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Southern California Edison (SCE) was known for good pay and benefits before it began laying off IT workers and replacing them with H-1B visa holders. Today, SCE is the latest Exhibit A in Congress of a company whose IT workers are displaced through the use of the H-1B visa.
"They are bringing in people with a couple of years' experience to replace us and then we have to train them," said one longtime IT worker. "It's demoralizing and in a way I kind of felt betrayed by the company. Not one of these jobs being filled by India was a job that an Edison employee wasn't already performing," he said.
SCE, Southern California's largest utility, has confirmed the layoffs and the hiring of Infosys, based in Bangalore, and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in Mumbai. They are two of the largest users of H-1B visas.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by hoochiecoochieman on Sunday February 15 2015, @01:13PM
Are you crazy? In which democratic society could there be no unions? Why shouldn't workers be able to get together and defend their common interests? I've never heard anyone defending that companies shouldn't organise to defend their common interests.
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Sunday February 15 2015, @02:22PM
I'm not saying that, I'm saying you can't effectively have both. Without tariffs and other protections, they will cause the exodus of anything that can be moved somewhere cheaper.
(Score: 2) by hoochiecoochieman on Sunday February 15 2015, @07:11PM
OK, dude. We're on the same side, I guess.
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Sunday February 15 2015, @08:01PM
Kind of. I am against unions to a degree in that here, bus drivers make more than nurses an software developers as they held the public hostage in the winter. Teachers are now making over 100K in many cases as well even though the market of *available teachers is about three times the size of the number of jobs. Supply and demand has to come into it, but again doesn't, again because they help the public hostage. I like the idea of the sort of 'unions' professional athletes have where a minimum of basic rights are protected and people can bargain to be paid what they're worth. The way they are now is not working.
(Score: 2) by hoochiecoochieman on Sunday February 15 2015, @11:16PM
That doesn't sound right. If teachers are making more than nurses and software developers, it's not their fault. Maybe nurses and software developers need to stop whining and start forming their own unions.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday February 16 2015, @06:45PM
Why shouldn't workers be able to get together and defend their common interests?
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
It's in the very first one....