New Data Shows White-Collar Workers Hit Hard By Offshoring

6/3/2004

From: Jamie Horwitz, 202-879-4447, jhorwitz@aft.org or Pamela Wilson, 202-638-6684, pwilson@dpeaflcio.org

News Advisory:

-- AFL-CIO's Department for Professional Employees' Analysis of Recently Revised Bureau of Labor Statistics Data Shows Professionals and High-Tech Workers Are the Big Losers to International Competition

The AFL-CIO's Department for Professional Employees (DPE) will hold a news briefing on Friday morning, June 4, to provide analysis of recent federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data showing a major shift in projections for future job growth. Revised BLS data shows that the fastest growing occupations will be primarily low-wage, low-skill jobs; this marks a change from earlier projections showing rapid growth among high skill, high tech professions. This change can be directly linked to the growing use of offshoring.

WHO: DPE President Paul Almeida and DPE Director of Research Pamela Wilson

WHAT: Briefing on revised BLS jobs data showing impact on professional and technical workers

WHEN: 11 a.m., June 4

WHERE: Department for Professional Employees conference room, 1025 Vermont Ave. N.W., Suite 1030, Washington, D.C.

More information is available by visiting the DPE Web site at http://www.dpeaflcio.org

The Department for Professional Employees is an organization of 25 AFL-CIO unions that collectively represent more than 4 million white collar workers. DPE serves as a voice for professional, technical and other highly skilled white-collar workers within the labor movement.