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Site Tracks Companies September 24, 2004 It is a well known fact that in the last three years, 2.7 million American jobs have been outsourced by U.S. companies seeking cheap labor. Now anyone with a computer and modem can get the specifics about what companies in which zip codes have sent American jobs offshore. The cold hard story about the United States loss of manufacturing, professional service and information sector jobs is spelled out in devastating, interactive detail at www.workingamerica.org/jobtracker. That site is what the AFL-CIO calls the first database of U.S. companies that have either moved jobs overseas or laid off workers due to trade. Thoroughly researched data culled from Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notices, Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) databases and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings as well as newspaper clippings and research data, give the public a tool communicating the breadth and depth of Americas jobs crisis, said AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka. The site shows that more than 200,000 U.S. companies and their subsidiaries have exported jobs or lost jobs to foreign competition. Every American zip code will yield at least one or two companies within 50 or 100 miles that has been affected negatively by international trade. Visitors to the site can also search by company name or industry. For instance, the Halliburton companies have exported mining, manufacturing and wholesale trade jobs overseas from Texas, Alaska, Oklahoma, Colorado, Nevada, Wyoming and Utah. The site also has a place to report job exporters. "Unfortunately, the official policies of the current administration in Washington promote exporting American jobs instead of attacking the problem," Trumka said. "And, over the last four years, the problem has gotten far worse." According to Forrester Research Inc., the tend is likely to continue. The firm estimates that up to 3.4 million service sector jobs will be offshored between 2003 and 2015.
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