It looks like our lobbying is working! Public opinion is forcing Disney to back down on its plans to replace Americans with immigrant labor from Asia.
BACK STORY: H-1B visas are the ones that outsourcing firms use to bring immigrants, mainly from India, for technology work. The visas are meant for foreigners with specialized skills to fill clearly defined positions when Americans with those skills are not available. In the visa applications the employers, usually large tech companies, must confirm that no American workers will be displaced.
However, in late May when around 35 technology employees at Disney/ABC Television in New York and Burbank, Calif., were told they were being laid off, and that during their final weeks they would have to suffer the ignominy of training their immigrant replacements who were being brought in by an outsourcing company (including Cognizant) to do their jobs.
MINUTEMAN PROJECT: Like many other infuriated groups The Minuteman Project made a big noise about this manipulation of power — and the law. With a few days the Mouse had backed down. The tech workers from India vanished and the Americans were told they could keep their jobs.
The initial dramatic success of the backlash affected technology employees. It remained unclear yesterday whether it was part of a greater reversal, as Disney’s top executives refused to talk about it. Cognizant, the global outsourcing company that Disney was using has also gone dark.
Run them out of our town. No food or housing and no free medical. They are like cockroaches. Until you destroy their food sours and housing they will breed and suck the life out of surrounding living things.
A nation without BORDERS is NO LONGER a nation, and the RINOs apparently APPROVE of this! It’s way past time to put an END to career politicians, Can you say TERM LIMITS???
Why blame them ?Disney is the problem ,so boycott them .Don’t buy anything with DISNEY on it.Out sourcing will not stop until we start boycotting the companies that are hiring them so they can get cheaper labor.
As much as this whole outsourcing of predominantly tech jobs to India bothers the heck out of me, Disney is just following a practice initiated by thousands of other companies in America. This outsourcing crap has been going on for dozens of years! The “indignity” of being offered a bonus to stay on and train your replacement is also nothing new. That has been practiced in American companies since the 80’s. I don’t like it one bit, but the reality of life in a so-called “free” market places competition for such jobs in an international marketplace. Want to compete with someone who lives in India? Accept a poverty-level wage here in the States.