Malkin Michelle - Sold Out

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MICHELLE MALKIN is a mother, wife, blogger, conservative syndicated columnist, FOX News commentator, and #1 New York Times bestselling author. She started her newspaper journalism career at the Los Angeles Daily News in 1992, moved to The Seattle Times in 1995, and has been penning nationally syndicated newspaper columns for Creators Syndicate since 1999. She is the founder of Hot Air and Twitchy.com. She lives with her husband and two children in the Colorado Springs area.

JOHN MIANO is a leading expert on the effect of foreign labor on technology workers. He has testified before Congressional committees four times on H-1B issues. As a computer programmer, he founded the Programmers Guild and has written two books on software development. After seeing American programmers being replaced by foreign workers firsthand, he became an attorney. John now represents U.S. and foreign workers who are the victims of guestworker visa abuse. He is also a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, where he conducts research on guestworker programs.

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Names: Malkin, Michelle, author.

Title: Sold out : how high-tech billionaires & bipartisan beltway crapweasels are screwing Americas best & brightest workers / Michelle Malkin and John Miano.

Description: New York : Threshold Editons/Mercury Ink, [2015] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015035723| ISBN 9781501115943 (alk. paper) | ISBN 9781501115967 (ebook : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781501115950 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Labor policyUnited States. | Labor marketUnited States. | Foreign workersGovernment policyUnited States. | Professional employeesUnited States. | Business and politicsUnited States. | United StatesEconomic policy2009

Classification: LCC HD8072.5 .M345 2015 | DDC 331.6/20973dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015035723

Walt Disney World information technology workers laid off

Qualcomm lays off 4,500 workers while demanding more H-1Bs

Intel to cut over 5,000 jobs

Cisco execs try to put best face on 6,000 layoffs

Cargill to outsource IT services; 900 jobs affected

Microsoft wont lay off H-1B before U.S. workers

Bank of America planning to cut 16,000 jobs by year end

Southern California Edison IT workers beyond furious over H-1B replacements

Harley-Davidson cuts IT staff; shifts some to Infosys

[ Northeast Utilities ] cuts IT workforce; hires Indian outsourcers

Did Pfizer force its staff to train their H-1B replacements?

Best Buy hit with lawsuit over layoffs of IT workers

Foreign workers fill hundreds of Sacramento-area IT jobs

Outsourced at home: U.S. workers pissed at H-1B visa program

F rom the Happiest Place on Earth at Walt Disney World in Florida to Silicon Valley and across the heartland, Americas skilled workers are getting screwed. Brutally, insidiously, and comprehensively screwed.

Were going to show you who the worst perpetrators are, how and why theyre doing it, and what we must do to stop them.

The plight of Disney employeesand of tens of thousands like them nationwideis a real-world nightmare that even Hollywoods finest screenwriters couldnt concoct. Disney managers summoned hundreds of their American information technology workers (called cast members) to mysterious meetings in October 2014. The data systems programmers and engineers had just completed an IT project; several proudly bore blue ID badges identifying them as Disney Partners in Excellence. One of these Disney professionals told us he had received a big pay raise before the meeting, along with the highest possible performance review.

But he and his colleagues didnt walk into a fairy-tale celebration of their accomplishments. They walked into a professional death sentenceand their bosses handed them the shovels to dig their own graves. One by one, the Disney cast members heard their bosses read from the same grim script informing them that they would be laid off by January 30, 2015. The evil twist? Before getting the boot, they would be forced to participate in Knowledge Transfer sessions with their younger, cheaper, less-skilled replacements imported from India.

We reviewed two internal Disney documents informing workers about the elimination and outsourcing of their jobs to a managed service provider. Each American IT team member was offered a stay bonus of 10 percent of their base salarybut only contingent upon your continued satisfactory performance of your job duties and responsibilities. One memo warned that workers would lose their bonuses and be terminated before their separation dates if they violated Company policy or engaged in misconduct (e.g., failure to comply with nondisparagement and confidentiality clauses).

Another laid-off Disney IT worker at the Magic Kingdom reported: Some of these folks were literally flown in the day before to take

If you do not cooperate, supervisors warned, you will not get a severance or retention bonus.