PROTECTING UNIONS FROM COMPETITION: Union campaigns to bring call centers back to US. “The Communications Workers of America (CWA) launched a political campaign on Tuesday in support of legislation that would pressure companies to locate their telephone call centers in the United States. . . . The bill, offered by Rep. Tim Bishop (D-N.Y.), would bar companies that offshore call centers from receiving federal grants and would require them to disclose the physical location of their center at the beginning of each call. The bill would also give callers the right to be transferred to a U.S. call center.”

I think that when Hollywood films movies in Canada that purport to be set in the United States, every scene shot in Toronto should have to have a subtitle saying “Not actually New York, but Toronto” or some such . . . .