IT professionals and unions warn of the damaging effects of moving IT offshore

摘要

Many IT staff in the UK who believe they have lost their livelihoods because of IT work moving offshore to countries such as India plan to make their voices heard in 2004. One such activist is Maldwyn Palmer, an experienced IT professional in his fifties who is struggling to find work. Palmer formed Stop Offshore Outsourcing Now in the autumn of 2003. "Our aim is to raise the issue and persuade some MPs to take up our case. Our objective is to stop the outflow of IT and other jobs," he said. "The campaign is purely grass-ro'ots, was started by myself and involves a loose collection of like-minded IT professionals who see their future under threat."