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Friday, March 16

It’s the Bengaluru Globe, actually

The Boston Globe’s largest union is protesting management’s plan to subcontract some ops to a company in India:

The Boston Newspaper Guild launched an angry advertising blitz this week to slam The Boston Globe’s proposed plan to outsource the jobs of some 50 workers to India… the move [is to] subcontract some billing, production and advertising work to India…

“It’s the Boston Globe, not the Bangalore Globe,” screamed a print advertisement which ran this week in [its rival] the Boston Herald… [In another example of outsourcing,] Reuters’ Bangalore operation… boasts more than 1,000 employees… [Link]

What’s funny is that the same people protesting globalization also protest poverty. Yet at the same time they oppose building economically efficient orgs which help U.S. workers and the economy. And they oppose helping Bangaloreans who are objectively less wealthy. So for many, it’s really an anti-modernity-if-it-takes-money-from-me movement.

Economics drives history, and new technologies spark its Cambrian explosions. Protesting it is as useful as protesting the sun.

manish vij on Friday, March 16th, 2007, 3:07 am in Economics, Media › Email this Email this › Tweet this › Facebook this › Reddit this › Link › Reader links

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3 comments

  1. 1JangiahMaN › history on March 17th, 2007, 8:08 pm › Link

    What’s funny is that the same people protesting globalization also protest poverty. Yet at the same time they oppose building economically efficient orgs which help U.S. workers and the economy. And they oppose helping Bangaloreans who are objectively less wealthy.

    It seemed a pithy comment but I think that none of your hypotheses are relevant here.

    H1: The same people protesting globalization also protest poverty.
    H2: They oppose building economically efficient organizations.
    H3: They oppose helping Bangaloreans.

    The role of the protesting body is to safeguard the interests of their members. They’ve attempted the same by raising the matter’s profile in front of the public. Their hands are tied because to do anything like shut down the paper or sabotage (like what would happen in india) would lead to further job losses. All they can hope for is to raise enough discontent that the voting public influences a legislator in yanking away the teat of some juicy government advertising program.

    indians would be more direct. some toughs (with the patronage of the opposition party) would actually go cause physical pain or damage to influence change or embass the ruling party - which btw would be in bed with the publisher.

    That being said, this ad seems to be more out of fear of the unknown. I do not believe jobs were actually lost here and this seems a preemptive strike to warn the publisher against further such initiatives.

  2. 2Mohan › history on March 18th, 2007, 9:26 pm › Link

    Now that it is hitting them below their belt .. does it surprise some that western Journos are cribbing about Offshoring . . . of their jobs?

  3. 3sakshi › history on March 21st, 2007, 9:42 am › Link

    Its natural for people to be angry when they lose jobs due to forces beyond their control. But the same people won’t be having these jobs and the lifestyles if not for forces beyond their control: the country we are born in decides our standard of living more than anything else. Paraphrasing Calvin: ‘I know life is unfair. Why isn’t it always unfair in my favor.’


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