Disney, a top financial backer of the Democratic Party and parent company of ABC News, has been under fire for its decision to lay off hundreds of tech workers, and then compelling those fired workers to train their foreign replacements.
The company is clearly feeling some pressure, as evidenced by their decision to abruptly cancel a separate round of layoffs, and get rid of the foreign replacement workers, possibly denying them a shot at the American Dream:
In late May, about 35 technology employees at Disney/ABC Television in New York and Burbank, Calif., received jarring news. Managers told them that they would all be laid off, and that during their final weeks they would have to train immigrants brought in by an outsourcing company to do their jobs.
The training began, but after a few days it was suspended with no explanation. In New York, the immigrants suddenly stopped coming to the offices. Then on June 11, managers summoned the Disney employees with different news: Their layoffs had been canceled.
"We were read a precisely worded statement," said one of the employees, who was relieved but reluctant to be named because he remains at the company. "We were told our jobs were continuing and we should consider it as if nothing had happened until further notice."
Of course, Disney's latest actions raises a troubling question: What do they have against foreign workers? The move comes just days after the Hillary Clinton campaign, in a stunning display of nativist aggression, denied access to a pool reporter from a foreign news outlet.