OUTSOURCING & GLOBALIZATION

• Scenes from an industry (Aliza Earnshaw, 10/05)

−  Oregon's semiconductor industry exemplifies some of the core changes in the U.S. chip industry as a whole.

−  The trend of outsourcing manufacturing to other countries has certainly threatened some of Oregon's semiconductor manufacturing jobs.

−  Higher education is the key to keeping Oregon's semiconductor industry healthy and growing

• Foreign plants add a resource (Richard Read, 11/05)

−  Supporters of offshoring, the practice of relocating business operations abroad, cheer the trend toward full-service foreign factories.

−  We won't move all of our manufacturing abroad for various reasons, chief among them the need to service U.S. customers.

• Outsourced Oregon (Matthew Kish, 06/08/07)

−  State ranks near top in federal assistance for jobs lost overseas

−  Union groups say the loss of jobs overseas has reached a boiling point

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