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Ex-Disney Worker, Attorney Warn of ‘Knowledge Transfer’ to Foreign Guest Workers
Breitbart ^ | 11/05/2015 | by Caroline May

Posted on 11/05/2015 12:14:57 PM PST by Rusty0604

Technology companies across the country are replacing American employees and “transferring” their knowledge to foreign guest workers, according to Sara Blackwell, an attorney for Disney employees replaced by foreign workers, and Leo Perrero, a former Disney employee.

“Right now all of the technology jobs, 90 percent of them are being filtered to H-1B visa holders here and then off-shoring to other countries. Knowledge transfer is what we’re doing,” Blackwell said during an interview with SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily.

Blackwell argued that technology is the future but that Americans are not the ones getting those coveted tech jobs.

“Twenty-six percent right now of IT college students in America are working in the IT field,” she said. “There is no job security. The pay rate has not changed since like 2000, it’s actually gone down for most people. But they’re off-shoring. We are knowledge transferring. The Americans are transferring our knowledge to these foreign workers. They’re taking it overseas.”

Specifically Blackwell pointed to what she said are abuses in the H-1B visas system:

The purpose of H-1B is if there is no qualified American then the H-1B person can come over and fill that position because we need them. Well, there are qualified Americans because they’re being fired, but guess what, if this keeps going there aren’t going to be any qualified Americans because we’re training all our knowledge — sending it overseas and we’re training all the H1B workers here and we’re not giving Americans the opportunity to make a decent wage or have a job so America has no future in technology, at this point.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: aliens; disney; espionage; h1b; immigrants; layoffs
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1 posted on 11/05/2015 12:14:57 PM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

The Disney worker was replaced by a contracted company which supposedly hired H1B workers. Of course, THAT doesn’t make for juicy writing, so generally is excluded from these stories.


2 posted on 11/05/2015 12:20:01 PM PST by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: kingu

Does that make it OK?


3 posted on 11/05/2015 12:26:00 PM PST by Rusty0604
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To: kingu

Same difference.


4 posted on 11/05/2015 12:26:17 PM PST by marron
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To: kingu

To everybody who has ever lost a job due to outsourcing to an outside company, it is a difficult thing to take, and I empathize with your feelings of betrayal. The lower bidder will generally win the contract, and even if you were an excellent performer in your job it was given to someone else. It has happened to me and to millions of others. I didn’t seek protectionist government policies but rather focused on increasing my own value in a competitive market. Where there is competition for the same resource someone will lose. It is possible to make yourself the resource that others compete to win, that’s where you put your self in the canary seat.


5 posted on 11/05/2015 12:32:27 PM PST by DaveyB (Live free or die!)
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To: Rusty0604
Wait a minute. They're "transferring" the knowledge from one group of people to another group of people?!

Issues of replacing U.S. workers with foreigners aside, I do not think knowledge works like that.

6 posted on 11/05/2015 12:32:28 PM PST by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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7 posted on 11/05/2015 12:32:52 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Rusty0604
If you look carefully at the H1B regulations, thee is an exclusion for employers of H1B visa holders who are paid at least $60K.

The exclusion? The employer can lie as much as they want to in their certifications about not replacing Americans and there is nothing the government can do about it. These H1B positions are "exempt" from the certification requirements, although certification is still required.This obfuscation was carefully handcrafted by Congressman paid off by industry.

The average pay for an experienced systems developer in Chicago is $102K.

Do the math.

8 posted on 11/05/2015 12:37:15 PM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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To: WayneS

The other group is taking that knowledge to their home country. The first group is left with the knowledge, but no where to use it.

So when they leave the workforce, it’s gone.


9 posted on 11/05/2015 12:38:55 PM PST by redgolum
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To: Rusty0604

Anyone know if we have the graduates to fill all the open positions to stop the visa infiltrators and knowledge theft? Not that it will happen within the year. Can those visas be revoked by the next prez?


10 posted on 11/05/2015 12:40:08 PM PST by huldah1776
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To: redgolum
So when they leave the workforce, it’s gone.

I sure am glad MY brain doesn't work like an etch-a-sketch...

11 posted on 11/05/2015 12:40:26 PM PST by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: pierrem15

So what you are saying is that we are carefully protecting the moderate to low paying jobs?


12 posted on 11/05/2015 12:40:40 PM PST by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton))
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To: Rusty0604

bfl


13 posted on 11/05/2015 12:41:15 PM PST by FourPeas ("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
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To: DaveyB

Well said, sir.


14 posted on 11/05/2015 12:42:21 PM PST by FourPeas ("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
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To: huldah1776
Can those visas be revoked by the next prez?

Are you hoping for another imperial president?

15 posted on 11/05/2015 12:46:02 PM PST by FourPeas ("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
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To: huldah1776

I don’t know but I remember a while back Biden was trying to calm black people about all the illegals they are letting in, and told them that they were going to train black women from the hood in IT.


16 posted on 11/05/2015 12:55:16 PM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

They come here for that. They take American ideas home.


17 posted on 11/05/2015 12:56:53 PM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: redgolum

Then when we call for tech support we get “Peggy” in Siberia.


18 posted on 11/05/2015 12:56:59 PM PST by Rusty0604
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To: DaveyB
Indeed, this was the core technology group at Disney World, which lost piece after piece of their area of responsibility due to constant incompetence. You can go back and read over thousands of customer complaints on Yelp and Trip Advisor for the bungled rollouts of resort (and park) WIFI, doors that stopped working (RFI chipped access keys), and on cast forums where in some cases, resort security had to rely on personal cell phones for weeks as the technology group tried to get communications back on.

Initially, this outside company was hired by merchandising to handle wireless transactions for shops and kiosks. They bid on and won taking over the back stage systems for the hotels, and have slowly taken over every responsibility from the in house group - which still exists, but is limited now to development tasks which will be deployed by an outside company.

I don't entirely blame the workers - management constantly chose price over quality when it came to hardware - cheap routers in rooms were the biggest issue, second came old wiring which they refused to replace as it would cost too much. All of these needed upgrades were completed within days of the new company taking over and complaints dropped to near zero.

So yes, you make yourself needed, you provide quality work, you've got little to worry about from outsourced competition. If you rely upon your union position to guarantee you a job for life, no matter if the job is getting done or not, you're likely going to get outsourced and lose that job. In the end it is simple economics.

19 posted on 11/05/2015 1:00:06 PM PST by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: DaveyB

“I didn’t seek protectionist government policies but rather focused on increasing my own value in a competitive market.”

It’s “protectionist” to ask that government enforce the existing laws and punish people who are criminally abusing the system???


20 posted on 11/05/2015 1:09:53 PM PST by Boogieman
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