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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: 4, Insightful) by Thexalon on Sunday April 12 2015, @04:16AM
First off, most unions don't do that. They aren't dumb, and usually want more freedom for their members at the expense of management.
Second, you might want to notice that all of the scheduling scenarios you're talking about could be denied by the boss at least as easily as by the union.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.