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posted by cmn32480 on Saturday April 11 2015, @09:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the my-senator-stays-bought dept.

From an article in Computerworld:

Ten U.S. senators, representing the political spectrum, are seeking a federal investigation into displacement of IT workers by H-1B-using contractors.

They are asking the U.S. Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security and the Labor Department to investigate the use of the H-1B program "to replace large numbers of American workers" at Southern California Edison (SCE) and other employers.

Rather than all of us just griping on Soylent and 'that other site' about H-1B tech workers flooding in while there are plenty of Americans looking for work, these IT workers had a union, and got the attention of 10 senators to look into this issue. Southern California Edison laid off a bunch of American IT workers to replace them with H-1B Indians, and their union (since they are a utility, they happened to have had one), came to the rescue with a huge media campaign and now investigations by US Senators.

 
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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by g2 In The Desert on Saturday April 11 2015, @10:03PM

    by g2 In The Desert (3773) on Saturday April 11 2015, @10:03PM (#169100)
    I think it's great that the Senators are going to look at a policy that seems increasingly anti - US Worker.

    But the troubling part is that they were complicit in this activity as it blossomed over the last ten to fifteen years. It shouldn't take a union, a special interest group or a political action committee to get these... ummm... Honerable men and women, to do the job we sent them to Washington to do.
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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 11 2015, @11:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 11 2015, @11:38PM (#169142)

    Elizabeth Warren explained how this works on a recent episode the daily show.

    She laid out a sophisticated understanding of the real way power and money intersect. It's not primarily about quid pro quo cash for favors. It's about whose voices get heard and what issues end up on the agenda. "The wind only blows from one direction," Warren said. "It only blows from the direction of those who have money." Yes, campaign contributions matter. But big interests have "invested in other ways," too. They've invested in paying attention to what happens and to having their agents show up constantly and make noise. Consequently, the concerns of the rich and powerful are present in "every rule that's written, in every conversation, in every discussion."

    -- Elizabeth Warren explains the real way corruption in Washington works [vox.com]

    It isn't about buying laws, its about buying access. That is the self-deception that congress has been using for at least a couple of decades (when I first heard the above explanation from some other speaker). They feel that as long as they don't take a bag-o-cash in exchange for a favor, then they are morally and ethically in the clear. Nevermind that nobody without a bag of cash even has a chance of getting a word in edgewise. Its pay to play, but anyone who can afford pay gets a fair shot.