A transportation company based in Jacksonville, Florida, is laying off its American Information Technology (IT) employees and sending the jobs to an India-based outsourcing firm.
This month, CSX Corp. announced it would be laying off about 137 of its Florida-based IT employees as part of a contract with India’s outsourcing firm Tata Consulting Services.
Though executives said some IT employees will be offered jobs at Tata, the move is part of a larger outsourcing-offshoring business model. Often, laid-off American workers are punted to outsourcing firms based in India only to have their pay and benefits drastically cut and, eventually, be laid off and replaced with H-1B foreign visa workers.
Those laid-off Americans often have to train their foreign replacements and the job is later moved to India altogether where salaries are far less costly than in the U.S.
“As a result of this change, 137 CSX technology employees in maintenance and support roles will be transitioning from CSX employment and many impacted employees have an opportunity to join TCS and continue to provide support services to our company,” an email sent by CSX Corp. executives, reviewed by the Jacksonville Daily Record, states.
“After the CSX tech employees have transferred their knowledge to H-1B visa workers here in the U.S. and workers in India, they will be quietly moved out the door in a similar fashion to SoCal Edison employees after they were rebadged to [Tata Consulting Services],” Lynn said, referencing the case out of California where hundreds of Americans were laid off and forced to train their H-1B foreign visa worker replacements.
Industry insiders posted on online message boards that they expect the jobs to be fully offshored to India in the near future.
“Typically, if American jobs are going to Tata, they’re going to India, and Americans will be out of work. That’s Tata’s specialty – exporting US jobs to India, typically in IT,” one commenter wrote.
“As someone who works in IT, these sorts of cuts strike close to home and getting your job outsourced is always a fear…” another commenter wrote.
In fiscal year 2021, the top six H-1B visa employers — Cognizant, Amazon, Tata Consulting Services, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook — sought to outsource nearly 57,000 American tech jobs to foreign H-1B visa workers primarily from India and China.
For years, Breitbart News has chronicled the abuses against white-collar American professionals as a result of the H-1B visa program. There are about 650,000 H-1B visa foreign workers in the U.S. at any given moment.
when they say FORCED to train their replacements it means they won’t get their severance package or any retirement they may have coming.. most IT jobs require a bachelor’s degree.. I bet it’s not a requirement in India!! the principled thing to do is all 137 walk out Now! .. easier said than done… if you’re in your 50s or older it’s pretty hard to start over.. probably got a mortgage and 2 kids in college.. I’ve quit jobs on principle but I’m not Married With Children. when others depend on you to eat.. your principles take a beating. and that’s right where they want us! all on purpose all by design.
Mike, if you cooperate in any way with these mother f-kers, you get the same f-king you’d have got if you had made the effort to hurt them back. You don’t walk off the job, you rip the building down to the foundation, then you walk off the job.
You see, this kind of cuts into their profits and if enough of the people did it, it just wouldn’t be economically feasible to outsource one job or grant one visa, not that these sons of bitches, these international corporate mafia scum shouldn’t have been laid to rest a hundred years ago.
If they can use the fact that you are married with children to neuter you, you’re f-ked in the end anyway, aren’t you?