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OhioChick

(23,218 posts) Mon Feb 1, 2016, 02:29 PM Feb 2016

White House education plan leaves visa critics flabbergasted

Jan 31, 2016 11:16 AM PT

President Barack Obama's $4 billion computer science initiative, announced Saturday, is getting financial help from two India-based IT offshore firms. They are joining other tech firms contributing to parts of this program.

The firms, Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services, sit at the top of the pyramid of IT services firms that rely on H-1B visas. They are among the most successful firms in the IT services business.

Infosys and Tata delivered IT services to Southern California Edison and Northeast Utilities (now called Eversource Energy). Employees complained of being forced to train foreign workers to take their jobs, often as a condition of their severance packages.

Most recently, Northeast Utilities IT workers hung small American flags on their cubicles. The flags were meant to protest the transfer of their jobs to the IT services firms.

More: http://www.computerworld.com/article/3028022/it-careers/white-house-education-plan-leaves-visa-critics-flabbergasted.html

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White House education plan leaves visa critics flabbergasted (Original Post) OhioChick Feb 2016 OP

What Infosys and Tata REALLY deliver is: unemployed American IT professionals. LiberalEsto Feb 2016 #1

Do you know what the IT unemployment rate is? Igel Feb 2016 #10

You obviously, Do Not. ChromeFoundry Feb 2016 #11

That's probably because few American kids bother studying for IT careers any more LiberalEsto Feb 2016 #12

I bet these two firms are in his investment portfolio. ChromeFoundry Feb 2016 #2

yeah, more of that hope and change he promised up. (Countdown to alert ... 3 ...2...) roguevalley Feb 2016 #5

Sometimes I wonder....... backtomn Feb 2016 #3

I am not "flabbergasted". bvar22 Feb 2016 #4

Hillary also has a cozy relationship with these outsourcers newthinking Feb 2016 #6

she certainly does antigop Feb 2016 #7

she is great on issues that don't step on the toes of the wealthy yurbud Feb 2016 #13

This sh*t really makes me angry. nt antigop Feb 2016 #8

This is the legacy of Obama that Hillary will continue. nt earthshine Feb 2016 #9

LiberalEsto

(22,845 posts)

1. What Infosys and Tata REALLY deliver is: unemployed American IT professionals.

Reply to OhioChick (Original post)

Mon Feb 1, 2016, 02:40 PM

Feb 2016

This is insane.

Igel

(35,317 posts)

10. Do you know what the IT unemployment rate is?

Reply to LiberalEsto (Reply #1)

Mon Feb 1, 2016, 08:21 PM

Feb 2016

It's lower than the unemployment rate for college grads.

Which is well under 3%.

At some point the kvetching becomes anachronistic and makes ALGOL seem cutting edge.

ChromeFoundry

(3,270 posts)

11. You obviously, Do Not.

Reply to Igel (Reply #10)

Mon Feb 1, 2016, 10:31 PM

Feb 2016

https://cew.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/Underemployment-Declines.pdf

LiberalEsto

(22,845 posts)

12. That's probably because few American kids bother studying for IT careers any more

Reply to Igel (Reply #10)

Mon Feb 1, 2016, 10:37 PM

Feb 2016

My husband has worked in IT for more than 30 years and has watched numerous co-workers and friends lose jobs to low-paid Tatas. One major employer for which he worked for almost two decades now has an unwritten policy of only hiring people from India. He and I both know IT people who were forced to train people to take over their jobs.