Southern California Edison (SCE) IT Workers Being Replaced Left And Right By H-1B Visa Holders
By V. Saxena, February 5, 2015.
Information technology employees at Southern California Edison (SCE) are slowly but surely being laid off and replaced by H-1B visa holders from India, reports Computer World:
The IT organization’s “transition effort” is expected to result in about 400 layoffs, with “another 100 or so employees leaving voluntarily,” SCE said in a statement. The “transition,” which began in August, will be completed by the end of March, the company said.
“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.”
According to employees at SCE, the H-1B holders were “supposed to be [used] for projects and jobs that American workers could not fill.” But instead SCE is using the H-1B visa holders, many who hold only a few years of experience, to effectively replace its already highly skilled staff.
So what is SCE’s excuse for this malarkey? It proudly touts how outsourcing will permit it to implement “enhancements that will deliver faster and more efficient tools sand applications that customers rely on.” It also claims that outsourcing will help it match the efforts of those “top U.S. companies that SCE benchmarks against.”
In translation, they’re saying that everybody else is outsourcing, so why can’t we!?
*cough* Because of PATRIOTISM *cough*
Added information from Breitbart via the Daily Caller reveals that “fewer Americans born in the U.S. have jobs today than were employed to November 2007.” Furthermore, close to 50 percent of all recovered jobs have gone to foreign-born workers.
So what do you think about this? Better yet, do you think that we should consider slowing or even shutting down the federal H-1B program until our economy and jobs numbers improve?
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