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Updated 2/23/2004; 12:39:53 PM
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Friday, February 13, 2004 |
Global Labour Survey
Eric Lee, LabourStart
February 12, 2004
Every year, the World Economic Forum -- you know, the people who meet at Davos -- produces a "Global Competitiveness Report." They ask the World Bank and corporate executives around the world about economic conditions in different countries. But they don't ask us -- people who know the labour scene -- about how workers and unions fare around the world.Our friends at Harvard University's Labor and Worklife Program thought it would be a good idea to try to conduct a survey of our own. They're calling it the Global Labour Survey. It is aimed at people like yourselves and when the results are announced in May 2004, they expect to receive worldwide attention.We interviewed Richard Freeman, author of the survey, and you can hear what he has to say about it on Radio LabourStart, http://radio.labourstart.org
We're convinced that if we can get a large number of you to take the time to fill out this online survey, we can present an alternative view to the one the WEF is presenting. A view based on your own experience as trade unionists.It's hugely important and we'll need thousands of you to respond in order to get this right.
The survey is located here: http://gls.law.harvard.edu/
It's available in English, French and Spanish.
This survey is completely confidential. You will not be identified nor will you be added to any mailing lists. We know that it takes a few minutes of your time to fill this in, and we appreciate the effort that you'll be making. You have our gratitude.Once you've filled in the survey yourself, please pass on this message and make sure that your union's publication mentions the survey as well.
12:43:24 PM 
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Study: Outsourcing increases earnings gap in California
Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal
February 13, 2004
Foreign outsourcing can boost the profit margins for high-tech firms but it also contributes to the growing earnings disparities between blue- and white-collar workers in California, says a new book by researchers at the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY'S HAAS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS.
In "Globalization and a High-Tech Economy: California, the U.S. and Beyond," published by Kluwer Academic Press, the authors analyze the impacts of the globalization of high technology on job opportunities, wage distribution, community resources, regional growth patterns, the prospects for new business development, and the very structure of these businesses.
"This book explains why high tech is a driver of U.S. gross domestic product growth at the same time the sector appears to be bleeding jobs to outsourcing activity overseas," says DWIGHT JAFFEE, A PROFESSOR OF BANKING, FINANCE AND REAL ESTATE, who co-wrote the book with SENIOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATE ASHOK DEO BARDHAN and CYNTHIA KROLL, A SENIOR REGIONAL ECONOMIST....
Source: UC Berkeley in the News
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