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OhioChick

(23,218 posts)
Fri Apr 18, 2014, 04:26 PM Apr 2014

H-1B loophole may help California utility offshore IT jobs

It is the second major utility in a year to announce IT outsourcing

April 17, 2014 05:41 PM ET

Southern California Edison is outsourcing part of its IT operations, and the jobs may be going overseas.

Edison (SCE) is working with Infosys, which is based in India, and iGate, a New Jersey-based company with major offshore centers, as it prepares to lay off workers, according to U.S. government records.

SCE said it is still actively evaluating outsourcing vendors, "and expects to select vendor partners by mid-year." It didn't say which vendors are in consideration.

Northeast Utilities, last fall, announced it was outsourcing part of its IT operations to Infosys and another Indian-based IT services giant, Tata Consultancy Services, and cut about 200 jobs. SCE isn't disclosing how many jobs may be cut, but the Los Angeles Times reports the number is in the hundreds.

More: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9247744/H_1B_loophole_may_help_California_utility_offshore_IT_jobs_
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H-1B loophole may help California utility offshore IT jobs (Original Post) OhioChick Apr 2014 OP
ah, yes, Tata.... antigop Apr 2014 #1
Years ago, when my husband worked in IT at Fannie Mae LiberalEsto Apr 2014 #2
your president and congress are ok with this so what'sthe problem? nt msongs Apr 2014 #3

antigop

(12,778 posts)
1. ah, yes, Tata....
Fri Apr 18, 2014, 05:02 PM
Apr 2014
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jul/30/nation/na-buffalo30

To many labor unions and high-tech workers, the Indian giant Tata Consultancy Services is a serious threat -- a company that has helped move U.S. jobs to India while sending thousands of foreign workers on temporary visas to the United States.

So when Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) came to this struggling city to announce some good news, her choice of partners was something of a surprise.

Joining Tata Consultancy's chief executive at a downtown hotel, Clinton announced that the company would open a software development office in Buffalo and form a research partnership with a local university. Tata told a newspaper that it might hire as many as 200 people.

The 2003 announcement had clear benefits for the senator and the company: Tata received good press, and Clinton burnished her credentials as a champion for New York's depressed upstate region.

But less noticed was how the event signaled that Clinton, who portrays herself as a fighter for American workers, had aligned herself with Indian American business leaders and Indian companies feared by the labor movement.
 

LiberalEsto

(22,845 posts)
2. Years ago, when my husband worked in IT at Fannie Mae
Fri Apr 18, 2014, 05:08 PM
Apr 2014

they brought in large numbers H1-B visa workers through Tata.

Tata maintained dormitories for those workers so they could avoid the cost of housing in the DC area.

Many American citizen IT workers lost their jobs because they were replaced by these "Tatas" as they were called.

I don't know if they still have the dorms but Tata has helped American corporations get rid of an awful lot of American jobs.

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