Don’t let taxpayers subsidize companies that send U.S....
Don’t let taxpayers subsidize companies that send U.S. call center jobs abroad, said House and Senate lawmakers and the Communications Workers of America this week, touting a bill introduced earlier this fall (http://bit.ly/1asx5cU). Sen. Robert Casey, D-Pa., introduced the Senate…
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version, S-1565, co-sponsored by Banking Committee Chairman Tim Johnson, D-S.D., and referred to the Commerce Committee. Rep. Tim Bishop, D-N.Y., introduced HR-2909, which has 42 co-sponsors and was referred to the House Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. Casey, Bishop, and Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va., joined with CWA members Wednesday at a Capitol Hill event to formally introduce the legislation, dubbed the Press One for America provision of the U.S. Call Center Worker and Consumer Protection Act of 2013. The section in question would compel call center workers to say where their calls are originating and permit call recipients to transfer to a U.S. facility if the worker is outside the U.S. Companies sending such jobs abroad would not be allowed to receive federal loans, grants and subsidies for three years, the bill proposes. It would also make sure there’s a public list of companies that send such jobs abroad.