Wipro has acquired Citi Technology Services, the India-based provider of IT services to Citigroup, for $127 million in cash. With the addition of Citi Technology’s 1,650 coolies, Wipro’s total coolie count will rise to 99,202 (it may have already reached 100,000 taking into account the coolie cattle trains arriving from the campuses). Under the deal, […]
News coming out of India suggests that 60,000 contract employees at the top IT firms in India have been shown the door. Mumbai newspaper DNA is reporting based on anecdotal evidence and interviews with staffing firms that 60,000 contract workers have received pink slips. That seems like a very high estimate to us given that the […]
After the clowns in the Tamil film industry, the software coolies in Tamil Nadu have jumped on the support-the-poor-suffering-Sri Lankan Tamils bandwagon. The Hindu reports that hundreds of IT workers belonging to leading Indian software companies in Chennai have launched a campaign on Monday in support of Sri Lankan Tamils. We wonder why the f*** these […]
Is this the shot against coolies that will be heard all over the world? IT workers in the UK cities of Manchester and Skelmersdale (in West Lancashire) have voted to strike over job losses and offshoring of their jobs to India. The workers are said to be members of the Unite trade union and work for […]
Over 150,000 Bollywood workers including spotboys, junior artistes, lighting handlers, sound technicians, camera men and daily wage workers are on strike demanding higher wages, regular pay and hiring of union workers. The strike is in response to a call by the Federation of Western India Cine Employees, an umbrella union for 22 Bollywood associations. Unlike the superstars like […]
Showing the middle finger to Swedish IT workers, Ericsson has inked a five-year contract with India’s Tata Consultancy Services to provide application maintenance and development services for Ericsson’s internal IT operations. Like their American counterparts, Nordic companies are increasingly hopping on to the outsourcing bandwagon. The value of the contract was not disclosed.