Sen. Blumenthal Demands Lifting of IT 'Gag' Order (computerworld.com)

dcblogs writes: U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the layoff and replacement of IT workers by foreign workers at a state energy utility. But he is also demanding that the utility, Eversource Energy, drop a particularly restrictive non-disparagement clause that laid off employees had to sign to receive their severance. This clause bars discussion "that would tend to disparage or discredit" the utility. [emphasis added] He wants the employees, who had to train foreign replacements, to be able to state "honestly what happened to them."

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Re:Time for unions!

[Feyshtey]

Why should anyone be required to lean on an union to litigate a pretty obvious violation of H1-B visa? Or to file suit for wrongful termination? Or half a dozen other legal arguments? There are realistically hundreds of thousands of layers in the US slavering over the payouts of a civil rights lawsuit like this. They dont need a union. They just need to suck up start researching their own rights and the legal avenues available to them. They don't need some union siphoning their paycheck and then doing nothing more than trying to increase the paycheck only to ensure higher dues payed them.