This is an issue that we all take seriously on this site. Just thought you should know about my industry, and what's been happening.
I work in films, making the visual effects you see on the screen. I've been doing this for 16 years - it's good pay, very demanding hours and you need a great deal of high-tech knowledge and training. We work in dark rooms for 10, 12 hours at a time, sometimes working over weekends for months on end. We have a great love of films and the art.
Sony Pictures Imageworks, one of our major employers, announced last year they would be taking all our jobs (200+) and moving them to Vancouver. This is because Canada is offering such large subsidies no company in the states can compete. Many were forced to leave or move. Nobody got a choice about staying in the states. To date they are the latest, and largest, to ship our high-paying, high-tech jobs overseas. Having seen first hand our jobs go from long-term staff positions with good benefits, to short-term, incredibly stressful jobs where you get kicked to the curb once the film is done, or no work at all unless you choose to leave the country, I cannot tell you how it has caused our industry and my coworkers to suffer. I'm sure others, in other industries suffering the same fate, can relate. Everyone loses except the studios. Here is one attempt to start fighting back.
http://www.indiegogo.com/...