...

  Tags: Boston Globe, consulting, job, Kerry, META Group Inc., offshoring, Outsourcing, U.S.

• Kerry rips handling of war, economy.

  - 2004-09-08

  By Glen Johnson, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 8--GREENSBORO, N.C. -- John F. Kerry yesterday focused on the record $422 billion federal deficit and the growing cost of the Iraq war to question the president's fiscal stewardship, job creation...

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• Massachusetts Trade Groups Report Takes Aim at Concerns about Outsourcing.

  - 2004-04-20

  By Robert Gavin, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 20--The shifting of jobs overseas has been blamed for many of the state's economic woes. But free trade has a flip side: Foreign companies also employ more than 200,000 people in...

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• Economists Say 'Offshoring' Overblown as a Problem.

  - 2004-03-13

  By Stephen J. Glain, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 13--WASHINGTON -- Only in an election year could something statistically insignificant assume seismic proportions. The phenomenon known as "offshoring" the outsourcing abroad of white-collar work represents a...

  Tags: Boston Globe, economist, job, manufacturing, NAFTA, offshoring, outsourcing, worker

• Real Estate Magnate Defends Outsourcing to Boston Chamber Meeting.

  - 2004-02-27

  By Thomas C. Palmer Jr., The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 27--Call it The World According to Zell. Samuel Zell, chairman of the nation's largest real estate investment trust and known for his sometimes contrarian views, said yesterday...

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• Analysts Say Technology Industry Will Lead Way in Overseas Outsourcing.

  - 2002-12-25

  By Diane E. Lewis, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 25--Spurred on by new technology and a shift in the way corporate America does business, employers will move about 3.3 million white-collar service jobs and $136 billion in wages overseas...

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