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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: 2) by Snotnose on Sunday April 12 2015, @01:40AM
and none of them did me a lick of good. When I was 16 ('74) I worked at a Fed Mart car wash and had to join the union. I made minimum wage, yet had to pay union dues. When I was 18 I worked for Buck Knives. Again, I was making minimum wage and paying union dues. At 19 I was a welder and, you guessed it, had to join a union. I was making something like $0.50 over minimum wage, but my union dues easily wiped that out.
After that I became an electronics tech, then a software engineer, and have no love lost for unions.
CSB. At Buck Knives we were told that if we dropped something and it rolled under a machine we had to call a special someone to retrieve it. As I worked the night shift that meant calling a union rep, rep called some dude at home, some dude at home drove to the shop and retrieved the object while making double time. Prolly an hour or more. Don't tell anyone, but whenever I dropped something and it rolled under the machine I got down on my knees and manually got it. While furtively looking around to ensure I wasn't caught and fired, of course.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2015, @04:09AM
So, your problem with unions is that they made concessions to the employers such that unskilled entry level employees didn't cost them extra, but you were too young to use the health insurance and you didn't stick around to benefit from the job security and the higher pay of more senior positions.
What did you expect, fairy dust?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday April 13 2015, @12:33AM