Posted on 03/07/2007 7:23:07 PM PST by Milhous
JOURNALISTS have reported extensively on information technology and financial services work migrating offshore. Now it's their own jobs they can see disappearing over the horizon.
In Britain and the US, the so-called outsourced newspaper is becoming a reality.
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"Whatever the risks and potential pitfalls, outsourcing is here to stay," the WAN report said. "The newspaper industry has only recently begun taking tentative steps into outsourcing what were once considered core competencies such as editorial, advertising and circulation. But the trend is gaining momentum."
(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.news.com.au ...
Boston Globe to lose 55 jobs to India
The local unions, Massachusetts labour leaders and elected officials joined the Boston Newspaper Guild, which represents nearly 1,000 Boston Globe employees, to protest the outsourcing of Boston Globe jobs to India by the New York Times Company.
The New York Times Company, which owns the Boston Globe, had recently announced the elimination of more than 120 jobs at the Boston Globe. Of these, 55 jobs in advertising finance will be outsourced to India.
The job cuts came less than one month after Boston Newspaper Guild members ratified a four-year contract containing no guaranteed wage increases and significantly higher employee health care costs.
The protest came on a day when the Boston Globe had previously scheduled a business symposium entitled, "How to attract and keep good workers."
"The hypocrisy of the New York Times Company is staggering," said Dan Totten, president of the Boston Newspaper Guild on Wednesday. "We are here today to call for a stop to the slash and burn policies of this absentee landlord."
"Despite employees' good-faith approval less than two months ago of a four-year contract containing difficult wage freezes and increases in health care costs, Boston Globe employees are now faced with the indignity and outrage of seeing their jobs shipped overseas," said Totten.
The outsourcing of Boston Globe jobs to India fits a systematic pattern of divestment in the Globe by the New York Times Company, Totten said, noting that The Boston Globe has eliminated more than 200 jobs since 2005.
"Our members recognise the challenges facing our industry, but we believe that the way to succeed in a difficult marketplace is to invest in the human resources of the Globe, the very people who have built this great newspaper into the great institution that it is today. The way forward must not be paved with outsourced workers and disappearing jobs," Totten added.
These measures come on top of other cost-cutting moves, such as shutting all of the Boston Globe's foreign news bureaus - a troubling sign of the Times Company's disinterest in the Globe's journalistic ambitions and the newspaper's mission as a vital news source, he added.
Boston papers protest outsourcing to India
The local unions, Massachusetts labour leaders and elected officials joined the Boston Newspaper Guild, which represents nearly 1,000 Boston Globe employees, to protest the outsourcing of Boston Globe jobs to India by the New York Times Company.
The New York Times Company, which owns the Boston Globe, had recently announced the elimination of more than 120 jobs at the Boston Globe. Of these, 55 jobs in advertising finance will be outsourced to India.
The job cuts came less than a month after Boston Newspaper Guild members ratified a four-year contract containing no guaranteed wage increases and significantly higher employee health care costs.
The protest came on a day when the Boston Globe had previously scheduled a business symposium entitled, ‘How to Attract and Keep Good Workers.’
Unions call for newspapers to halt outsourcing
Yesterday, the people who usually print the news were making news of their own.
About 100 demonstrators representing local newspapers and unions called for the New York Times Company to stop outsourcing and eliminating jobs in front of The Boston Globe's main location on Morrissey Boulevard in Dorchester.
In the past few years, The New York Times Company has been making widespread administrative cuts, including some in various newsroom bureaus, to save money.
Protesters said the cuts made by the Times Company, which owns the Globe, have eliminated 120 local advertising and circulation jobs from the company. The Boston Newspaper Guild, joined by representatives from other area newspapers, including South Boston's The Patriot Ledger, said the cuts indicate the Times Company is ignoring the needs of the local community.
"[The Times Company] preaches ethics," said guild president Dan Totten. "They should be ashamed of themselves."
Massachusetts AFL-CIO President Bob Haynes denounced the recent layoffs and said future employee cuts could cripple the Globe.
"People in the community made this newspaper," he said. "It was built on the sweat and intelligence of the people who put it together."
Many protesters held picket signs reading "Stop corporate greed" and "It's The Boston Globe - not the Bombay Globe."
State Sen. Jarrett Barrios (D-Boston) told The Daily Free Press rallies like yesterday's can be effective in reaching top management and policymakers if the public notices the efforts.
Leaning on a "Boston, not Bombay" picket sign, he said the Times Company will take notice of the protests if readership and subscriptions suffer.
"It is important in any city to have a newspaper that can cover that city," Barrios said. "If the Globe loses its local touch, Boston will lose out."
Totten said he hopes the community will notice the protest. The guild also has plans to rally at upcoming Globe-sponsored events in the near future, including flower and travel shows.
Oh, the brutality of free markets...
You just noticed?
Walmart has positions that require people used to dealing with the public; e.g., greeters.
It's their howdy duty.
BUMP!
It's cheaper to make news up in India.
MSM bump
And why shculd I care, Dan, baby?
Laugh of the Day, thanks!
This is wonderful news!
For years all these left wing reporters wrote approvingly of outsourcing and open borders and made heroes out of the millions of illegal aliens invading the country. "Doing the work Americans won't do" and calling anyone who was against these illegals or the job outsourcing as "bigots", "racists" and "nativists".
It was all OK as long as it was average or lower class Americans that were hurt, like carpenters, hotel maids, busboys, drywallers, crop pickers, painters. They loved all the cheap labor and goods and didn't give a damn about displaced fellow Americans.
Now it is starting to cut into their territory, like these newspaper jobs, and a lot of others like programmers, auto workers, accountants, radiology analysts, banking. There's a lot of work you can do cheaper overseas or here with cheap imported labor. Hopefully we can start seeing the TV talking heads who are so much for illegal immigration (Fox being one of the worst collections where everyone is all for illegals and open borders) having their jobs taken over by cheaper English speakers with better diction and better looks (I prefer Scandanavian and Aussie chicks doing the news and talk than the airheads and expiring journalists that do it now).
Wait till you hear the squeals not that the MSM is starting to be affected by this open borders and outsourcing. Maybe we could outsource Congress too.
Actually, it's a book, "Howdy, duty" where duty = tariffs. The author is an expert on importing goods and has another book "If you hafta NAFTA." It was a good laugh.
Newsflash: Readership and subscriptions have been suffering and will continue to do so. How will they be able to tell if the future hemorrhaging is from people moving to the internet or if it's from union sympathizers? Tough predicament for the unions. Those who are weened off the paper most likely will not come back once they are used to the up-to-the-minute internet.
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