For decades, US-based corporations have moved jobs overseas in search of cheaper labor, weaker regulations, and higher margins. This is all while continuing to profit from American consumers, American infrastructure, and American tax incentives. This practice has hollowed out entire industries, displaced millions of workers, and left communities across the country to absorb the economic fallout.

Now, that same playbook is accelerating. Companies that have already outsourced significant portions of their workforce are using AI to cut even deeper, reducing headcount further under the banner of "efficiency," while reporting record profits and executive compensation. Workers are being squeezed from both directions at once: first by offshoring, now by automation, with little transparency and no meaningful accountability to the public.

This is not simply a byproduct of a competitive global economy. It is a business model that privatizes the gains of cost-cutting while socializing the costs. Lost jobs, shrinking local tax bases, disrupted communities, and a widening gap between corporate profitability and worker stability. There are currently no meaningful standards requiring companies to demonstrate that outsourcing serves the interests of the country and workforce they operate within. The result is a growing concentration of wealth at the top, with little obligation for companies to reinvest in the people and places that made their success possible.

We call on the federal government to:

Conduct a formal review of the scale and impact of outsourcing by US-based companies, including how it intersects with AI-driven workforce reductions.

Establish transparency requirements so companies must disclose when and why jobs are being outsourced or automated, and the resulting impact on US employment.

Explore policy safeguards: such as tax incentive reforms, outsourcing thresholds, or reinvestment requirements  that ensure companies benefiting from US markets, infrastructure, and labor also contribute to the stability of the US workforce.

Ensure worker protections keep pace with technological change, so displaced employees aren't left behind without recourse or support. American workers built the foundation these companies profit from. It's time to ask whether outsourcing, especially when paired with AI-driven layoffs, is being pursued responsibly, or simply to maximize shareholder returns at the public's expense. We deserve a government that asks that question and acts on the answer.

This petition calls for review and oversight, not a ban on global business, with the goal of ensuring outsourcing decisions are transparent, accountable, and balanced against the wellbeing of American workers and communities.