Posted on 04/30/2015 5:10:15 AM PDT by Reno89519
At the end of October, IT employees at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts were called, one-by-one, into conference rooms to receive notice of their layoffs.
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[Disney:] "H-1B workers complement - instead of displace - U.S. Workers." It explains that as employers use foreign workers to fill "more technical and low-level jobs, firms are able to expand" and allow U.S. workers "to assume managerial and leadership positions."
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"Some of these folks were literally flown in the day before to take over the exact same job I was doing," said one of the IT workers who lost his job. He trained his replacement and is angry over the fact he had to train someone from India "on site, in our country."
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It's difficult to determine how many H-1B workers, L-1 visa workers or contractor workers generally, were at this Disney site. --snip-- But one observation all of the workers recounted was the widespread use of Hindi.
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"There is no need to have any type of foreigners, boots on the ground, augmenting any type of perceived technological gap," said one worker. "We don't have one, first off."
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The use of H-1B workers to displace U.S. workers is getting more attention in Congress. In response to Southern California Edison's use of foreign labor, 10 U.S. senators recently asked three federal agencies to investigate H-1B use. But one agency, the U.S. Department of Labor, wrote back last week and told the lawmakers that large H-1B using firms "are not prohibited from displacing U.S. workers" as long as they meet certain conditions, such as paying each H-1B worker at least $60,000 a year.
(Excerpt) Read more at computerworld.com ...
What says Ted Cruz in response to the U.S. Department of Labor saying that it is okay for US businesses to use H1B workers to displace U.S. workers so long as they pay that foreign worker at least $60,000 a year? Does he still think the H1B program is okay and does he still support a 500% increase in H1B workers?
Yes, but Trump has a lot of baggage and I really cannot see him as president. Can you?
This isnt new....and the work visa program is needed in several industries...medical for one. Until we can turn out better engs, med techs and so on we will need to find qualified people somewhere.
Blame unions, public schools and registered Democrats for this problem....
The few Americans who follow such topics have probably heard of the H-1B visa program that brings foreign workers to the United States, but even fewer have heard of the L-1B.
"The L-1B is much worse than the H-1B program in terms of its impacts on American workers and the American economy," says Ron Hira, a professor at Howard University who studies the immigration system. "There are no wage standards — foreign workers can be paid home country wages, which is $6,000 a year for an IT worker in India. American workers can be displaced by L-1B workers. There are no recruitment requirements and no educational requirements (the L-1B worker doesn't even need a degree)."
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Terrible abuses have actually taken place. This is from the opening statement by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, at a hearing last March on immigration reform:
GRASSLEY: "Just last year, a Fremont, California tech company, Electronics for Imaging, Inc., was found by the Department of Labor to have violated the Fair Labor Standards Act for having grossly underpaid a group of Indian nationals who the company had transferred on L-1 visas from its office in India to install a new computer system at the headquarters facility in Fremont. "
"Specifically, the company flew eight L-1B workers from Bangalore, India to California and paid them only $1.21 per hour to work 120-hour weeks. The $1.21 hourly rate was equivalent to what the employees made in Indian rupees at their workplace in India. "
"Importantly, though the company was found by the Department of Labor to have violated the Fair Labor Standards Act for paying the workers below [California's] minimum wage, it did not apparently violate any of the terms or conditions of the visa program because there is no prevailing wage requirement." (Wash/Wxaminer/3/25/15 By Byron York).
H1B workers aren’t a hundredth the problem that low-skill, government-dependent, high-crime illegal Latinos are. Unlike all other immigrant groups, Latinos have a record of becoming if anything more socially dysfunctional, on average, at least three generations in.
With the right campaign, even a gay marxist muslim can become president.
Errr...
The media problem makes it a near impossibility, though.
Sure I can.
If he’s going to stand up strongly and for American jobs, I can absolutely support him.
100%.
I'm not confident that Ted Cruz is at that place yet. Sure hope he gets there. He'd be a great positive leader and role model for US citizens in a quest to take our country back.
Wages in IT used to rival executive positions at large companies. IT wages have basically been frozen at 1990’s levels while executive salaries and perks have blasted through the roof.
In most cases, the executives are worthless, imho.
Yeah, not voting for Cruz, not sure who I am voting for though.
What can I say? Its time for a change in the national ecosystem which has given rise to this sort of thing.
Emotions and lack of big picture abilities often get us to trash some of our best hopes.
Then the Senate’s top Democrat, Reid was more deeply involved than previously known in an effort to secure U.S. visas for Chinese investors in a Las Vegas casino despite the concerns of career federal officials, according to an inspector general report released on Tuesday.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) and his staff received weekly updates from top officials at U.S. Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS) regarding the status of visas for investors in the SLS Las Vegas Hotel and Casino, the report reveals.
Executives at the casino’s parent company, a client of Reid’s son Rory, donated thousands of dollars to Reid’s campaign after he helped speed consideration of its applications for visas for its Chinese investors.
That expedited consideration came despite warnings from career USCIS officials that applicants had forged paperwork, tried to conceal the sources of their investment, and, in one case, had ties to a child pornography business. (Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
We have plenty of qualified engineers. We don’t have plenty of qualified engineers willing to work for minimum wage.
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Oh yes the H1b is the problem as it is causing a national brain drain. The bright Americans get starved out and end up leaving the country for good, or their skills rust to ruin. Meanwhile the cheap imported labor sticks around a few years, takes the money and everything they have learned back where they came from.
I wouldn’t go that far re Cruz just yet. For myself, as I have noted elsewhere on Freerepublic, he is my current choice and I’ve backed that up with substantial contributions. But I have a serious problem with his H1B stance and am waiting to hear him clarify and update his position on it.
Walt must be rolling in his grave.
I guess middle class and above IT jobs are among those Americans won’t do. This is a war on the capital owning class against labor.
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