Posted on 06/03/2015 8:32:49 AM PDT by Theoria
The employees who kept the data systems humming in the vast Walt Disney fantasy fief did not suspect trouble when they were suddenly summoned to meetings with their boss.
While families rode the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train and searched for Nemo on clamobiles in the theme parks, these workers monitored computers in industrial buildings nearby, making sure millions of Walt Disney World ticket sales, store purchases and hotel reservations went through without a hitch. Some were performing so well that they thought they had been called in for bonuses.
Instead, about 250 Disney employees were told in late October that they would be laid off. Many of their jobs were transferred to immigrants on temporary visas for highly skilled technical workers, who were brought in by an outsourcing firm based in India. Over the next three months, some Disney employees were required to train their replacements to do the jobs they had lost.
“I just couldn’t believe they could fly people in to sit at our desks and take over our jobs exactly,” said one former worker, an American in his 40s who remains unemployed since his last day at Disney on Jan. 30. “It was so humiliating to train somebody else to take over your job. I still can’t grasp it.”
The layoffs at Disney and at other companies, including the Southern California Edison power utility, are raising new questions about how businesses and outsourcing companies are using the temporary visas, known as H-1B, to place immigrants in technology jobs in the United States. These visas are at the center of a fierce debate in Congress over whether they complement American workers or displace them.
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Do they support the Jebster Arbusto?
At BellTel they would put “techs” right out of school with1 year service with us telecom techs that took 15 years to learn and get where we were and tell us to train them...Most of us told the newbies”pay attention and pick it up the way I did cause i aint teaching you squat”
Disney is not the only company said to have done this.
Los Angeles DWP as well has been reported to have done this.
It seems illegal and not compliant with H1B policy.
I am wondering why class action lawyers are not involved.
Shrug. I suspect Sen. Cruz could do well from them on his H1B positions.
I don’t understand all the ins and outs of these H1B visas.
But, have always wondered why they even exist.
My thinking is — naturally, Americans would be hired for jobs here in America. And if there are shortages in some categories, then we should be training our own people to fill these jobs, not importing immigrants. I don’t understand how it’s legal to import immigrants to do any job in America.
Then again, I admit I don’t understand all the ins and outs. But this story sounds to me very fishy. It sounds to me like this should be illegal, if it isn’t illegal, to terminate American workers and import people from other countries to do the same job. Clearly this is not a case of a shortage of skilled people, because they already had skilled Americans doing the jobs before.
Or as I tell them, “I will tell you everything you know, not everything I know.”
Those who worship the god of amoral capitalism can explain why these job replacements are a good thing.
Walt Disney Chief Executive Robert Iger’s compensation shot up 35% last fiscal year, to a total of $46.5 million
'But one agency, the U.S. Department of Labor, wrote back last week and told the lawmakers that large H-1B using firms "are not prohibited from displacing U.S. workers" as long as they meet certain conditions, such as paying each H-1B worker at least $60,000 a year.'
$60K!!!.....
Unless your IT job involves implementing new technology and involves organizational change and communication to management, it can easily be taken over by offshore resources.
The outgoing should be offered to keep their jobs at lower salary, if they were to remain onsite, and probably were offered.
They continue the lie that Americans “do not have the skills” that the new people do. What they really mean is that they don’t have to pay the American worker the same as someone on a revocable visa.
VIDEO: Sen. Cruz Ammendment to Immigration Legislation to Increase H-1B Visas
Not a typo. He did speak in favor of increasing the flow of "temporary" alien workers into our homeland. (And by increase, he means increase five-fold.)
I’d wonder if Disney intends to evolve its stuff any further.
Ticket prices have been getting ridiculous and cost cutting moves are one way to react to the pushback about that.
He’s probably going to get some earfuls.
I wouldn’t go there now if you paid me.
Unless your IT job involves implementing new technology and involves organizational change and communication to management, it can easily be taken over by offshore resources.
These jobs weren’t/aren’t being sent offshore.....the *offshore* workers are being brought HERE!
Not only are they receiving salaries (albeit perhaps lower), they’re likely receiving additional *benefits*, compliments of you and I.
Walt Disney Chief Executive Robert Iger’s compensation shot up 35% last fiscal year, to a total of $46.5 million
Good to see that things are improving on the bottom line. /s
(Now we know the reason for the cheap labor. Disney - and others - get to cut salaries, while the US taxpayer gets to supplement these new imports’ living standards -— EBT, 0bola*Care*, housing, loans, etc, etc)
The American worker is not important to the Democrat Party. The TAXES from the American worker are important to the Democrat Party.
Because Disney did not fire the employees and replace them with H-1Bs. Disney fired the employees and outsourced their IT functions to an independent vendor...who then hired a bunch of H-1Bs. The first would have been illegal, the second is looked upon as a "sound business decision that maximizes shareholder wealth."
At the end of the day one has to wonder just how good that information turnover was. If I were in that position I think there are a lot of things I would forget to mention to my replacement. Or some mistakes I would include by accident.
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