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Scuba

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Thu Feb 28, 2013, 06:53 PM Feb 2013

U.S. Department of Labor: Wisconsin #1 in Jobs Sent Overseas

http://uppitywis.org/blogarticle/us-deparment-labor-wisconsin-1-jobs-sent-overseas


The United States Department of Labor tracks jobs sent over seas through something called the Trade Adjustment Assistance program or TAA. Because this program involves a lengthy petition process only a fraction of workers that lose their jobs due to outsourcing participate in the program and are therefore counted. However, it is the only government agency that officially documents jobs that have been sent overseas, so it provides a rough measure of how many jobs a state is losing to outsourcing and how a state compares to other states.

In the most recent data available, TAA has documented Wisconsin lost 2,349 Wisconsin jobs to oursourcing in the year of 2011. In a ranking of states with at least two million people, Wisconsin leads in the number of jobs lost in proportion to their overall population (=new 2011 TAA partipants):

1. Wisconsin (2,349)
2. Michigan (3,709)
3. South Carolina (1,623)
4. North Carolina (2,717)

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Includuded in Wisconsin's recent TAA-documented jobs sent overseas:
Ford Motors / Johnson Control: Because Ford Motors moved their production of the Ford Ranger to Brazil and Thailand, Johnson Controls plant in Hudson, which made seats for the Ford Ranger plant in St. Paul, MN has been shuttered and hundreds of jobs have moved to Thailand and Brazil. Johnson Controls also sent their call center jobs in Milwaukee to Manilla.

Harley Davidson sent their data center jobs department to India.

Badger Meter (water meter maker in Milwuakee) is sending manufacturing jobs to their Nogoles, Mexico plant.

Thermo-Fischer in Madison sent production jobs to China and Thermo-Fischer's Two Rivers plant was shuttered and all 249 workers lost their jobs to a Mexico plant.

Hutchinson Technology (a computer components manufacturer in Eau Claire) is sending jobs to Thailand.

Koch Brothers' Georgia Pacific is sending their folded paper napkin line jobs to China.

Regal Beloit Corporation (they make electrical and mechanical motion control products) have sent more jobs to their Mexico plant.

Wausau Paper's Brokaw Mill shuttered and the jobs were sent to China, resulting in a loss of 450 jobs.

Brake Parts Inc. is moving their rotor production jobs in Waupaca to China.

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U.S. Department of Labor: Wisconsin #1 in Jobs Sent Overseas (Original Post) Scuba Feb 2013 OP
It's a mystery as to why, with all the tax cuts, Wisconsin is draining jobs from this state... midnight Feb 2013 #1
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