Lawsuits Claim Disney Colluded to Replace U.S. Workers With Immigrants

The New York Times ^ | JAN. 25, 2016 | By JULIA PRESTON

[Hojczyk]

Even after Leo Perrero was laid off a year ago from his technology job at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla. — and spent his final months there training a temporary immigrant from India to do his work — he still hoped to find a new position in the vast entertainment company.

But Mr. Perrero discovered that despite his high performance ratings, he and most of the other 250 tech workers Disney dismissed would not be rehired for at least a year, and probably never.

Now he and Dena Moore, another American laid off by Disney at that time, have filed class-action lawsuits in federal court in Tampa against Disney and two global consulting companies, HCL and Cognizant, which brought in foreign workers who replaced them. They claim the companies colluded to break the law by using temporary H-1B visas to bring in immigrant workers, knowing that Americans would be displaced from their jobs.

“I don’t have to be angry or cause drama,” said Ms. Moore, 53, who had worked at Disney for 10 years. “But they are just doing things to save a buck, and it’s making Americans poor.

[Resolute Conservative]

I had no intention of visiting a Disney park when they embraced queers and started making PC movies. This just solidifies that decision.

[Hojczyk]

The lawsuits by Mr. Perrero and Ms. Moore are based on the rules for H-1B visas, which were designed by Congress to bring foreign workers with special skills into the country. Employers are required to declare to the Department of Labor that hiring foreigners on the visas “will not adversely affect the working conditions of U.S. workers similarly employed.”

“Was I negatively affected?” Ms. Moore asked. “Yeah, I was. I lost my job.”

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Sara Blackwell, a lawyer in Sarasota representing the former Disney employees, said the suits charged that the companies lied under oath when they said that no Americans would lose their jobs

[Pelham]

bttt

[PGR88]

Disney is America’s Ministry of Culture.

[FatherofFive]

I believe Disney is in trouble. The visa program is designed to help companies if certain skills are not available. By having the Americans train the foreigners, it proves this was not the case.

I don't see how Disney can win this case.

[central_va]

Disney will get a slap on the wrist and it will be business as usual.

[Scrambler Bob]

What is their problem?

Can’t get enough US Citizen mice at cheap rates?

[AngelesCrestHighway]

FU Disney! Overpriced anyway.

[Jane Austen]

Another big business that puts foreigners first.

[amihow]

Disney has done a lot of marxist type destruction of the family starting years ago with their films which feature real actors. Theme often: kids want to do something parents object to. Kids do anyway. Parents worried and even frantic. Kids have huge, great adventure in their act of disobedience. Kids come homes safe. Parents happy. No consequesnces to not honoring father andmother. Disney rich. Family denigrated.

[rottndog]

I don't see how Disney can win this case.

Exactly right....IF there truly is a shortage of tech workers, why would Disney lay off American tech workers that were already doing those jobs?

[SoCar]

Trump should get these guys on the campaign trail with him and highlight H1B visa abuse.

[longfellow]

Gee the queers had no problem when they came in from fashion ave and fired all the cartoonists.

[pierrem15]

The paid tools in the House and Senate who wrote the H1B visa laws added specific language barring the revocation of an H1B visa if the employer was found to have lied as long as the H1B visa holder is paid at least $67,000/year.

However, the corrupt dumbasses never added language to prevent the employer for being sued or jailed for lying on the H1B visa applications.

[Varda]

I don’t see why Cognizant is being sued. They specialize in outsourcing to India. Disney hired them knowing what they are.

So many American kids want to work for Disney/Pixar. It’s some sort of nutty dream job. I hope they see this story.

[HarleyLady27]

Yep that H1B Visa bill that all the ‘spineless sissies’ in the House and Senate voted on was really American wasn't it???

This is your ‘globalist’ candidates running for POTUS at work, and people are wondering why Americans are upset and angry??? No to hard to see, now is it....

[Scrambler Bob]

About 1955, my family was returning from OK vacation to WA, and stopping to visit relatives in CA.

Mom and Dad were going to take us to Disneyland. We showed up on Monday.

Closed.

Later, I did take my kids a couple of times about 25 years ago, the prices including for parking were robbery.

The place has no attraction for me now.

[NorthstarMom]

My kids have always known that Disney will not happen. Not only the cost, but their pro-sodomite actions. This is just another reason in the list.

Our big vacation was to the creation museum in KY a few years ago. Sort of our Disney-at the time, they were all excited to go back when the Ark project was finished. As some are now cynical teenagers, we will see how that goes.

[SaraJohnson]

Cruz is hot on H1B visas, too.

I would not doubt that Trump will keep the foreign worker replacement game going. As long as they get in legally to replace American workers. I doubt he knows (or cares) about the scam.