Utility Company Shuts Off Power to 75,000 Californians on Thanksgiving Due to High Winds
Southern California Edison (SCE) shut off upwards of 75,000 Californians’ power on Thanksgiving Day as strong winds threatened to spark wildfires.
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Southern California Edison Shuts Off Power to 5,000 on Thanksgiving
Utility company Southern California Edison shut off power to 5,000 customers in Los Angeles and Ventura counties on Thursday — Thanksgiving Day — amid elevated fire danger due to strong winds, and warned that over 100,000 additional customers could also see their power turned off.
Southern California Edison Reported Circuit Malfunction Minutes Before Woolsey Fire Began
Southern California Edison disclosed to officials that a circuit operated by the company malfunctioned minutes prior to the Woosley fire’s eruption.
California Regulators Set 2025 Closure of Last Nuclear Power Plant
The Public Utility Commission announced an agreement Thursday with Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) to close California’s last nuclear power plant reactors at Diablo Canyon by 2025.
Utility Equipment Probed as Possible Cause of California Fires
Southern California Edison has been informed by authorities that its equipment is being investigated as a possible cause of some of the fires that have raged across the region for the past week.
Report: PG&E Offshoring IT Jobs to India to Cut Wage Costs
In the latest high visibility offshoring of Silicon Valley jobs to India, the San Francisco Business Times (SFBT) reported last month that the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) will offshore about 72 information technology (IT) jobs from San Francisco to India in a restructuring that could slash labor costs by 75 percent.
CA Liberals’ Demand to Shut Power Plants Risks New Energy Crisis
The Los Angeles Times reports a new effort to shut down local natural gas power plants due to the possibility of a 21 percent electrical capacity glut by 2020. But shrinking the surplus generation cushion runs the risk of launching another energy crisis like the one that caused Governor Gray Davis’ recall.
Tesla Wins $100M Award for 80MWh SoCal Edison Battery Storage
Tesla Powerpack announced that it is the exclusive winner of the competition to provide Southern California Edison 80 megawatts (MWh) of battery storage at a price of about $100 million.
VIDEO: California Man Goes on Rampage with Chainsaw, Truck
A man armed with a chainsaw attempted to run over people at a Southern California Edison storage facility, as seen in video footage captured Tuesday.
Ted Cruz, Jeff Sessions Roll Out Antidote To Broken H-1B Program: American Jobs First Act
Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Jeff Sessions (R-AL) together are promoting new legislation to reform the H-1B visa program, after scores of abuses by companies including Disney, Southern California Edison and more.
Apple’s H-1B Partner Banned for Underpaying Aliens
Two Silicon Valley companies that import foreign software engineers for Apple and other firmss were fined and banned from the controversial H-1B visa program for underpaying what are already cheap foreign tech workers.
Toys ‘R’ Us Forces U.S. College Grads To Train Their H-1B Foreign Replacements
Toys “R” Us is the latest in a string of U.S. companies that has been caught forcing their American employees to train foreign college-grads to take the Americans’ jobs, via a process known as “knowledge transfer.”
Donald Trump Aligns with Iowa’s Chuck Grassley on H-1B Visa Reform
Donald Trump has doubled down on his pledge to crack down on H-1B visa abuses and aligned himself with perhaps the most popular politician in all of Iowa, Senator Chuck Grassley.
Rubio Fundraises with Oracle’s Larry Ellison in Silicon Valley
Oracle’s billionaire guru Larry Ellison will be hosting a $2,700 per-person fundraiser for 2016 presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) on Tuesday at his mansion in Woodside, California.
Zuckerberg Ally, H1-B Advocate: Laid-off Americans ‘Don’t Work Hard Enough’
During a recent National Journal LIVE event, venture capitalist Lars Dalgaard, who is closely affiliated with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s lobbying group FWD.us, suggested that the reason hundreds of American STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) and information technology (IT) workers at Southern
Displaced Southern California Edison Workers Sue Obama Admin. Over Unilateral Visa Rule
Former Southern California Edison employees are suing the Obama administration over its H-4 visa rule that grants work permits to certain spouses of H-1B visa holders. They say the action negatively impacts the SCE workers because not only does it benefit their direct H-1B visa competitors but it also increases the labor pool with new H-4 visa holders.
Senate Committee Warned: H-1B Visas Could Eliminate STEM Jobs for Americans
Americans are being crowded out of their jobs and being replaced by H-1B workers, witnesses told the Senate Judiciary Committee during a Tuesday hearing.
Exclusive: Union Official Says ‘Corporate Greed’ Behind Push for H-1B Visas
A so-called “war on the American worker” has intensified in the Golden State. Massive layoffs are being spearheaded by the multi-billion dollar Southern California Edison utilities company, which is terminating scores of American IT workers and replacing them with immigrant IT workers, from a slew of foreign counties, who are willing to work for far less compensation. These immigrants are in the U.S. on an H-1B visa program.
Darrell Issa: ‘Deeply Disturbing’ So. Cal. Edison Abusing H-1B Visas to Replace Americans with Guest Workers
Even one of Congress’s most prominent supporters of H1-B visa increases finds it “deeply disturbing” that Southern California Edison may be using the program to replace American workers with cheaper foreigners who may not even be as qualified. Rep. Darrell