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Lok-Hin Yuen

National defence union fights government plan to outsource security jobs | iPolitics - 1 views

  • online campaign urging the government to reconsider outsourcing 91 national security jobs, a transfer current employees say would put the country’s safety at risk.
  • plan to outsource dozens of jobs at Communications Security Establishment Canada, the low-key federal agency responsible for monitoring foreign signals and military intelligence
  • potential consequences of allocating the low-level jobs to Plenary Group, a private company that is also working on the construction of the department’s new multimillion-dollar headquarters
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  • Allowing a private organization into national security . . . is going to make the country – and other countries Canada does business with – vulnerable
  • Simpson said government jobs will not be lost in the transition and that about 20 new public-service positions will be created to manage the department’s relationship with private contractors.
  • Simpson said he could not comment how effective the union tactic was
Chris Li

The Progressive Economics Forum » Garbage In, Garbage Out - 4 views

  • contract-out garbage collection for half of the City of Toronto as soon as possible as the first step to outsourcing everything we can by next year.
  • Much of the rationale for contracting-out is that private waste collection will save the city many millions of dollars.   However, these figures are based on misinformation and distorted statistics. 
  • Toronto’s costs in 2009 were $72.22 per tonne.  Costs for Mississauga and Brampton as part of the Peel regional municipality were $106.79 per tonne.  Vaughan’s costs were $168.40 per tonne.   The other regional municipalities also had higher costs: Durham at $85.74 per tonne and Halton at  $86.79 per tonne.
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  • costs for residents of Toronto for private waste collection will increase by at least 20% a year or more than $6 milllion per year and could be 50% or $16 million higher. 
  • From their estimates they claimed that Toronto could save $49 million per year from contracting-out all its waste collection. 
  • they used an econometric technique called “fixed effects regression” which effectively engineered the results they were looking for.  
  • “The most recent studies have found no difference in costs.  Cost savings from privatization erode over time….”.
Chris Li

Offshoring and inshoring in the balance - The Globe and Mail - 3 views

  • Relatively few Canadian companies are offshoring or outsourcing their activities, according to the study, part of the department’s annual Canada’s State of Trade 2010 report.
  • Overall, just 1.9 per cent of Canadian-based companies moved an activity to a foreign country between 2007 and 2009. In manufacturing, the percentage was higher at 5.2 per cent, but still relatively low.
  • At the same time, 1.8 per cent of companies (and 5 per cent of manufacturers) shifted work into Canada -- so-called inshoring.
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  • So it seems a bit of a stretch to conclude, as the DFAIT report does, that offshoring is “subdued.”
Lok-Hin Yuen

Corporate taxes being cut, Canadian jobs being lost - 0 views

  • The layoff of 100 Bell Canada workers is appalling, and a clear sign the next federal government needs to do much more to protect Canadian workers
  • BCE has eliminated close to 700 clerical jobs in Ottawa, many of the positions being outsourced outside of Canada.
  • The layoff of these workers is a far too common example of how the 'trickle-down' thinking of the Harper Conservatives is failing Canadian workers
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  • corporate tax cuts are not creating jobs or investments, and they are not helping Canadians recover from the global recession
Kevin Yeo

Can Made in USA survive in a global economy? Should it? - USATODAY.com - 1 views

  • Perry also said that, at $2.155 trillion, total U.S. manufacturing output is 45% higher than China's. Despite the increase in output, however, the number of jobs in the U.S. manufacturing sector is down more than 7 million since the late 1970s.
  • But when asked if large corporations have a responsibility during these tough economic times to buy American to create more American jobs, his answer was clear: No.
  • Some have argued the "Made in USA" label is too exclusive and can actually hurt the economy by discouraging consumers from buying goods that are not completely made within US borders, but which benefit the country by creating jobs or promoting innovation.
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