>[Worshippers of the cult of sovereignty, they *still* don't get
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>["The international corporation has no country to which it owes more
>loyalty than any other, nor any country where it feels completely at
>home." Charles Kindleberger]
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>http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/191184_aflcio17.html
>Friday, September 17, 2004
>Union sets up database to track job outsourcing
>By MATTHEW KELLY
>SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER WASHINGTON BUREAU
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>WASHINGTON -- The AFL-CIO cranked up its campaign to stop the export of
>U.S. jobs yesterday by launching a new database designed to track
>companies that outsource jobs overseas.
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>The union said it hopes American workers will use the information to press
>elected officials to take steps to discourage job loss.
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>Richard Trumka, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, said the new Job
>Tracker database will help workers know which companies are exporting
>jobs, "and they can use that information to fight back."
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>Visitors to the Web site (www.workingamerica.org) are urged to write
>President Bush and their senators and House members to tell them to stop
>the export of jobs overseas. To make that task easier, the Web site will
>fax a pre-written form letter automatically if visitors provide their name
>and address.
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>"It's our hope that all workers and the whole public will then flood the
>White House and flood their congressional representatives with faxes and
>messages with how upset they are that U.S. companies are shipping jobs
>abroad," AFL-CIO spokeswoman Sarah Massey said.
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>Trumka called for the end to tax breaks for U.S. companies doing business
>abroad, which the union cites as a major incentive for companies to
>outsource jobs.
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>The Job Tracker allows users to search by ZIP code or industry sector for
>companies that have either moved jobs overseas or reported layoffs due to
>international competition.
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What is hilarious is that it doesn't work. Perhaps they can get some Indian programmers to fix it. Owen Byrne