I have ONLY alluded
Last Task After Layoff at Disney: Train Foreign Replacements
NOW, I COULD tell you what was so special about last year that IT was the time they did this. ALAS, that would be AHEM, POLITICAL! Oh well, c'est la vie. But this is an international thing, and the US companies got more pressure, in the US to do this. The last straw was late last year when it was made clear that certain things would happen 1/1/2015.
Steve