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2004/9/27 [Industry/Jobs] UID:33782 Activity:high
9/26    White collar unions, hi-tech still sucks:
        http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/biztech/09/15/techjobslump.ap/index.html
        \_ Too late, we should have formed one when we had the bargaining
           power back in the late 90s. But then all the moron sysadmins
           were convinced that they were doing well because they were
           brilliant, not because of the economy. Now they are all
           taking pay cuts (if they are good) or out of work (if they
           are not) and employers will fire anyone who even dares
           to say the word "union."
           \_ On the other hand, the good engineers should be thankful that
              no union was formed.  Otherwise after the bubble bursted, the
              only ones that would still have jobs are those with high
              seniority, not high ability.
              \_ There is that. We wouldn't be losing so many jobs to
                 outsourcing if there were tech unions though.
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SEATTLE, Washington (AP) -- The US information tech sector lost 403,300 jobs between March 2001 and this past April, and the market for tech workers remains bleak, according to a new report. Perhaps more surprising, just over half of those jobs -- 206,300 -- were lost after experts declared the recession over in November 2001, say the researchers from the University of Illinois-Chicago. In all, the researchers said, the job market for high-tech workers shrank by 188 percent, to 1,743,500 over the period studied. According to the study, the job losses were especially pronounced in San Francisco, which saw high-tech employment shrink by 49 percent between March 2001 and April 2004. Boston also suffered disproportionately, with the number of high-tech jobs falling by 341 percent. Researchers Snigdha Srivastava and Nik Theodore compiled the numbers using the Current Employment Statistics survey and the Current Population Survey. The report, funded by the Ford Foundation, was conducted for the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers, a Seattle organization that wants to unionize workers at Microsoft Corp. Theodore, director of the university's Center for Urban Economic Development, said one factor in the staggering high-tech job losses is the familiar lament that businesses have been wary to hire because of uncertainty over how much the economy is improving. But he also attributes some of the job losses to corporations farming high-tech jobs out to overseas companies whose labor is cheaper. Theodore said the study shows that high-tech workers "are really bearing the brunt of economic restructuring strategies." It also shows that the end of the recession did not signal the end of high-tech job woes, he said. "Not only has it not turned around, in many cases it has gotten worse," said Theodore. However, Sung Won Sohn, chief economist at Wells Fargo Bank, says he has seen some evidence that the high-tech job market began improving in the months after this study was completed. Overall, Sohn thinks the industry will rebound although the new jobs created might require different skills. That still leaves high-tech workers in better shape than other industries, he said. "I view the setbacks in tech as temporary," he said, "whereas if you're talking about old-style manufacturing, those jobs are gone forever." Marcus Courtney, head of the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers, said the tight job market, combined with growing fears that existing jobs will be lost to outsourcing, has increased interest in unionizing from workers at companies including Sun Microsystems, Apple Computer Inc. "We are really starting to see the beginnings of a high-tech labor movement in this country," he said The Seattle metropolitan area lost 108 percent of its high-tech jobs during the period, faring better than some other regions. The employment picture has become a hot-button issue in the US presidential race. Though the overall US economy added 144,000 jobs in August, it still has lost 913,000 positions since President Bush took office. When the August jobs numbers were released earlier this month, Bush said the figures offered proof that the economy was getting stronger. John Kerry's campaign argued that job growth should be faster.