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Outsourcing Jobs to Foreign Countries
Frank Soto Jr.
Axia College of University of Phoenix
COM120
William Hamlin
February 1, 2007
It is becoming progressively more popular in today's job market for companies to
outsource American-held jobs to foreign countries. This situation is affecting more and more
people and especially here in El Paso, Texas. Soon to be outsourced is Air System Components,
or ASC, as it plans to lay off about 68 people from its' two El Paso manufacturing plants this
January. It plans to move some of its operations to Juarez, Mexico, our neighbor city.
Air System Components manufactures vents for air conditioning and heating systems. These
are the latest job losses in El Paso's manufacturing sector, which has lost thousands of jobs in
the recent years. The sector lost 700 jobs between October 2005 and October 2006, the state's
latest employment data show. Situations like these make me upset because El Paso is a
medium size city that does not have the luxury of losing its' jobs.
These types of situations are viewed very differently from the perspective of
profitability for the companies versus the emotional and financial effect that the outsourcing
has on the employees. In some cases outsourcing causes employees to quit ahead of time. This
makes it more complicated for the person because he or she won't be able to find a job right
away. There are companies who have their fired employee train his or her own replacement. I
believe the number one reason why companies employ foreign labor is its profi ...