Public university lays off 79 IT workers after they train outsourced replacements
Union says it's the first time a public university has embraced IT outsourcing.
Joe Mullin - 3/2/2017, 8:57 AM
Enlarge / Laid-off unionized IT workers at the University of California's San Francisco campus protested and spoke to the media on their last day of work.
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At the University of California's San Francisco campus, 79 IT employees lost their jobs this week, some of them after explaining to their replacements at Indian outsourcing firm HCL how to do their jobs.
The union representing the employees, University Professional and Technical Employees CWA Local 9119, says it's the first time a public university has offshored American IT jobs.
In a statement sent yesterday, UPTE-CWA says the layoffs could spread, since the HCL contract can be utilized by any of the 10 campuses in the University of California system, the nation's largest public university. "US taxes should be used to create jobs in the US, not in other countries," said Kurt Ho, a systems administrator who was quoted in the union's press release. Ho was required to train his replacement as a condition of getting his severance pay.
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