Outsourced and fired, IT workers fight back

[OhioChick]

Workers charge discrimination prompted 2010 Molina Healthcare IT layoff; file suit against employer and its outsourcer

August 16, 2011 06:50 AM ET

Computerworld - On the day they were fired early last year, about 40 IT employees at Molina Healthcare Inc. had been gathered in a conference room for what they were told would be a planning meeting. At the same time, laptop computers were being collected from the assembled workers' desks.

During the meeting, Molina's then-CIO, Amir Desai, informed the workers that they were being laid off for financial reasons, "not because of performance."

The layoffs came amid rising tensions over a number of issues, including the expanding role of an offshore IT contractor at Molina.

The workers raised the concerns with Desai during the meeting.

More: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219197/Outsourced_and_fired_IT_workers_fight_back

Snip: "Instead, we were being quite confrontational about why they are laying us off and keeping all these H-1B workers."

[xchrom]

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[valerief]

2. That's where I am. Out the door at year end, while our jobs go to India and China. nt

[CoffeeCat]

5. I am so sorry Valerief, and I hope....

...you can find work. At least you have until the end of year to find something else.

My hubby is in the same boat. He has 30 days left and then he is out.

[valerief]

6. Thanks, but I'm too old to be hired and too young for Social Security. You know, the boomer abyss.

Good luck to your husband.

[CoffeeCat]

8. Well...if you're too young for Soc Sec...

...then you're young enough to be hired.

Don't give up, ok?! I know it's difficult and scary--but you can do it!

[truedelphi]

11. In a perfect world, yes, inside a world where like every other

Nation, including So Africa, there would be a decent Universal Single PAYER HEALTH CARE PROGRAM, BORN of a struggle in Congress to give people what Candidate Obama once called, "the best and most logical approach to HC."

But, instead, here in the USA, as a BOOMER, valerief is "entitled" to pay exorbitantly high insurance premiums.

She is going to be out looking for work, and every time her resume slips into some employer's hands, they will note her age. Then they will realize that they can hire a younger person, whose salary expectations might not be as high, and whose insurance premiums will be one third of what a Boomer's are.

[qb]

3. The biggest slap in the face - employees training their own replacements.

[valerief]

7. We do it all the time. Rich people don't care about workers. nt

[CoffeeCat]

4. If you don't care about this---you should!

The globalists are dismantling the United States empire--brick by brick.

First, they came for our manufacturing base. Now that they've gutted that to smithereens, they're going
after IT jobs.

These bastards are hitting all socioeconomic levels. Workers in manufacturing were the solid middle class and the
IT worker are middle- and upper-middle-class. They are decimating our country!

Who is next? If you think your job is safe, you'd better think again! Who would have thought that IT jobs would
be outsourced?

An empire is a threat to the globalists, and anyone who can't see that our country will be rendered weaker and
weaker--is living in a fool's paradise. They're not just "outsourcing jobs", they are leveling the employment
playing field---TO THE LOWEST GLOBAL COMMON DENOMINATOR. That's what globalization does. I hope everyone is hoarding
cash and saving for their own personal economic disaster. Unless you're in the top 5 percent, you will be negatively
impacted.

And people who are doing well now--who thought they were untouchable--will be gob-smacked. Hey, restaurant owners, retail-store
owners, bank vice presidents, interior decorators, and construction companies! Who will eat at your restaurants, or buy
your clothing, or take out a loan, or hire you to spruce up their home or even build a home if the jobs and money disappears????

The pace at which our economy is being destroyed--is really picking up steam.

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. I never expected to see "Nationality" used for this purpose.

Very clever. I hope it works.

[Blue_Tires]

10. kick

[ChromeFoundry]

12. Good for them!

I wish them the best of luck in their lawsuit...

And if the case gets thrown out... They should redecorate the CIO's house, during his next vacation, with Gasoline and Matches.