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Transcript from Lou
Dobbs Segment..
Violence and the threat of violence are also rising in the American
workplace. A new study finds the loss of millions of
American jobs, millions of them, to cheap foreign
labor markets is behind much of the rage. Bill
Tucker reports.
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BILL TUCKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Scenes
like this from a shooting at Jeep's Toledo, Ohio,
plant by a disgruntled employee earlier this year
are all too familiar. An angry employee unleashes
that wrath in the workplace.
Not every unhappy employee commits murder and
suicide, but there is an alarming increase in
violence in the workplace. A survey by more than 600
human resources and security executives found 82
percent reported an increase in workplace violence
in the last two years. The reasons are basic.
DOUG KANE, RISK CONTROL STRATEGIES: We've seen a lot
of companies being downsized over the last several
years. As a result of that, they're turning to
off-shoring and outsourcing a lot of their
activities. As a result of that, some of the
employees now are tasked with training their
replacements, which, again, creates somewhat of a
hostile work environment.
TUCKER: Fifty-eight percent of those responding to
the survey by Risk Control Strategies say employees
have threatened to assault or kill senior managers.
It's the uncertainty of the job place, compounded
with economic pressures, that often push employees
over the edge. The new bankruptcy bill which allows
wages to be garnished is expected to worsen the
problem.
LARRY CHAVEZ, CRITICAL INCIDENT ASSOCIATES: With the
downturn in the economy, and with the loss of jobs
on a relatively massive scale, it's not going to
take much more beyond that to have someone thinking
negative thoughts about their organization.
TUCKER: Bottom line for employees, they take their
work very personally, while their employers forget
they're people and treat them as a line item in the
budget.
(on camera): But a separate and soon to be released
survey show a decline in outsourcing trends found
that employee backlash is a major concern among
companies considering outsourcing. Eighty-eight
percent said they're more concerned about employee
backlash than they are about severance costs or
customer reaction.
Bill Tucker, CNN, New York. |
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