5 Facts About Overseas Outsourcing

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AT&T is the well-known local telecommunications company in the United Stated. We may all familiar with this company. They service for worldwide users and it retail store opened in diversity regions. However, this such international corporate also got the challenge in contract impasses. On 19 May 2017, a huge weekend-long strike started at Friday in AT&T. The unions stated that there are more than ten thousand of workplace especially the call-center jobs and the retails jobs have been cut since 2011. Moreover, the workers are also being required to pay more for their insurance, which differences in retail workers’ commissions. (Scheiber, 2017). According to the official website, AT&T is the world’s largest communications company by revenues which reported consolidated revenue in 2016 is about $163.8 billion (att.com, 2017). The employees cutting and human …show more content…

The union, the Communications Workers of America, proposes that job cuts stem from authorized retailers and overseas call-center work. I think it is because of the lower outsourced labor cost compared to high labor wage in American. An increasing number of industries tend to get more benefits from lower labor cost overseas. Lach supported my thinking in his essay called 5 Facts about Overseas Outsourcing.He approved the tendency not only happens in the U.S., but also Japanese and Western European firms send “both knowledge-based and manufacturing work to third-party firms in other nations”. The authorized retail stores which diverted by retail are not owned by the company or union also have a lower salary or lower compensation for employees.I think this kind of economic strike is always the central topic in bargaining impasses. Economic Strikes are a classic form of strike in contemporary