The wave of Indians invading the corpocracy is not an accident. As is always the case among those from low-trust societies, once one is in, their primary objective is to allow more in. And once they gain control of HR, they exclude the natives. It doesn’t matter if it’s Jews controlling the entrance departments of the Ivy League schools or Indians controlling the employment agencies, the same process will be observed:
A company that supplies thousands of workers for Silicon Valley’s technology industry and other Bay Area employers intentionally discriminated against non-Indian workers, a jury has found.
The jury verdict against Cognizant, founded in Chennai and now headquartered in New Jersey, came Friday in a class-action lawsuit that revolved around claims the firm abused the H-1B visa process. The visa is intended for workers with specialized skills, and Silicon Valley tech firms rely on it heavily to secure top talent and also to obtain workers for lower-level jobs via Cognizant and other staffing firms.
Three U.S.-born workers described in the lawsuit as “Caucasian” — Vartan Piroumian of California, Christy Palmer of Arizona and Edward Cox of Texas — sued Cognizant in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles in 2017. Another plaintiff described as Caucasian, Jean-Claude Franchitti, a green card holder from France, joined as a plaintiff later.
The lawsuit claimed Cognizant ousted many non-Indian workers by first taking them off projects and “benching” them without work, then keeping them benched until firing them in accordance with a company policy.
Cognizant said Monday it was “disappointed with the verdict” and would appeal.
“We provide equal employment opportunities for all employees and have built a diverse and inclusive workplace that promotes a culture of belonging in which all employees feel valued, are engaged and have the opportunity to develop and succeed,” the company said. “Cognizant does not tolerate discrimination and takes such claims seriously.”
Federal government data show Cognizant obtains H-1B visas for hundreds of Indian citizens to work in Bay Area jobs per year, said Ron Hira, a Howard University professor who studies the visa and testified for the plaintiffs in the lawsuit. Data from 2023 show Cognizant placed H-1B holders at Bay Area employers ranging from Google, Meta and Apple to PG&E, Kaiser Permanente and Walmart.
The H-1B has become a political flashpoint. Critics point to abuses including replacement of U.S. workers by visa holders, while the tech industry lobbies to boost the annual cap on new visas past 85,000.
The most recent research, by the Bay Area Council, showed nearly 60,000 foreign citizens on the H-1B were approved to work for Bay Area companies in 2019. The vast majority are from India.
A company, a company “founded in Chennai,” which is the city “formerly known as Madras, is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India. It is the state’s primate city and is located on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal.”
So an Indian company gets a foothold into the Silicon Valley HR departments, controls access to the jobs distributed there, and promptly floods all of the corporations with Indians. This is yet another reason why anti-discrimination laws are unjust and need to be abolished on the basis of violating the freedom of association. Discrimination is a good and necessary policy on the part of any employer; one always must discriminate on the basis of competence and agreeability if the operation is to function correctly. If the discrimination is not open and above-board on the part of the natives, it will be subversive and destructive on the part of the invaders.
UPDATE: An informative comment on SG: The company I used to work for hired a “British” CEO. Within a year, 75% of the C suite was Indian, and my whole team was outsourced to India. The stock has tanked 90% in 2 years.
DISCUSS ON SG