Dear Andy,
England has a proud history of building successful businesses, skilled workforces and world-class industries. Yet too often, profitable companies serving customers in England are moving jobs overseas or being acquired by foreign business owners without any meaningful public debate about the long-term impact on employment.
The Workers of England Union believes that supporting economic growth should also mean protecting the people whose skills and hard work create that success.
We are therefore asking you to openly support two straightforward principles.
First, where companies benefit from customers in England, public contracts or taxpayer support, there should be a stronger incentive that they invest in employment in England. If they do not then the British government will implement financial penalties against those companies
Second, we believe the Government should introduce an Employment Transparency requirement for larger employers. Companies should publish annually how many jobs have been transferred overseas, where those jobs have gone, the business functions affected, and whether they continue to receive government grants or public contracts.
This is not about opposing international trade or overseas investment. It is about ensuring transparency, accountability and fairness for workers whose livelihoods are affected by decisions that are often hidden from public view.
England cannot develop an effective industrial strategy if it does not even measure the scale of jobs leaving the country. The first step is to get accurate information of how many jobs are actually being outsourced.
We invite you to support greater transparency and policies that reward businesses investing in workers, skills and communities across England.
Yours sincerely,
Stephen Morris
General Secretary
Workers of England Union
Key Takeaways
- Mitigating Job Offshoring: The open letter details concerns over profitable corporations extracting value from English consumers while moving operational roles abroad without public accountability.
- Enforcing Financial Penalties: The union urges regulatory policies that penalize companies using domestic public contracts or taxpayer grants if they fail to invest in local employment infrastructure.
- Mandatory Transparency Tracking: A core principle calls for large employers to publish explicit yearly disclosures tracking total jobs moved overseas, operational sectors hit, and their global destinations.
- Measuring Outsourcing Impact: Securing empirical metrics on offshored positions is presented as a fundamental prerequisite for building a stable, long-term industrial strategy across England.
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