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University of California IT Workers Replaced By Offshore Outsourcing Firm To File Discrimination Lawsuit (computerworld.com)
The IT workers from the University of California's San Francisco campus who were replaced by an offshore outsourcing firm late last year intend to file a lawsuit challenging their dismissal. "It will allege that the tech workers at the university's San Francisco campus were victims of age and national origin discrimination," reports Computerworld. From the report: The IT employees lost their jobs in February after the university hired India-based IT services firm HCL. Approximately 50 full-time university employees lost their jobs, but another 30 contractor positions were cut as well. "To take a workforce that is overwhelmingly over the age of 40 and replace them with folks who are mainly in their 20s -- early 20s, in fact -- we think is age discrimination," said the IT employees' attorney, Randall Strauss, of Gwilliam Ivary Chiosso Cavalli & Brewer. The national origin discrimination claim is the result of taking a workforce "that reflects the diversity of California" and is summarily let go and is "replaced with people who come from one particular part of the world," said Strauss. The lawsuit will be filed in Alameda County Superior Court.
H Fucking B1 should be eliminated.
There is no fucking way some dude from a country where the majority of people are shitting outside, next to their water well is more qualified than anyone in America.
H-B1 is just so hypocritical assholes in the SJW Silicon Valley businesses can save money while they bitch and moan about men now being able to shower in the women's locker room.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
Would some progressive care to explain why government employees like these should be protected from cheap, young, foreign labor, while at the same time other workers should be forced to compete with cheap, young, Mexican migrants?
I think by far rightists are far more hypocritical and self-contradictory. Liberals may be because they overthink, rightists are because they are stupid.
Says the bigot. Yup, anyone who doesn't think like you is stupid. Good job showing that you are considerate of other's views and opinions.
The same thing can be said of conservatism, or libertarianism, or any political philosophy for that matter. Adherence to a political philosophy as ones primary approach to life is inherently rooted in emotion rather than logic regardless of the philosophy in question.
Your singling out of liberalism as the one philosophy as the only one rooted in emotion indicates a clear conservative bias on your part.
Here's what happened in about 150 years under "conservative" US government policies:
Grew from small, isolated, breakaway country to the richest, most powerful country on the planet, with the highest standard of living. Along the way, freed slaves and saw life expectancy become the highest in the world.
Contrast to what happened in "progressive"/socialist/liberal nations such as Venezuela, Greece, and the Soviet Union.
Hell, compare North and South Korea for the difference between the capitalist/free-market approach and the "progressive" statist approach. 70 years ago North and South Korea were pretty much identical.
70 years of capitalist/free-market policies have made South Korea the 11th largest economy in the world. 70 years of "progressivism" has left North Korea 113th.
South Korea's people enjoy one of the highest standards of living in the entire world. North Korea's people are worried about starving to death.
Tell me again how facts have a liberal bias...