Outsourcing jobs is one of the biggest job killers in America. Outsourcing basically means rich corporate businessmen building factories outside of America where they pay workers the smallest minimum wage with poor working conditions. They do this to avoid regulations and taxation. The outsourcing also does not benefit American workers, because it leads to unemployment and decreased wages for workers whose jobs are not outsourced.
The only people that outsourcing benefits is the rich employers. This is not fair for everyone and this is a large factor in our unemployment rate. Laborers have absolutely no rights and are forced to work in poor conditions. One employee of the outsourced factories said that sometimes they worked 11 or 12 days straight, sometimes up to 18 hours a day, as her company rushed to meet deadlines to get new software to customers. These conditions are simply unfair to employees. Also it is unfair to American workers. One example is International Business Machines Corporation. According to Time Magazine, "Even as IBM [International Business Machines Corporation] proceeds with layoffs of up to 13,000 workers in Europe and the United States, IBM plans to increase its payroll in India this year by more than 14,000 workers." This is proof that outsourcing loses American jobs and something must be done to stop it.
Though it may allow items to be cheaper, outsourcing jobs is simply immoral and wrong. American business is taking advantage of poor countries' lack of regulations and taxes. Something that is economically advantageous for a small group of wealthy people is not always right.
Offshore Outsourcing Will Cost American Jobs (Gale Opposing Viewpoints)
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