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Andrew Arballo

American Airlines employees take to the terminal in protest of job cuts - Community Imp... - 0 views

  • Hundreds of American Airlines flight attendants, mechanics, ground service workers and staff spent a few hours of their Valentine's Day protesting their employer's recent announcement of jobs cuts, outsourcing, labor cost reductions and pension changes.
  • American Airlines announced plans to cut approximately 13,000 employee positions
  • American Airlines also plans to reduce an average of $1.25 billion in annual costs across all of its work groups.
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  • Roughly 1,200 employees are anticipated to lose their jobs with the closure of the Fort Worth Alliance Airport maintenance base, as the airlines plans to outsource 40 percent of its aircraft maintenance work.
Dolly Peterson

Integrative Thinking to Win: Is Globalization and Outsourcing "The Devil"? - 0 views

  • Many altruistic people are comfortable drawing parallels between our lifestyle versus those of developing nations, akin to: "You should be happy with what you have compared to what poor people in other countries have." I
Dolly Peterson

In Defense of Responsible Offshoring and Outsourcing - Businessweek - 0 views

  • change by increasing activities and hiring workers outside the U.S., especially in fast-growing foreign markets.
  • Yet, politicians oppose — or at least do not defend, and certainly do not fairly explain — this most fundamental international dimension of global business reality.
  • globalization, but clarity on these issues is especially necessary this year. So here, in brief compass, are my views on the responsible, competitive basics of offshoring and outsourcing which global companies must be prepared to embrace forcefully
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  • Business Purpose.
  • Companies must step up and honestly explain why they offshore business functions and employment in a broad array of product and service activities to compete in a truly global economy. Among the strong (and standard) reasons that non-business people could understand, if properly explained (and if supported by the facts), are:
  • The need to stay cost-competitive with companies headquartered elsewhere, either through reduced finished product/service cost or through supply chain efficiencies;
  • The need to manufacture, assemble, provide services, and do R&D in order to understand and sell in a local market, and to attract great local talent for jobs that would not ever be offered in the U.S.;
  • The need to have a significant employment or plant/equipment presence in a local market because host governments demand it; Because such a presence can also pull a company’s high-end exports from the U.S.; Because a presence can strengthen that market’s economy and thus increase U.S. exports over time;
  • Because any products imported back to the U.S. can benefit consumers and the economy with lower cost (although foreign operations often sell in foreign markets).
Dolly Peterson

IEEE Xplore - Sign In - 0 views

  • The phenomena of outsourcing, globalization and offshoring are impacting the microwave and RF engineering community.
Dolly Peterson

WORLDmag.com | Obama's 'blueprint' for America | Alex Tokarev - 0 views

  • Outsourcing destroys less-efficient jobs at home but simultaneously creates more and better paying ones.
Dolly Peterson

Globalization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • Globalization (or Globalisation) refers to the increasingly global relationships of culture, people and economic activity. Most often, it refers to economics: the global distribution of the production of goods and services, through reduction of barriers to international trade such as tariffs, export fees, and import quotas. Globalization contributes to economic growth in developed and developing countries through increased specialization and the principle of comparative advantage.[1][2] The term can also refer to the transnational circulation of ideas, languages, and popular culture
  • The historical origins of globalization remain subject to debate. Though in common usage it refers to the period beginning in the 1970s, some scholars regard it as having an ancient history that encompasses all international activity
  • Globalization or (Globalisation)refers to the increasingly global relationships of culture, people and economic activity.
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  • Trade, investment, migration and expertise
Dolly Peterson

Ethical Dilemmas of Globalization - 0 views

  • The dynamic force of globalization will continue to change our perceptions, as it reshapes our lives, the way we make a living and the way we relate. 
  • The gap between rich and poor in the world is still very large. The bottom 2.5 billion ,40
  • % of the worlds population live on less than $2 a day and receive only 5% of the worlds income.
Dolly Peterson

Harvard Gazette: Globalization and education explored at GSE - 0 views

  • "Globalization and Education,"
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  • ave thrived in globalization - East Asian countries and the "Celtic Tiger" of Ireland, for instance - share a deep commitment to education
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  • Education should help students synthesize information from a variety of disciplines and geographies, so they understand how economics informs politics, for instance, or that the economy of India can affect their job prospects, said Gardner.
Dolly Peterson

Galis: Debate over Selig proposal reflects global trend | Online Athens - 0 views

  • ew York Times commentator Thomas Friedman reported that CEOs “rarely talk about ‘outsourcing’ these days. Their world is now so integrated that there is no ‘out’ and no ‘in’ anymore. In their businesses, every product and many services now are imagined, designed, marketed and built through global supply chains that seek to access the best quality talent at the lowest cost, wherever it exists. They see more and more of their products today as ‘Made in the World’ not ‘Made in America.’”
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