Want to know what local companies have sent jobs overseas?

[Curmudgeoness]

The AFL-CIO has created a website to track companies who have outsourced jobs. They also list companies with violations to labor and worker safety laws. Just enter your zip code, and a list of all companies in your area will be generated.

The site is called Job Tracker and can be accessed at the following link. Go here to find out whether companies near you are shipping jobs overseas, laying off workers, risking the safety and health of workers or charged with violations of workers' rights laws.

http://workingamerica.org/jobtracker

[KT2000]

1. interesting list - but

I checked for one I know about and it is not on the list. It is owned by a holding company so I wonder if those are included.
Holding companies and private equity firms own companies that are still called their old name but are owned by firms in new York and DC etc.

[Curmudgeoness]

2. I guess that they are aware that they may have missed some.

At the top of the page with the search results, there is an option to "report a company". I didn't use it, since I am not aware of any missing companies, but the option it there.

[KT2000]

3. thank you

I have a feeling that companies owned by the equity firms etc. fly under the radar in many respects and that has been a concern. The firm that owns the company I was looking for owns 100 companies and is buying more all the time.
They buy American manufacturers, fire the employees and send the work to China. They maintain a few administrative positions in the US city where the company was located. It is just sickening.

[Curmudgeoness]

4. Grrrrrr. And I really needed to be even more pissed off.

This has been a trend for years and it just disgusts me. Free trade, my ass. This has got to stop.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

6. You can add it. They are encouraging people to submit names

of companies that are not on the list. So instead of whining, submit the company's name to them so it can be added. This is created and maintained by 'the people'.

[KT2000]

8. I will

but for pete's sake I was not whining. I was trying to make the point that companies owned by the holding companies etc. are not accounted for in some of our data. I hope that some day they would constitute a category in themselves so we can see how our manufacturing is being shut down and converted into financial firms. It is a gray area at present that is hiding a lot of destruction of the middle class.

[Curmudgeoness]

9. Holding companies are a serious problem, hiding who owns what

behind layers and layers of shell companies. It is sometimes impossible to determine who is responsible for management of a company. You are right to bring this up. And I don't know the answer. Hell, transparency in business will be harder to accomplish than transparency in government, and we all know how that is working.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

7. You can add it. They are encouraging people to submit names

of companies that are not on the list. So instead of whining, submit the company's name to them so it can be added. This is created and maintained by 'the people'.

[HopeHoops]

5. Just call tech support or customer service. It is pretty obvious.

[Luciferous]

10. Interesting site- not too many companies in my area outsourcing

but a LOT with safety violations.