CT Techworker Coalition

News is finally surfacing of how the software system of the Boeing 737 Max aircraft – responsible for killing 346 – got so screwed up.

Bloomberg reported on June 28th that the software system, which has grounded the jet for months, had been outsourced to workers in India in an effort to reduce costs. It appears that, as the high-tech plane was being rolled into production, more and more experienced American software engineers were being given pink slips and low-cost workers from HCL, an India-based IT outsourcing firm, had taken over their work.

“Increasingly, the iconic American planemaker and its subcontractors have relied on temporary workers making as little as $9 an hour to develop and test software, often from countries lacking a deep background in aerospace — notably India,” Bloomberg reported.

We’ve seen this happening all over the country. CEOs laying off thousands of highly skilled American workers in a race to jack up profits – and their own bonuses. Our friend Melody Brooks from Ohio is just one of the latest casualties.

The corporate leaders of our country care nothing about the cities, towns, families and homes they destroy. But now they have blood of 346 people on their hands.

I wonder if they feel any remorse whatsoever?

I wonder when the person who made the decision to outsource this work will be held responsible for their decision?

President Trump unveiled his new plan for “legal” immigration recently.

I’ll give you the bad news first – it violates each and every campaign promise he made to us regarding fighting for the rights of US tech workers. Here is an excellent write-up from US Techworkers that outlines how this plan will put even more of us CT IT workers into the unemployment line.

Trump’s shift in policy is like a knife through the heart to all of us who thought he could help our movement. But the good news in all of this is that we don’t have to carry the burden of defending him from now on. I’m so glad that’s over!!

Granted, he’s doing a lot of interesting things (including fighting the Chinese for parity on international tariffs on trade) but his campaign for re-election is essentially doomed. The so-called “deplorables” (i.e., those that have been left behind by the globalist elite who ship our jobs offshore) were the ones that put him into office. And now he is turning his back on them.

US Techworkers did an excellent job at documenting his epic flip-flop …

The news got worse Friday, when USCIS Director Francis Cissna resigned. He had a great record in fighting for the rights of American IT workers. But, in the end, he was forced out.

My only question is this: What happened?

It almost seems like there is no one left to defend American workers? In the 1960s, we ramped up our education systems and aligned our public policy to create millions of scientists, engineers and mathematicians. We won the race to the moon. We created the Internet revolution. We created the smallest, fastest microprocessors. We mapped the human genome.

But now, instead of educating Americans to do this fascinating work, we have become addicted to bringing in people from other countries to do this work for us.

What will become of the next generation? What are they supposed to do for their life’s work?

We live in scary times – but glimmers of hope do appear from time to time.

But it is becoming very clear that we need to take personal action – and not rely on the actions of others. This is a battle that’s going to be won over time, with consistent and deliberate action.

I challenge all of you to please follow the advice given by the speakers at our January rally. 1) Get out and speak to your local elected officials. 2) Volunteer in your community … and share the skills and knowledge you have with the youth in your community. 3) Support the groups that are fighting for you.

This is the only real way things are going to change.

The No-Tolls CT group has gathered over 100,000 signatures on their petition against Governor Lamont’s plan to places toll gantries on CT highways. They’ve been holding rallys in cities and towns across the state – and now they are planning a big demonstration in Hartford on Saturday May 18.

The organizer of the No-Tolls movement, Patrick Sasser of Stamford, has done a great job of uniting working people, like you and I. But there is still a chance this could pass.

But, if an absolutely HUGE group of people show up for this rally, there is a great chance it will go down in flames.

For more info on the rally, click here. But we plan on seeing you in Hartford on the 18th!

Patrick has vowed to harness the power of his resistance movement to help our cause (scrapping the state’s deal with Infosys), so let’s show him how loud and proud we can be on the 18th.

A member of our group made a 24-hour whirlwind trip to our cation’s capital on Feb. 10 to help protest against a Republican Hindu Coalition rally in front of the White house. A group of about 60 Indian Visa workers gathered to voice support for legislation that would dramatically increase the number of Green Cards given to Indian IT workers. But there was a small group of us voicing our opposition.

Our main beef with the state’s deal with Infosys is that they didn’t mandate that the India-based firm hire Americans.

This is what Governor Lamont said …

The Lamont administration said this … “Governor Lamont looks forward to Infosys becoming a key … These will be full–time jobs for individuals, many of whom live, work and play here.”

At first, Infosys guaranteed they would hire 100% Americans for Hartford. Then they said they seemed to change this, by saying all of their workers would be “Visa-independent.”

We immediately got proof that this was not even true. Here is a recording of 3rd party recruiter looking to hire a storage engineer for Infosys in Hartford. He says Visa workers and EAD workers (i.e., students asylum seekers) are OK.

An ally in Florida forwarded us the recruiting e-mail after reading about rally in Hartford. This is the text from the e-mail.

Title:- Storage Engineer
Location: Hartford, CT

Client: Infosys
Position Type: Full Time

Job Description:

Required
• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution. Will also consider three years of progressive experience in the specialty in lieu of every year of education.
• At least 4 years of experience with Information Technology.

Preferred
• At least 4 years of experience in creating requirement specifications based on Architecture/Design /Detailing of Processes
• At least 3 years of experience in environment design, installation, and support of SAN environments
• Hands-on experience with VMware, and Hyper-v virtualization environments.
• Hands-on experience with DR Products such as SRM and RecoverPoint.
• Hands-on experience with Backup Products like Networker and Data Domain, Fabric Manager Server/Client, Powerpath, Cisco IOS, Server OS, Cisco SANOS
• Soft Skills: Strong Analytical and Communication skills, client interfacing skills
• Experience with project management

Thanks & Regards,

Ankit Singh

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Some picture from our rally in Hartford. It was great to meet everyone – and even more great to hear you want to help fight the state’s $14 million deal with Infosys!