The founder of US Techworkers, Kevin Lynn, is well known to us. He was one of our earliest supporters and his group has provided guidance to displaced Connecticut IT workers ever since our January 2019 rally in Hartford.
On a national level, US Techworkers has provided boots-on-the-ground lobbying in DC that, over and over again, defeated legislation that would have put even more of us out of work.
He’s been THAT GUY who has been taking the fight to the globalists, who won’t rest until we all lose our jobs
But, in his most-recent Founder’s Corner missive, Kevin says the days of us cowering in our cubicles is over and he urges us all to join him in harnessing the fighting spirit that lives within all of us.
It’s, perhaps, his best written material produced to date.
The most inspirational part of this article came when he pointed to the life examples offered by Bob Heath, a Florida IT industry veteran that recently passed away. Heath led a one-man war against anyone and everyone who would seek to drive Americans out of our profession. Even as cancer was about to take his life, Bob was looking for his laptop, so he could file yet another Department of Labor complaint against corporations who discriminate against Americans.
Bob didn’t have a lawyer and, after going through bouts of unemployment, his funds were limited. But he still found a way to fire off these complaints and he won settlement after settlement after settlement. He was a nightmare for corporate HR departments and that person who made companies know they’re being watched.
Many of us live a life of quiet desperation. We see our companies hiring foreign Visa workers. We are asked to train them in our jobs. We know what comes next.
The days of sitting back and letting things happen to us is over! We need to take the fight to the people doing this to us. No one is going to do this for us.
After all, it doesn’t take much. Just observe and have the guts to reach out to fellow employees.
Attorney and tech worker John Miano offers this advice:
When managers make verbal statements, write down what you heard, what you were supposed to do, and what your reaction to the statements was. Include the date. You want to have as much information as possible about context to help make the statements admissible as evidence. If it is legal in your state, record the conversations.
Recording the reaction to what your employer said is just as important as recording what was said. You need to overcome the problem of hearsay. Hearsay is an out of court statement made to prove the truth of the matter asserted in the statement. However, there are many ways to get around the hearsay problem.
Example. On August 8th, an HR manager, Mr. Green said in a meeting, “You Americans are just lazy.
Imagine you are on the witness stand.
If nothing else, join our SWAT team, a phone bank of IT pros who call our representatives in DC before big votes.
But most importantly, let’s all stand up and adopt the fighting spirit – just like Bob Heath!
If we do nothing, what will be left for our children?