[Caipirabob]

Interesting, but unless congress has taken a hard, realistic look at what they've done to the industry, I fail to see how this suit has any chance of success. Mind you, I believe it should be criminal to displace American workers with foreign workers unless the company has moved that area of business entirely outside of our borders.

[Jumper]

Several indicators of a perception problem there:

- California
- Democrat terror-itory
- Monlolpy-minded Americans can't stand the competition and probably were not competitive in the work place.

[tm22721]

Congress won't do anyting until the US engineering profession is decimated, and the Defense Department is forced to start giving foreign engineers security clearances.

Only then will Republicans wake up and realize that they are giving away the family jewels.

BUMP

[bimbo]

Khosla was quoted as saying that at Sun, people from India ''are favored over almost anybody else.''

Sounds to me like an admission of racial discrimination.

[BnBlFlag]

Are the Indians Apaches or Comanches?

[taxed2death]

I wonder how these American citizens like the fact that their tax dollars support programs to put them out of work?

Globalization.....coming to a town near you!


Thank you Klintoon.

Thank you El Presedente' Jorge Bush.

It will only end when the American middle class is completely decimated.

[EdReform]

Get the Facts on Foreign Worker Visas:

H-1B Hall of Shame

[sharktrager]

There are lots of industries heading to India. One of the most surprising for me was the call center/telemarketing industry. The labor costs between 20-30% of what it is in the US. You'd be amazed how many of your calls to customer service departments aren't answered in the US.

[george wythe]

At the same time, the suit alleges that Sun was applying for permission to bring in about 2,400 foreign workers, mostly from India, to fill technical jobs. Many of these jobs were advertised in the United States, as federal law requires. But the suit alleges that Sun refused to consider any of the laid-off US workers for the positions.

I'm strongly in favor of more immigration, as long as it is fair and regulated immigration.

Nevertheless, if these allegations are correct, Sun has lost its right to use the H-1 visa program.

American workers always have priority, meaning American citizens and legal residents must be considered first before foreigners are imported.

[Zathras]

I didn't used to believe that H1b in general and Indians in specific were stealing American jobs.
I sure do now.

The endless parade of Indian engineers I'm required to train in so they can use my head a stepping stone truly astonishes me.

I once asked one of them about a idea I had to speed productivity and the reply I got was "Oh you don't need to know that".

[waterstraat]

Kmart and Chrysler did the same thing. Probably hundreds of american companies did the same thing.

[notdownwidems]

I hope this suit bankrupts Sun...never met a more arrogant band of pinkos in my life!

[Natural Law]

In know many unemployed and under-employed Silicon Valley people with exemplary qualifications and experience who have responded to Sun's advertised jobs without ever getting so much as a response. If this isn't the explanation what is?

[mabelkitty]

But that's impossible. He's a huge DNC doner, and he would never exploit Clinton into raising the quotas on H1-Bs for his own selfish benefit.

(sar/off)

[goody2shooz]

Ping.

[Jhoffa_]

Then there's too many H1-B visas..

But I don't know if eliminating them is the answer.. The nature of data makes it transferrable.

Therefore, even if the visas were eliminated.. the work could simply be farmed out to Indian firms.

Correct?

[q_an_a]

another reason to reduce H1B is that the majority of the people that come here are from countries that LOVE a social democratic form of govenrment. That means folks who think that the nanny state is the right state. Give me our friends to the south. People who work hard and believe in the almighty God not the almighty state.

[anymouse]

Welcome to hell, code jockies. The aerospace industry has seen this economic genocide happen routinely about every 10 years. Evolve or die.

At least you have more than a handful of companies available that will even look at your resume.

[Dr._Joseph_Warren]

Shipping engineering work to off-shore sites (especially India) is becoming more and more common.

There is a bigger problem then just lost wages.

I'm extremely concerned about how this country is going to maintain its technical edge if we don't train the next generation of engineer from American stock.

[RnMomof7]

lawsuit filed yesterday in California alleges computer giant Sun Microsystems Inc. laid off thousands of American high-tech workers in order to replace them with younger, lower-paid engineers from India.

Sun was started by an Indian Engineer.

I do not see what all the fuss is about we send blue coller jobs to Mexico and China and we bring workers to America to do the jobs more cheaply than Americans..that is free trade at its finest!