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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 11 2015, @11:22PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 11 2015, @11:22PM (#169133)

    > Unions can be useful but they can also start telling you at which hours you are allowed to work.

    Surprise! Tools don't make you a craftsman, but even a craftsman can't do much without tools.

    Good judgment is necessary in all human endeavours and anyone who tries to factor it out will eventually end up with bad results.