[ziravan]

1. Disney’s IT dept sucked. Big Time.
2. Disney replaced its IT dept by farming it out to a contractor that Disney was having IT success using.
3. That contractor, a huge area contractor, hired H1B employees to meet its growing demand.
4. The local union spiked the media with stories that Disney was replacing American workers with foreign workers (an alternative and just as accurate spin: Disney was replacing incompetent workers with a company that was proving its competence and fixing the problems of the recently and deservedly fired and departed).
5. Big media stink.
6. Disney backtracks.

Disney didn’t hire the H1Bs, it needed to fire the old IT staff, and they responded to public opinion. Anything else is union drivel.

[papertyger]

I believe that’s what’s known as a “cutout.”

[american colleen]

Not necessarily disagreeing with you, but if the IT department sucked ‘Big Time’ - how was it they were good enough to train their replacements?

[DoodleDawg]

Disney didn’t hire the H1Bs, it needed to fire the old IT staff, and they responded to public opinion. Anything else is union drivel.

There's a lot of drivel all right. But I don't think it's from the union.