[mdlug] Compuware - Ford - Jobs Available

[Robert Adkins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org 
> [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Aaron Kulkis
> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 12:16 PM
> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list
> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Compuware - Ford - Jobs Available
> 
> Robert Adkins wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org
> >> [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Aaron Kulkis
> >> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 1:02 AM
> >> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list
> >> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Compuware - Ford - Jobs Available
> >>
> >> gib at juno.com wrote:
> >>>  
> >>> The Compuware contract with Ford may be ending.  Many
> >> people are being taken off of the Ford account.  So, Ford will be 
> >> bringing in replacements.
> >>
> >> Better not be from Wipro -- if so, all of Michigan should be up in 
> >> arms... literally.
> >>
> > 
> >   This could be opening up a can of worms, but why?
> > 
> >   I do not know anything of this Wipro you speak of.
> 
> You've heard stories of people being told that they're going 
> to be layed off, and that their separation benefits are 
> dependent upon training their replacements from India?
> 
> In almost all cases, that's Wipro.  They are the number one 
> abuser of the H1-B visa program.
> 
> About 10 years ago, when I first heard that the H1-B program 
> was being abused, I didn't believe it...but then I started 
> seeing more and more evidence that supports the accusation.
> It's being used to displace American IT workers, not 
> supplement, which is the purpose of the program.
> 

  Thank you. To talk more of this would be sliding deep into politics and
this is not the place to do that.

  -Rob