Last spring, Leo Perrero, an American information technology worker at Walt Disney World, was given an ultimatum: either leave his job that day without pay, or train his foreign worker replacement for the next 90 days to get a severance package.
Perrero told the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest in Wednesday's hearing on the impact of high-skilled immigration on U.S. workers that his story is not the exception. In late fall 2014, Disney executives told Perrero and hundreds of his fellow IT workers employed at the company's Orlando park that they would be losing their jobs and training foreign workers who would replace them in three months.
"That day, 20 years of hard work, a bachelor's degree in Information Technology, and an IT job for Disney were all over when my team, along with hundreds of others, were displaced by a less-skilled foreign work force imported into our country using the H-1B visa program," said Perrero, a 10-year employee with Disney.
Perrero, a father, said he was forced to choose between providing for his family and stay on to train his replacement, or quitting instantaneously to symbolically stand up for Americans' being displaced by cheaper labor.
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4 comments:
How many times can we shoot ourselves in the foot and still be able to dance?
They can thank Obama for this action. Americans should stand tall and boycott Disney.
Just so you all know, Marco Rubio was instrumental in this situation and even had the audacity to BLAME the victims of his actions, stating the foreigners were more qualified. Funny, if they were more qualified to do the jobs, why did they have to be trained by the former employees? Have to love the illogical mutterings of an adolescent running for president.
11:13am
You can't boycott Disney. They are one of the half-dozen global/multi-national corps that control 99% of all you see, hear and read.
ABC TV & ABC Radio, California Angels & Might Ducks, A&E Channel, ESPN, State Farm & Berkshire Hathaway Insurance, Chilton Publishing, 21 radio stations, 18 regional TV stations, 11 U.S. Newspapers....much more.
Ya see?
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