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

[David Hardy]

Hope is better than, and preferable to despair.  Which many of us have had
to struggle with, and yes, some of us had to train our Mexican, Indian and
Slovak replacements.  Or lose benefits and being able to file unemployment
claims.  It's almost a gigantic middle finger held up to us and/or a wet
slap in the face to go through this.

Interesting that they're gonna use RICO for this, though.  Sure, the top
management knew what it was doing.  Gotta keep their country club and yacht
berth fees up to date.  But there I go again, being cynical.

I sincerely hope it's not just Disney that gets sued, however;  plenty of
other corporate malefactors and government enablers.

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 5:28 PM, Greg Kettmann <greg at kettmann.com> wrote:

> 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 the laid
> 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>
> 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>
>> 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>
>>> http://insight.ieeeusa.org/insight/content/policy/255071
>>>
>>> Bill
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