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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: 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