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Shaman
2015 Nov 24, 7:54pm
They should sue. Like Disney doesn't make enough money, it has to outsource tech jobs and force IT workers to train their Chindian replacements. I hope they win a billion dollars and the case sets a precedent that keeps the wealthy owner assholes from misusing this program again. And I hope Congress acts to repeal it. There is almost no legitimate reason why you'd need to hire a guy from another country to replace a guy here.
Tenpoundbass
2015 Nov 25, 8:16am
Disney will be shuttering doors with in the next 10 years anyway.
At this point they are hell bent on just imploding. They offer no family entertainment value anymore. Now their productions are an entry into liberal endocrination.
I'm sure before we've seen the last of Disney some executive moron will have made the decision for a Transgender Pochantus. They keep raising the price of their park admissions.
Plus you have to pay damn near $20 to park there. Just how in the hell do they plan on keeping a demand for their parks. IF they are now in the PSA agenda advert business instead of the Entertainment business.
I can't possibly see how they will get the American asses out to their parks to stand in line for 2 to 3 hours to only end up riding 3 good rides tops they whole day. While they are turning out the shit that they keep producing. Who in the hell want's to ride the Gender equality ride? Now at the sametime, they are shitting all over the American worker.
MisdemeanorRebel
2015 Dec 17, 6:19pm
Fuck Greenspan's productivity. Productivity has skyrocketed over the past two decades. What hasn't risen is wages.
1945-1975: Ever increasing wages was the primarily discussed method of how to grow the economy.
Strategist
2015 Dec 17, 6:35pm
Expanding H-1B Visa Program For Skilled Workers Could Grow US Economy, Alan Greenspan Says. Expanding the H-1B visa program, which helps special- or high-skill workers who graduate from college in the United States, would be a crucial first step, said Greenspan.
Greenspan is right on. If you don't let high skilled labor come to the USA, businesses will move to where the high skilled labor is in other countries. We end up losing all the other jobs like secretaries, accountants, plumbers etc., which are necessary to keep a company going. We also lose the taxes that high skilled labor would pay.
We live in a small world that is getting smaller. We can either go into a state of denial, or smell the coffee and start competing and producing the high skilled people we need.
Strategist
2015 Dec 17, 6:46pm
There is almost no legitimate reason why you'd need to hire a guy from another country to replace a guy here.
Maybe because the guy from the other country actually shows up to work and WORKS, while the guy from here shows up to work hungover.
A true Capitalist will never discriminate.
The bottom line is all that counts, and if you cannot compete you are out. Even if you happen to be the CEO's mom.
At least 23 former Disney IT workers have filed complaints with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) over the loss of their jobs to foreign replacements. This federal filing is a first step to filing a lawsuit alleging discrimination.
These employees are arguing that they are victims of national origin discrimination, a complaint increasingly raised by U.S. workers who have lost their jobs to foreign workers on H-1B and other temporary visas.
Sara Blackwell, the Florida attorney representing the workers, says the deadline for Disney employees terminated on Jan. 30 for filing EEOC actions is Thursday.
These employees are making discrimination claims with the EEO under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, citing in part "hostile treatment in forcing the Americans to train their replacements." The claims include discrimination based on national origin and age.
A Disney spokeswoman, Jacquee Wahler, in an email response to the EEOC claims, said: "We comply with all applicable employment laws. We are expanding our IT department and adding more jobs for U.S. IT workers."
Disney's layoff last January followed agreements with IT services contractors that use foreign labor, mostly from India. Some former Disney workers have begun to go public over the displacement process.
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3007933/it-careers/two-dozen-disney-it-workers-prepare-to-sue-over-foreign-replacements.html