Outsourcing Impacts MetroAccess Riders

"...Dear Editor, In Lee Nichols' article about the outsourcing of jobs at Cap Metro, there was no mention..."

July 12, 2009 Postmarks

Point Austin: Saving the Animals

City considers outsourcing all animal adoption programs

"...The outsourcing is not a foregone conclusion. There was only a..."

Sept. 17, 2010 News Column by Michael King

Outsourced

When a Seattle man is transferred to India due to outsourcing, he overcomes his aversion and becomes the eventual poster boy for immersing, life-altering travel.

"...Mathur, Larry Pine and Matt Smith. You may remember “outsourcing” as the bugaboo of the 2004 presidential campaign. More..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Stop the Layoffs

UT group stage study-in to protest shared services plan

"...staging a study-in to protest the job eliminations and outsourcing recommended in a January university report, a plan they..."

Oct. 30, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

The Outsiders

Outsourcing Bond Work Is Expensive; Is It Necessary?

"...chair, Mel Waxler, says he remembers "considerable" discussion about outsourcing versus in-house management, but says the committee did not..."

Oct. 10, 1997 News Feature by Roseana Auten

Can't Ignore the Law and Ethics When It Comes to Animals

"...fine if the no-kill goal can be achieved without outsourcing” – but that’s not what he said last week..."

Sept. 22, 2010 Postmarks

The Hightower Report

Casualties of Bush's Contract Army; and Outsourcing America

"...OUTSOURCING AMERICA Maybe you've noticed that America's call-center jobs are..."

June 22, 2007 News Column by Jim Hightower

Point Austin: Hold That Bus!

New labor deal proposed for Cap Metro waits for willing riders

"...– a pro-labor policy that would end the agency's outsourcing that has undermined wages and threatened union jobs and..."

April 6, 2007 News Column by Michael King

The Hightower Report

Nanotechnology will rain gold on us just like, um, high tech did; and Colin Powell promises jobs … to India

"...that the Bushites would do nothing to stop the outsourcing of U.S. high tech jobs to India and, indeed,..."

May 21, 2004 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Mayor's Waterloo

Stopped in His Tracks

"...portion of Solid Waste Services are all candidates for "outsourcing." But that's only the tip of the iceberg, and..."

July 26, 1996 News Column by Alex de Marban

AISD Bus Maintenance Stays in District, Keeping Jobs Local

Keeping the green machines green

"...for everybody and this is a huge labor win. Outsourcing is not a solution, it's actually a problem, and..."

Oct. 28, 2022 News Feature by Madi Donham

The Hightower Report

Speculators and Our Food: E-I-E-I-O!; Airlines Outsourcing Our Safety and Jobs

"...and they should be banned from "owning structure." Airlines Outsourcing Our Safety and Jobs..."

Jan. 9, 2009 News Column by Jim Hightower

Thomas Frank's 21st Century Corruption Theory

A Q&A with the author of What's the Matter With Kansas? and The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule

"...the thing and run it for your constituents' benefit," outsourcing as much as possible in the process. I spoke..."

Aug. 15, 2008 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Mayor's Ex-Budget Chief Joins Prop K Team

Another strange bedfellow

"...costs, reducing personnel costs, increasing cost recovery, organizational restructuring, outsourcing operations, and increasing revenue."..."

Nov. 2, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

Man of Steel

This new Superman flies without a lot of emotional baggage, which is mostly a good thing though the character could stand a bit more dramatic heft.

"...pencils freshly shaved. You might wonder why Hollywood keeps outsourcing our national comic-book icons to British actors, but put..."

June 14, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

It's a Bad Idea

"...turn, create a school identity and culture. Rather than outsourcing our responsibility to better serve East Austin, the district..."

Jan. 31, 2012 Postmarks

The Hightower Report

Hello, Vietnam!; and Fee-Brained Airlines

"...moving to Vietnam, having built a facility there for outsourcing its software engineering work. Wouldn't it be nice, in..."

Dec. 10, 2010 News Column by Jim Hightower

Up in the Air

The director of Juno and Thank You for Smoking is back with another film that is perfectly in touch with the times.

"...to do the bidding of companies so accustomed to outsourcing they can't even fire their own employees. But professional..."

Dec. 18, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Hightower, Where Were You?

"...chain used its regularly employed housekeepers to train an outsourcing firm's employees and the resultant firing of the regular..."

Oct. 12, 2009 Postmarks

Workers Exploited

"...benefits or contract workers who get paid low wages. Outsourcing still costs about the same, just without having to..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Postmarks

The Hightower Report

Wall Street and Washington: Here We Go Again; and J.P. Morgan Creates Jobs With Bailout Money

"...merger gives the bank an opportunity to increase its outsourcing to India by 25%. The bank can get Indian..."

April 24, 2009 News Column by Jim Hightower

Naked City

"...Lee Leffingwell – who has striven to end the outsourcing of Capital Metro jobs by making all workers direct..."

June 8, 2007 News Feature

Cap Met Labor Update

Proposal to bring all employees in-house and end outsourcing at agency passes unanimously

"...Leffingwell's proposal to bring all employees in-house and end outsourcing at the agency passed unanimously this week. With a..."

March 23, 2007 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Naked City

"...area of intellectual property – intangibles with plenty of outsourcing and no specific goods sold – could be in..."

Nov. 24, 2006 News Feature

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...of the state's health and human services agencies and outsourcing the commission's human resources and payroll services. Under HB..."

Oct. 7, 2005 News Feature

Naked City

Health and human services "reorganization" could cost 7,400 jobs

"...Rep. Dawnna Dukes (D-Austin), the most vocal opponent to outsourcing in the House, told the Texas Public Employees Association..."

July 2, 2004 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...year, President Bush's top economic adviser said that offshore outsourcing was "a plus for the economy." The administration acted..."

June 4, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Wreckless Recs?

Garza's Affordability Strategy Slides Into Uselessness

"...Garza has essayed in the past -- things like outsourcing, cost-shifting, consolidating, and other euphemisms for cutbacks. So despite..."

Sept. 12, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The People Who Collect Austin's Trash Struggle in Extreme Heat

A/C issues continue at Austin Resource Recovery

"...during the summer," Fuentes told us. That might include outsourcing repair of A/C systems, or purchasing of the parts,..."

July 14, 2023 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Election Ticker: Of Recounts and Run-Offs

Endorsements, recounts, and money, money, money

"...of the vote. Both have been fierce critics of outsourcing inmates to jails outside of Hays County due to..."

Nov. 25, 2022 News Feature by the News Staff

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