NationStates Jolt Archive

The Issue
As the nation's unemployment rate skyrockets, citizens have staged a massive protest against corporations outsourcing jobs to poorer nations to take advantage of the lax regulations and cheap labour.

The Debate

1. "This is unacceptable!" decrees Peggy Thiesen, outspoken representative of the National Union of Telephone-based Salesmen. "Sixteen call-centres round the country have already closed because they found they could get cheaper workers in some country no-one's ever heard of! If businesses are allowed to pack up shop and ship jobs out to other countries, our own people will be unemployed and out on the streets. The government must ban this evil corporate practice immediately!"

Iam intrigued. How would "banning" outsourcing work, exactly? Normally Im fairly sure about what position I want to adopt, but I have no idea what effect this would have or how it would work.

Has anyone voted option one on this issue before? What effect does it have?

Well, the general idea is to find someone who is willing to work for less, usually in another country. The funny thing is, not everybody in America is used to working for the same wages as the corporate bureaucrats in New York and LA. I saw a news article recently about a woman who ran an internal outsourcing business. The idea was to set up call centers in rural areas with little hope of employment, where people would be willing to work for less than in the large cities. She had already gotten over a dozen call centers going in Arkansas and North Carolina. She was also expanding into other states.

On a side note, it makes you wonder if raising the minimum wage is that great an idea.