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Senators will Listen to Tech Union Members about H-1B

posted by cmn32480 on Saturday April 11 2015, @09:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the my-senator-stays-bought dept.

edinlinux writes:

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) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2015, @09:11PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2015, @09:11PM (#169413)

    That's the problem with racists. Those fuckers are always hanging around looking for a reasonable discussion to use as a starting off point for their bullshit. They want to steal the legitimacy of actual problems to help them sell their racist bullshit.

    Well, that in itself is bad enough. But what really caused the bile to rise up into my throat was that some idiot(s) actually scored the comment as "insightful". I mean, what the hell!