Patrick Thibodeau, who has been following IT outsourcing issues for Computerworld, reports on how seriously the White House is taking this whole 'taking American jobs' thing. Not seriously at all.
President Barack Obama's $4 billion computer science initiative, announced Saturday, is getting financial help from two India-based IT offshore firms. They are joining other tech firms contributing to parts of this program.
The firms, Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services, sit at the top of the pyramidof IT services firms that rely on H-1B visas. They are among the most successful firms in the IT services business.
Infosys and Tata delivered IT services to Southern California Edison and Northeast Utilities (now called Eversource Energy). Employees complained of being forced to train foreign workers to take their jobs, often as a condition of their severance packages.
"Whatever ethical judgment you make about their business model, it is clearly designed to undermine the objectives of the White House initiative," said Hira. "These firms employ a pure-play offshore outsourcing business, where their goal is to ship as many IT jobs offshore as possible," he said.
Both Tata and Infosys are facing discrimination lawsuits from U.S., workers. Both firms have called the lawsuits groundless.
Yet another reminder that this administration does not care about American jobs or American workers.