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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.
I think that this sort of an incident and the response to it highlights the very contradictory nature of so many leftist ideals.
When old workers are replaced by younger workers, some people will allege that "ageism" is responsible.
But when younger workers aren't hired in favor of keeping around older workers, we also see some people allege that "ageism" is responsible!
When American workers aren't replaced by foreign workers, some people will allege that "diversity" is lacking.
But when American workers are replaced by foreign workers, we also see some people allege that "diversity" is lacking!
Leftists have spun such an illogical web of ideals that at any given time we can see the same "-ism" or the same "discrimination" happening no matter what choice is made or no matter what course of action is taken!
When a set of ideals is so inherently contradictory, the only sensible thing to do is to do a complete reevaluation as to their sanity. Chances are the only sensible conclusion that can be reached is that such a system of thinking is so utterly flawed that it needs to be completely discarded. There is no fixing it.
the CEOs of the outsourcing firms have been caught a few times complaining about lazy Americans. And frankly he's right. By Indian or Chinese standards our 50-60 hour work weeks make us lazy. The H1-Bs I know regularly put in 80 hour work weeks. They're young and disposable but they don't care because currency exchange means they're earning a fortune working here. Best case they get a greencard and start doing the 50-60 hr work weeks of Americans, worst case they go back home flush with cash.
The moral? You can't compete with India. You can't compete with a country that has a literal cast system and effective slavery for millions of their citizens. End the H1-B program. Start calling your congressman/woman/thing and ask them why they haven't ended the program. There are other programs for rural doctors. The program is for replacing Americans. Call your congressman and ask. Remind them you and your family and your friends won't be voting for them in their primary. Make sure you say primary. They've gerrymandered the districts. After their Primary they'll win. But they're vulnerable in the primary.
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You are underscoring the very heart of this issue. Why is only one industry a candidate for this legal replacement? H-!B should be open to all professions or not at all. Also there should be a set amount of H-!Bs available at every salary level, including executive/administrative.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
HCL may be India-based, but it's going to be hard to prove that this is offshoring. HCL has a lot of US operations. It's practically a subsidiary of Microsoft in the US, in fact. They definitely employ a lot of people in the US. So they may be able to pass it off as simply outsourcing rather than offshoring of their operations. It's going to come down to personal accounts of who were the replacements whom the laid-off workers were training. If they are US residents, this isn't likely to go anywhere.
Any guest worker system is indistinguishable from indentured servitude.
The first rule of outsourcing:
Don't.
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You think the cost savings was passed onto the students? Oh that's a good one.
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You are not going to beat these organizations in court and walk away with just compensation. The lawyers will win big and the workers will end up getting the equivalent of a coupon to Red Lobster out of the settlement. Their names are forever stuck in a Google search showing they sue employers.
If you really want to stop outsourcing in America, you need to socially punish the managers that advocate and those that are close to them (family and friends). Publish their names online with their Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram, and Linkedin accounts. Inform their friends and family who are linked to them that it would be in their best interest to "unfriend/unfollow" them or they will be caught up in the social shaming for supporting the perpetrator. Faceless corporations and colleges are not replacing workers, human beings are. Identify those human beings and magnify their actions for the public to see. Pressure their relationships to follow suit or they will suffer the social shame as well. Make a personal cost for the activity at an individual level. (Rule #13)
Make the practice of screwing Americans hurt in the social arena in addition to having their family and friends shun them. If you really want to solve this overnight, hand over the names of Americans outsourcing jobs to H1-Bs to the weaponized autists of 4chan.