Source: Economic Times, February 3, 2009

As global tech firms IBM, Microsoft and EDS-HP seek to trim payroll by slashing jobs in the US and Europe to cope with a worsening economic slump, information technology workers and unions are taking a more militant stance on the sensitive issue of offshoring.

These unions or employee associations are aggressively questioning plans to send more work to cheaper locations like India and are pushing for more jobs in the US.