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       The Obama job plan
   DIR By: trollslayer
       Date: February 6, 2015, 6:52 pm
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       Hire more workers from India.
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       > Information technology workers at Southern California Edison
       (SCE) are being laid off and replaced by workers from India.
       Some employees are training their H-1B visa holding
       replacements, and many have already lost their jobs.
       >
       > The employees are upset and say they can't understand how H-1B
       guest workers can be used to replace them.
       >
       > The IT organization's "transition effort" is expected to
       result in about 400 layoffs, with "another 100 or so employees
       leaving voluntarily," SCE said in a statement. The "transition,"
       which began in August, will be completed by the end of March,
       the company said.
       >
       > "They are bringing in people with a couple of years'
       experience to replace us and then we have to train them," said
       one longtime IT worker. "It's demoralizing and in a way I kind
       of felt betrayed by the company."
       >
       > SCE, Southern California's largest utility, has confirmed the
       layoffs and the hiring of Infosys, based in Bangalore, and Tata
       Consultancy Services (TCS) in Mumbai. They are two of the
       largest users of H-1B visas.
       >
       > The utility has a large IT department. In 2012, before any
       layoffs, it had about 1,800 employees, plus an additional 1,500
       contract workers.
       >
       > Computerworld interviewed, separately, four affected SCE IT
       employees. They agreed to talk on the condition that their names
       not be used.
       >
       > The IT employees at SCE are "beyond furious," said a second IT
       worker.
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       > The H-1B program "was supposed to be for projects and jobs
       that American workers could not fill," this worker said. "But
       we're doing our job. It's not like they are bringing in these
       guys for new positions that nobody can fill.
       >
       > "Not one of these jobs being filled by India was a job that an
       Edison employee wasn't already performing," he said.
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