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.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 11 2015, @11:42PM
Who the hell scored this "Insightful"?!? Your personal sock puppet? Can you tell me one company in America doing job interviews in Hindi? Just one? I want you to be specific. Name some names. Otherwise I am going to dismiss this as just so much xenophobic garbage.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 11 2015, @11:47PM
That's the problem with racists. Those fuckers are always hanging around looking for a reasonable discussion to use as a starting off point for their bullshit. They want to steal the legitimacy of actual problems to help them sell their racist bullshit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 11 2015, @11:55PM
Hindi isn't a race. It's a language, for crying out loud. I know Asians and whites who speak it fluently.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2015, @03:38AM
I wonder if there is a correlation between aspergers and stupid fucker racism.
Because there is always some dumbass who shows up and proclaims oh, we couldn't possibly be talking about race because no one literally named a race. The fact that context makes it abundantly clear that we are taking about race is never acknowledged and from what I understand aspergers makes it really hard for a person to understand context.
So asshole or just handicapped? Which is at AC?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2015, @09:11PM
Well, that in itself is bad enough. But what really caused the bile to rise up into my throat was that some idiot(s) actually scored the comment as "insightful". I mean, what the hell!