Clinton: It's 'Heartbreaking' When IT Workers Must Train H-1B Replacements (computerworld.com)

dcblogs writes: Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, on Monday criticized the replacement of U.S. IT workers with foreign labor but stopped short of offering a plan to fix it. In a videotaped interview with Vox, Clinton appears empathetic and sympathetic to IT workers who have trained their foreign replacements as a condition of severance. She mentioned IT layoffs at Disney, specifically. "The many stories of people training their replacements from some foreign country are heartbreaking, and it is obviously a cost-cutting measure to be able to pay people less than what you would pay an American worker," said Clinton in the interview. Keith Barrett, a former IT worker Disney who was among those replaced by contractors, was not happy with Clinton's comments."She starts off as if she understands the problem, but then dismisses it as collateral damage not of significant volume to address, and blends in the problem of illegal immigrant labor, which is mostly working in unskilled labor," said Barrett.

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What a fucking liar

[Anonymous Coward]

Its heartbreaking she's not in jail right now. Average Joe would have a life sentence for what she got away with.

At least we're getting lip service

[rsilvergun]

It's a step up from the last 20 years. Said it before, I'll say it again, it took Ron Reagan and Karl Rove 40 years to get us in this mess, it'll take longer than one election cycle to fix it.