Posted on 02/10/2016 9:36:21 AM PST by ConservingFreedom
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) is calling for a Justice Department investigation into allegations that a northeastern utility company fired hundreds of workers and forced them to train their less expensive foreign replacements.
In a story that has become more common, Eversource Energy has been accused of contracting with outsourcing firms to import lower-paid, foreign workers on H-1B visas to replace their American information technology staff. In the process, the 200 workers who lost their jobs were allegedly made to train their replacements and remain silent about the matter.
"I am greatly concerned about whether Eversource has violated current law," Blumenthal wrote in a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch last week. "In light of these highly suspicious actions, I urge the Justice Department to use all necessary resources to investigate Eversource's conduct with regard to these workers and determine whether the company has abused any of the nonimmigrant worker visa programs, relevant employment laws, or other rules or standards governing its behavior."
In addition to pressing the Justice Department for an investigation, Blumenthal also expressed his "outrage" to Eversource CEO Thomas May and called on the company to offer "your former employees and the people of Connecticut a full accounting of these events."
"According to a news report, which Eversource has not appeared to deny, your treatment of roughly 200 American IT workers in Connecticut and Massachusetts was shocking," Blumenthal wrote in a letter to May.
"This report indicated that in the process of laying off these employees and replacing them with cheaper foreign workers who entered the US through nonimmigrant worker visa programs, you also forced them to sign non-disparagement clauses and even train their own replacements as a condition of receiving severance pay," he added.
Blumenthal is the latest in a string of bipartisan calls to investigate [...]
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This crap needs to stop yesterday!
Our political system is apparently designed to allow those people to get away with it.
America basically has two corrupt political Parties. One wants to import the world and other other wants to export our jobs. One works for global corporations that want our sovereignty destroyed, and the other wants Americans poorer and dependent on their political Party hacks. Neither Party serves the middle and working class of America.
I’m no Blumenthal fan but at least he is on the right track here. Why are allowing politicians and corporations to import people so taxpayers must pay unemployment and welfare to Americans. We need the immigration pipeline closed on all avenues until we have an affluent middle class nation that must take care of its own first.
Add me to the H1B Ping list please.
Expect the FRee traders here to show up and tell you that this is a good thing. Best value for your payroll dollars and all of that.
Eliminating the minimum wage, banning unions, and open (one-way) borders to workers is what rhe FRee traders are all about. Those three points are also the law down in mexico.
Warning... you get what you pay for
I have made a nice living fixing software created by the cheap foreign labor workers
The "minimum wage" is a leftist fiction - the real minimum wage is always zero, and "minimum wage" laws ensure that more people get a wage of zero.
Free Trade and unlimited immigration are different animals.
I’m a Free Trader. Nobody should be able to tell me with whom I can buy and sell on pain of excess taxation.
But the humans can stay in their own countries. If they want to come here, they can get in the very long line. H1Bs should be ELIMINATED.
Meanwhile, some beancounter got a bonus for "saving" money by using that "cheap" labor.
I know the guy is not popular here at FR but Jessie Ventura said the same thing in his book Democrips and Rebloodlicans on how we have a corrupt political system in the U.S., a system of legalized back door bribery from the hands of wall street and certain elites and its the truth, both parties do not give a damn about us really.
Love the title!
Amen!
http://www.amazon.com/DemoCRIPS-ReBLOODlicans-More-Gangs-Government/dp/162087587X
Again you may not like the guy but he makes a point in this book, no wonder folks like trump who are outsiders are getting a lot of support, everyone is so sick and tired of the BS that is going on.
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I get sick of all the free traders want competition in everything but competing for labor. They always say they can not get Americans for certain jobs. What a lie. You can hire an American for almost any job as long as the pay is right. If you have watched Deadliest Catch, you know that has to be one of the worst jobs ever and they have people travel thousands of miles to do it, because the pay is right.
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