{"id":276,"date":"2013-02-12T12:18:17","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T20:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/oregon\/?p=276"},"modified":"2014-02-09T13:47:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T21:47:49","slug":"oregon-among-the-states-hit-hardest-by-offshoring-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/oregon\/2013\/02\/12\/oregon-among-the-states-hit-hardest-by-offshoring-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon Among the States Hit Hardest by Offshoring in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AWPPW-obama-picket\"<\/a><\/i>Government Data Shows Oregon Lost 4th Most Jobs in Country by Population; Trans-Pacific Partnership Could Accelerate Job Loss Even Further <\/em><\/p>\n

Portland, Ore. \u2014\u00a0 An\u00a0 Oregon fair trade advocacy coalition has released a new analysis of U.S. Labor Department data showing that Oregon lost the fourth most jobs to offshoring out of any state in the country in 2012 when measured by population.<\/p>\n

“The data clearly shows that, year after year, trade agreements have been bleeding Oregon communities of much-needed jobs. 106 mill workers in St. Helens were just laid off from Boise White Paper\u201d said Greg Pallesen, Vice President of the Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers.\u00a0 \u201cRather than stopping the outgoing flow of jobs, this new Trans-Pacific Partnership is likely to open up an artery.\u201d<\/p>\n

The newly compiled data released today by the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign shows that the Labor Department certified 1,911 Oregon jobs as destroyed by either direct offshoring or displacement by imports in 2012, which is a 34% increase over 2011 and brings the total number of trade-displaced jobs certified by the Labor Department in the state since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) took effect in 1994 up to 55,085. <\/p>\n

The following charts show where Oregon stands in relation to other states:<\/p>\n

States with the Most Trade-Related Job Losses Per Capita<\/strong>
\nas Certified by the U.S. Department of Labor (2012)<\/strong><\/p>\n

State – Jobs Lost<\/span>
\n1.\u00a0 Arkansas – 3,769
\n2.\u00a0 Massachusetts – 3,903
\n3.\u00a0 Louisiana – 2,686
\n4.\u00a0 Oregon – 1,911
\n5.\u00a0 Ohio – 5,662<\/p>\n

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Trade Act Program Database<\/a>
\nThe U.S. Labor Department individually certifies workplace layoffs as being trade-related in order to qualify displaced workers for the Trade Adjustment Assistance program.\u00a0 The coalition argues that this data set necessarily undercounts the true number of Oregon jobs that have been offshored, first, because it requires someone to proactively apply for certification and, second, because people in service sector jobs that have been offshored, such as those in call centers or computer programming, have typically been disqualified by law from inclusion in the program.<\/p>\n

Oregon workplaces certified as having trade-related layoffs in 2012 included ATI (Albany), Aosom (Lake Oswego), Agro Group (Portland), Boise (St Helens), CenturyLink (Medford), Cognizant Technology Solutions (Beaverton), Consolidated Pine (Prineville), Cooper Bussman\/Sure Power Industries (Tualatin), FT Material Solutions (Fairview), Fashion Tech (Portland), Hewlett-Packard (Corvallis), IdaTech (Bend), Jeld-Wen (Bend), Kelly Services (Albany), Lattice Semiconductor (Hillsboro), Lumber Products (Tualatin), Maxim Integrated Products (Hillsboro), Peak Sun Silicon
\n(Albany), SIC Processing USA (Portland), Siltronic (Portland), Simple Way (McMinnville), Solaicx (Portland), T-Mobile (Redmond), TE Connectivity (Wilsonville) and Yahoo (Hillsboro).<\/p>\n

\u201cFar too many of Oregon\u2019s families have already suffered through having their livelihoods shipped overseas as a result of bad trade policies like NAFTA,\u201d said Elizabeth Swager, director of the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign.\u00a0 \u201cif trade talks move forward on the Trans-Pacific Partnership it would offshore even more Oregon jobs by forcing local employers to compete with goods made under sweatshop working conditions in countries like Vietnam and Malaysia, where workers are paid even less than those in China.\u00a0 That\u2019s a losing situation for working people in any country.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Trans-Pacific Partnership is currently under negotiation between the United States, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam.\u00a0 Among those countries alone, it would become the largest Free Trade Agreement in U.S. history, but it is also being specifically negotiated as a \u201cdocking agreement\u201d that would be open for any country in the Asia-Pacific region to join.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite having completed fifteen major rounds of TPP negotiations over a period of several years, U.S. negotiators refuse to tell the American public what they\u2019ve been proposing in our names, while granting hundreds of corporate lobbyists access to the negotiating texts,\u201d said Swager.\u00a0 \u201cThis sort of back-room deal-making will not turn out well for working Oregonians, and must be opposed.\u00a0 Every member of Oregon\u2019s Congressional delegation, except Greg Walden, has spoken out against the lack of transparency.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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