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Updated 2/2/2004; 1:34:38 PM

Friday, January 23, 2004

Evans Says U.S. Economy Will Keep Growing (AP). AP - The U.S. economy will keep growing and is just starting to add significant new jobs, Commerce Secretary Don Evans said Friday at an international economic forum. [Yahoo! News - Business]
2:38:46 PM    comment []

Foreign Tech Workers Finding Jobs Stateside In Healthier Economy (Investor's Business Daily). Investor's Business Daily - Was there really one at the height of the tech boom? Broad studies of employment and pay cast some doubt on that widely held belief, which in years past spurred the nation to let in more foreign workers. [Yahoo! News - Business]
11:01:04 AM    comment []

Canadian industry punching out As Nortel Networks Corp. talks of unloading the remnants of its assembly operations, amid a tectonic shift in global manufacturing, the astounding aspect is not how many Canadian jobs it would shed, but how few. Only 1,500 Canadian jobs would be affected if the faded powerhouse of Canada's high-tech sector successfully transfers its last manufacturing operations to Flextronics of Singapore. Toronto Globe & Mail [GAM]
10:59:34 AM    comment []

Call centre job fears 'overblown'. The rate at which jobs will flow out of rich countries will not be as high as first feared, according to a report. Around 241,000 jobs will move offshore to countries such as Mexico and South Africa in 2007, according to independent market analyst Datamonitor. But it said the total number of call centre jobs across the world would grow to 4.78 million positions by 2007, compared with 4.2 million in 2003. [BBC News | Business | World Edition]
10:52:34 AM    comment []

Border Agents Assail Bush's Plan to Bring in Guest Workers (Los Angeles Times). Los Angeles Times - HOUSTON — U.S. Border Patrol agents, charged with enforcing the nation's border laws, are furious about President Bush's proposal to create a guest worker program for millions of illegal immigrants, union leaders say. [Yahoo! News - World]
10:49:23 AM    comment []

Gabriel to launch musicians' union. Rock legends Peter Gabriel and Brian Eno will launch a musicians' union to help artists in the digital age. [BBC News | Business | World Edition]
10:47:43 AM    comment []

Bechtel moving major division to Maryland Bechtel National, the company arm overseeing a $3 billion job to rebuild war-torn Iraq, is relocating from San Francisco to Frederick, Md., about 50 miles from Washington, D.C. [Miami Herald: Business]
10:47:30 AM    comment []

The Dark Side of the Outsourcing Revolution. Indian workers are caught in the middle of a growing backlash against the export of U.S white-collar jobs to less developed countries. [AlterNet]
10:42:26 AM    comment []

Shoura Council Reviewing New Labor Law. The move, said the minister, is intended to provide a suitable work atmosphere for Saudi workers employed in the private sector and to encourage this sector to accommodate more national workers. Legal teams will decide whether the dismissal of an employee was arbitrary or not. Arab News, Pro-government, English-language daily of Jidda, Saudi Arabia [Breaking News Headlines from Around the World, Powered by Worldpress.org]
10:36:53 AM    comment []

Southern California Leads US in Upturn California's economy is poised to outperform the nation's in 2005,when a weakened US dollar could help reinvigorate export growth throughout the state, according to a Wells Fargo survey released Tuesday. [CalTrade Report]
10:24:45 AM    comment []

Hundreds of Panasonic jobs at risk. A total of 600 jobs are under threat at Cardiff Wale's Panasonic plant as plans are announced to switch TV production to the Czech Republic. [BBC News | Europe | World Edition]
10:03:58 AM    comment []

Public workers strike in Portugal. Portuguese public workers protest against the government's partial wage freeze policy. [BBC News | Europe | World Edition]
9:57:55 AM    comment []


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