Monday, January 28, 2008
[IWS] CRS: SERVICE WORKERS--TRADE AJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE EXTENSION? [23 November 2007]
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Congressional Research Service (CRS)
Order Code RS22761
November 23, 2007
Extending Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) to Service Workers: How Many Workers Could Potentially Be Covered? [online January 2008]
John J. Topoleski, Analyst in Income Security, Domestic Social Policy Division
http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/RS22761_20071123.pdf
[full-text, 6 pages]
Summary
Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) provides income support and training
assistance to workers who become unemployed for certain trade-related reasons. Only
workers who make an article (i.e., manufacturing workers) are eligible for TAA. Under
current law, service workers who become unemployed for a trade-related reason (e.g.,
outsourcing) are ineligible for TAA. Several bills in the 110th Congress (S. 1848, H.R.
910, H.R. 3589, H.R. 3920) would expand TAA to include service workers and public
sector employees. The available data indicates that the number of displaced
manufacturing workers in offshorable occupations from 2003 to 2005 (489,000) roughly
equals the number of TAA-certified manufacturing workers over the same period
(450,000). There were 840,000 workers displaced from offshorable nonmanufacturing
occupations from 2003 to 2005, suggesting that the pool of TAA-eligible workers could
have increased by over 170% if service workers had been eligible for TAA. In January
2006, nearly three times as many employed nonmanufacturing workers were in
offshorable occupations (20.7 million) than employed manufacturing workers in
offshorable occupations (7.7 million), suggesting a large increase in the pool of
potentially eligible TAA workers.
______________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
Congressional Research Service (CRS)
Order Code RS22761
November 23, 2007
Extending Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) to Service Workers: How Many Workers Could Potentially Be Covered? [online January 2008]
John J. Topoleski, Analyst in Income Security, Domestic Social Policy Division
http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/RS22761_20071123.pdf
[full-text, 6 pages]
Summary
Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) provides income support and training
assistance to workers who become unemployed for certain trade-related reasons. Only
workers who make an article (i.e., manufacturing workers) are eligible for TAA. Under
current law, service workers who become unemployed for a trade-related reason (e.g.,
outsourcing) are ineligible for TAA. Several bills in the 110th Congress (S. 1848, H.R.
910, H.R. 3589, H.R. 3920) would expand TAA to include service workers and public
sector employees. The available data indicates that the number of displaced
manufacturing workers in offshorable occupations from 2003 to 2005 (489,000) roughly
equals the number of TAA-certified manufacturing workers over the same period
(450,000). There were 840,000 workers displaced from offshorable nonmanufacturing
occupations from 2003 to 2005, suggesting that the pool of TAA-eligible workers could
have increased by over 170% if service workers had been eligible for TAA. In January
2006, nearly three times as many employed nonmanufacturing workers were in
offshorable occupations (20.7 million) than employed manufacturing workers in
offshorable occupations (7.7 million), suggesting a large increase in the pool of
potentially eligible TAA workers.
______________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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