The U.S. House minority leader, Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), is urging the University of California to drop its plans to send some IT jobs offshore.

The IT employees “have been placed in the untenable position of having to train their replacements — foreign nationals brought to the United States under the H-1B program” by the university’s IT contractor, Pelosi wrote in a letter last week to Janet Napolitano, the university president.

“This misuse of the H-1B visa program is deeply troubling,” said Pelosi.

UC-San Francisco (UCSF) employees recently demonstratedoutside their IT offices and complained about being put in the position of having to train their replacements. Some of the IT employees are now threatening a discrimination lawsuit.

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