Some of you may be interested in signing an H-1B related petition

[Greg Kettmann]

I'm sure many of us read Slashdot.  At any rate, perhaps there's hope 
from the legal system.


    Disney IT Workers Allege Conspiracy In Layoffs, File Lawsuits
    <http://politics.slashdot.org/story/16/01/26/0149230/disney-it-workers-allege-conspiracy-in-layoffs-file-lawsuits>

dcblogs <http://slashdot.org/%7Edcblogs>writes with the latest in 
thelaid off Disney IT worker saga 
<http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/11/24/0337209/disney-it-workers-prepare-to-sue-over-foreign-replacements>. 
According to ComputerWorld: "Disney IT workers laid off a year ago this 
month are now accusing the company and the outsourcing firms it hired of 
engaging in a 'conspiracy to displace U.S. workers 
<http://www.computerworld.com/article/3026332/it-outsourcing/disney-it-workers-allege-conspiracy-in-layoffs-file-lawsuits.html>.' 
The allegations are part of two lawsuits filed in federal court in 
Florida on Monday. Between 200 and 300 Disney IT workers were laid off 
in January 2015. Some of the workers had to train their foreign 
replacements — workers on H-1B visas — as a condition of severance. The 
lawsuits represent what may be a new approach in the attack on the use 
of H-1B workers to replace U.S. workers. They allege violations of the 
Federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), 
claiming that the nature of the employment of the H-1B workers was 
misrepresented, and that Disney and the contractors knew the ultimate 
intent was to replace U.S. workers with lower paid H-1B

On 1/26/2016 12:23 PM, Richard Kolb II wrote:
> I will sign that, I will also add that I am a SW Engineer with 16 
> years of experience, I've been laid off twice in that least few years, 
> both times my job being outsourced to India. I also think that we're 
> not going to get much traction, for the same reasons that David mentioned.
>
> On a side note, my father was also working for IBM around the time 
> they started outsourcing his job he took an early retirement.
>
> Rich
>
>
> Richard Kolb II
>
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 11:46 PM, David Hardy 
> <belovedbold357 at gmail.com <mailto:belovedbold357 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     The malice-aforethought intent, in my opinion, is to actually put
>     American citizens out of work;  I was laid off over two years ago
>     from IBM and our jobs were offshored to India and Slovakia. 
>     Unemployed ever since, other than occasional contract and temp
>     gigs, despite twenty years of solid IT experience across multiple
>     hw and sw platforms, most recently RHEL and CentOS.
>
>     And the government is evidently in bed with the corporations who
>     engage in this practice.  Asking them to investigate is like unto
>     asking the police to investigate one of their seemingly endless
>     brutality and/or civil rights violations.
>
>
>     "The petition is directed at U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch
>     and asks her to launch a formal investigation into the H-1B visa
>     program." - See more at:
>     http://insight.ieeeusa.org/insight/content/policy/255071#sthash.SWgEL8YT.dpuf
>
>     Somehow I don't feel confident that the AG's office will lift a
>     finger for us, other than the usual mealy-mouthed PR platitudes
>     and corporate-written bromides.
>
>     Meanwhile they keep telling us how hard it is to find qualified
>     American workers to do these incredibly complex and intricate jobs.
>
>     On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Bill Freeman <ke1g.nh at gmail.com
>     <mailto:ke1g.nh at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         IEEE has an article here about abuse of the H-1B visa, putting
>         citizens out of work.  It links to a petition asking the
>         government to investigate.
>
>         See the article here:
>         http://insight.ieeeusa.org/insight/content/policy/255071
>
>         Bill
>
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