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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2015, @01:32PM
The degree asserts that person A has a certain level of understanding and familiarity with their area of study.
It really doesn't, in more cases than you would think possible. I'm not sure how or why a lot of these people are allowed to get degrees, but it's as if they just mindlessly did the assignments, failed to understand anything, and somehow got a degree in the end. They have no real drive, because I guess they expected the college/university to spoonfeed them, and the results are predictable.
Why don't you look at their code or have them do a live challenge during the interview.
My company does this. And strangely enough, not only do most people who don't have a degree get eliminated, but most people who do have a degree also get eliminated.