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The British insurance firm Royal & Sun Alliance has announced plans to shift 1,100 jobs over the next two years from the United Kingdom to India in a move estimated to save the company more than $18 million a year. Last month, insurer Norwich Union said it was moving 950 jobs to India and Sri Lanka, and that it intended to have 7,000 staff working in India by 2007. This has fueled British labor unions? concerns about the unprecedented threat to UK jobs and the economy that offshoring presents.