Newspaper IT employees 'angry as hell' over foreign workers
Employees don’t understand how this can happenMay 9, 2016 1:59 PM PT
For McClatchy Company IT employees who will lose their jobs once their work is moved to India, there are fury and questions.
As many as 150 IT employees at the chain, which runs some 30 newspapers, will be losing their jobs. (See: "Newspaper chain sending IT jobs overseas."
A government form, called the Labor Condition Application (LCA), is being posted on bulletin boards at the offices of various newspapers in the chain. This form alerts workers that at least one H-1B worker is being used.
Photographs of some of these notices, posted at the Miami Herald, one of the newspapers owned by McClatchy, were sent to Computerworld.
"The are basically firing me and hiring a foreign worker to do my job at less than half the rate they were paying me," said one IT employee. "They really couldn't find American workers to do this job? Seriously? I am angry as hell."
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~ FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE ______ JOBS, AND I SAID NOTHING ~ 
First they came for the Taco Bell jobs, but I said nothing because I was smarter than that and studying in college.
Then they came for the undergraduate intern jobs, but I said nothing because I was a graduate student researcher.
Then they came for the graduate student jobs, but I said nothing because I was working an entry-level white-collar job for a Fortune 500 firm.
Then they automated away my entry-level job, but I said nothing because I was a skilled mid-level employee.
Then they eliminated the pension program, but I said nothing because I had a 401K.
Then they right-sized my group, but I said nothing because I was one of the few high performers they kept.
Then they eliminated the PPO and HMO and switched the entire company to a High Deductible plan, but I said nothing because we would not be delivering any babies or treating chronic conditions, and we were both less than 10 pounds overweight.
Then the landscape changed and my technical skills were useless, but I said nothing because I was in management.
Then the company was reorganized and I was finally let go, and I sought to pick up again.
My experience commanded too high a salary to net another management position. My technical skills were too rusty to get hired in another mid-level position. There were no entry-level white-collar positions left to apply to. The university required a PhD to teach. The undergraduate program tuition alone would cost my entire 401K and savings. I could not be a student and still draw unemployment.
I was no longer young enough to never get sick, and needed regular visits to the doctor.
I was too young to qualify for Medicare, yet had never argued to lower the eligibility age.
I finally applied to a Taco Bell job, where the manager remembered me from their days at the register. He refused to offer me a job because I failed to support his family when he needed health insurance. I threatened to sue and he laughed in my face saying "If you're applying for a job here then I already know you don't have enough money to sue. Welcome to capitalism my friend!"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016151060
"C'mon, I dare ya! Do some work for a change!"
Asking me to research for you again?
Once again, Google is your friend. 
Not to mention on the Greatest Threads to boot!
it is wall-to-wall techies, yet, somehow, companies just can't find American citizens to fill positions. Funny how that happens. You would almost think that they specifically tailor the applications to make sure that citizens who are perfectly capable of doing the job but who require a minimal amount of training just don't have "precisely" the right credentials.
Well she is disgraceful on many many levels. Doesn't seem to bother her avid supporters though
What about Directors, VPs & C-level officers? Funny how those jobs are never outsourced. In fact, one company I worked at, after laying off a few worker bee departments they hired new Directors' & VPs. 
that'll fix this problem.
after November (Unless Bernie is the Nom)
If fact I expect a concerted effort to kill all high paid jobs especially IT after November. Call it TPPing
My husband is the only American on his team here in Houston. And the rest of the team is in India and Ukraine.
My son-in-law (who is Filipino American) is the only American in his group of Indians who are here working on H1-B visas. When he was moved to this group he called me to tell me "Hey, Mom, I'm the token white guy, now! They needed an American citizen on the project, so that's me!" (Government related project....)
Gotta' laugh, otherwise, I'd be crying. I've been worried about my husband finishing out his career in IT, and now I have to worry about my sweet son-in-law who is just starting his 
