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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, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 11 2015, @11:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 11 2015, @11:57PM (#169152)

    Why the fuck is the parent comment modded Offtopic? It's totally on-topic.

    The modding system here is pretty broken if a good, on-topic comment like that is modded Offtopic. Why the fuck isn't something being done to fix that bad modding? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2015, @06:59AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2015, @06:59AM (#169270)

    It's modded +3 now. What do? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯