R U Outsourced Yet ???

You've spent twenty plus years loyally working in Information Technology (IT) for Southern California Edison, and eighteen months ago your boss tells you that they are going to study outsourcing but not to worry, "your position is safe." On the one hand you are worried because you know many stories of American IT workers losing their jobs to outsourcing, but on the other you feel comforted that you've been loyal to SCE and provide a critical service. Then eight months ago they tell you that they are outsourcing most IT functions and that they want you, get this, to train your guest worker replacement. If you say no, SCE will terminate you with cause and you would lose not only a severance package but also eligibility for unemployment insurance. This is the common story I heard from many workers at SCE.

The work that the 400 SCE IT employees do isn't disappearing, instead it and their jobs are being taken over by foreign guest workers here on H-1B visas. Those guest workers are employed by the two leading India-based outsourcing firms, Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys.

The SCE workers are wondering: "Why should I lose my job when the work still needs to be done? Why is the government doing this to me and my family?"

Adding to the injustice of losing their jobs, the SCE workers are being forced to do something that is so common in the industry it is a term of art: “knowledge transfer,” an ugly euphemism that means being forced to train your own foreign replacement. The SCE workers are, "demoralized; in disbelief; beyond furious; down in the dumps; feeling anguish; depressed; feeling dehumanized; feeling humiliated; worrying about the future; worrying about paying the bills."

The SCE workers rightly place the culpability squarely on SCE executives, the president, and Congress. One worker simply said, "Shame on Edison for doing this and shame on our politicians for enabling it."

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/labor/235706-outsourcing-in-america

I personally witnessed this being done over 15 years ago by Illinois Power to its IT employees.

This is a variation of your basic "taxation without representation" problem. A government which you believe to be "yours" (but which is not) helps bankgangsters, corporations, and their collaborators in the one percent give away your job, steal your retirement, and subject you to draconian rules and regulations ... and gives you nothing in return. NOTHING.

And still you won't fight back. Very strange.

By the way, SCE, our politicians, and their ilk have no shame. They don't give a shit about you. They have sold us out for their own enrichment.

And if you think the above practice is bad, wait until TPP and TTIP get approved:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/lawmakers-say-tpp-meetings-classified-to-keep-americans-in-the-dark/5437233

You really have no inkling of how badly "our" government has screwed us, but you'll soon find out.