Last Task After Layoff at Disney: Train Foreign Replacements

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ORLANDO, Fla. — The employees who kept the data systems humming in the vast Walt Disney fantasy fief did not suspect trouble when they were suddenly summoned to meetings with their boss.

While families rode the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train and searched for Nemo on clamobiles in the theme parks, these workers monitored computers in industrial buildings nearby, making sure millions of Walt Disney World ticket sales, store purchases and hotel reservations went through without a hitch. Some were performing so well that they thought they had been called in for bonuses.

Instead, about 250 Disney employees were told in late October that they would be laid off. Many of their jobs were transferred to immigrants on temporary visas for highly skilled technical workers, who were brought in by an outsourcing firm based in India. Over the next three months, some Disney employees were required to train their replacements to do the jobs they had lost.

“I just couldn’t believe they could fly people in to sit at our desks and take over our jobs exactly,” said one former worker, an American in his 40s who remains unemployed since his last day at Disney on Jan. 30. “It was so humiliating to train somebody else to take over your job. I still can’t grasp it.”

The layoffs at Disney and at other companies, including the Southern California Edison power utility, are raising new questions about how businesses and outsourcing companies are using the temporary visas, known as H-1B, to place immigrants in technology jobs in the United States. These visas are at the center of a fierce debate in Congress over whether they complement American workers or displace them.

According to federal guidelines, the visas are intended for foreigners with advanced science or computer skills to fill discrete positions when American workers with those skills cannot be found. Their use, the guidelines say, should not “adversely affect the wages and working conditions” of Americans. Because of legal loopholes, however, in practice companies do not have to recruit American workers first or guarantee that Americans will not be displaced.

 

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[Guitar Doc 1,207]

Corporate Capitalism in action. Maximize profits by paying your staff the least you can get away with.

 

JP Morgan invented economic streamlining. It forced Carnegie and and JD Rockefeller to follow suit in order to compete. That lead to mass unemployment in the USA and depressed the overall economy as less people in work means less money being spent in the domestic economy.

 

Funny how rich people don't seem to understand domestic economics.....or perhaps they do.

 

Governments exist to regulate commerce. It is what commercial Law is for and they are charged with creating commercial law. You see what happens when Corporations own governments. You think the US people will make them fix it?

What will logically happen if they don't?

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More news links on this story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff-at-disney-train-foreign-replacements.html?_r=1

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2879083/southern-california-edison-it-workers-beyond-furious-over-h-1b-replacements.html

 

[YourMom2 1,282]

We all complain about the help desk in India so now the help desk comes to us, the low wage worker riding the poverty class train to America.

The lawyers are lining up at the gate waiting for the first ride to derail.

http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/images/articles2/Personal-injury-CA-amusement-park-suit-art-2.jpg

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I read about this earlier in the year. This is one reason I don't accept company pensions, as they're using your own money to blackmail you, and they decide when and how much of your own money you can have. It gives them leverage and allows them to force people to "feed the hand that bites them" so to speak.