Ruthless outsourcing will be the death of the American Dream.
The shotgun blast reverberated across the parking garage of Bank of America’s Concord Technology Center in the Bay Area suburb of Walnut Creek, California. In […]
At indica we follow up on news for the South Asian community – without fear or favor.
The best journalism involves covering issues of importance to the community honestly, responsibly and ethically, and being transparent in the process. At indica we follow up on […]
Share of India born applicants increases to more than 70% among H-1B approved
H-1B visa of the US is the most sought-after work visa around the world. Though the official annual cap of new H-1B approved applications is […]
The victims are the underpaid H-1B employees, the displaced U.S. tech workers and others in related fields whose working conditions are downgraded when employment-based visa workers are underpaid without consequence.
For more than 30 years since the Immigration Act of 1990 created the H-1B visa, Congress has winked at users’ rule-bending year after year. By […]
When he arrives in the U.S. the company displaces a U.S. worker whose wages were higher and replaces that worker with the Indian EB-1C holder.
Imagine the following scenario: An Indian worker would like to become a lawful permanent resident in the U.S. Rather than pursue an education and end […]
The sad reality is you’ve just been terminated without your severance
There are few comprehensive studies on the scope of the phenomenon because contracts and outsourcing processes are typically kept quiet. Conversations with workers and attorneys paint […]
U.S. companies are forcing workers to train their own foreign replacements
Driving the news: AT&T is poised to send thousands into the new year hunting for new jobs after assigning them to train their own foreign replacements, […]
Pink Slips at Disney. But First, Training Foreign Replacements.
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 […]
What Labor Squeeze Andrew Kreighbaum?
I can introduce you to plenty of software types that can’t buy an interview which tells me there is no labor squeeze, just more Tokyo […]
Although COVID-19 has made the U.S. all too aware of its dependence on China for many essential manufactured goods, our reliance on India for information technology (IT) and other high-tech services gets far less attention.
But there is another, more worrisome, dynamic. Although COVID-19 has made the U.S. all too aware of its dependence on China for many essential manufactured […]