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Malkin: North Carolina Subsidizes American Worker Sabotage
Conservative Review ^ | June 7, 2016 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 06/07/2016 9:10:08 AM PDT by huldah1776

Why does North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory hate American workers?

McCrory’s GOP administration is a serial offender when it comes to using tax dollars to lure Indian offshore outsourcing firms to the U.S. Deon Roberts at the Charlotte Observer reported this weekend on the state’s subsidies for companies that use or specialize in H-1B visa workers. Roberts mentioned New Jersey-based Spectra Group, which received “a $2.9 million grant to create 250 jobs in Charlotte” and then applied for 10 H-1Bs, and top outsourcing firm HCL Technologies, which snagged $19 million in state grants in 2014 and then filed initial H-1B applications for more than 2,000 H-1B workers based in North Carolina.

Those are not the only ones.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: employment; h1b; jobs; outsourcing
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Maybe there aren't enough American IT workers?/s
1 posted on 06/07/2016 9:10:09 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: huldah1776

Michelle hits it out of the park again!


2 posted on 06/07/2016 9:11:08 AM PDT by KC_Lion (Never Killary!)
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To: huldah1776

Not enough that will work for $15/hr. The Third-Worldization of America marches on. Forward!


3 posted on 06/07/2016 9:12:43 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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To: huldah1776

RTP between Raleigh and Durham is a haven for IT workers. Maybe we should use some American workers trained in one of the many universities in the area. 0ver 94 million unemployed and we need foreign workers? Not bright.


4 posted on 06/07/2016 9:21:54 AM PDT by nclaurel
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To: huldah1776

The GOP is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Cheap Labor Express.


5 posted on 06/07/2016 9:23:18 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
The GOP is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Cheap Labor Express.

I keep hearing about them, but I can't figure out just who comprises the Cheap Labor Express.

One wonders, might it be possible for the cheap labor/open border weasels to be clearly identified and purged from the GOP?

6 posted on 06/07/2016 9:30:04 AM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except for convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: Seaplaner

80% of the House and Senate GOP are on board.

Going to take a whole lot of Cantorizing.

We showed you all how it is done when we took out our weasel, Eric Cantor.


7 posted on 06/07/2016 9:39:01 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: huldah1776

There may not be in NC.

“Roberts mentioned New Jersey-based Spectra Group, which received “a $2.9 million grant to create 250 jobs in Charlotte”

There is the problem line. The state grant probably specifies that all the employees must be based in NC.

NC is not an IT hub. If this was Boston, NY, Atlanta, Orlando, SF, or Seattle, they’d probably have no problem finding the people. But, NC is a problem for a couple of reasons:

1) Charlotte, despite having a handful of high profile IT companies, does not have a large pool of IT people to pull from.

2) Because of #1, you have to convince people to move to Charlotte, which means paying a premium. Not only for the movement, but for the risk of moving to a non-IT heavy city. Layoffs are common in IT. There’s a world of difference in getting laid off in Boston (where IT jobs are plentiful) and getting laid off in Charlotte (where the job prospects are thinner).

If things had been arranged so you could take the job in Charlotte, but work remotely from your current city (which is common in IT), then they would have had no problem filling the jobs with Americans.

What NC is trying to do here is akin to what my own state of GA has been doing with the movie industry: trying to jumpstart an industry that has no local reason to operate in your state other than tax incentives. There’s a reason the movie industry runs primarily out of Hollywood: logistics.

And, there is a reason the IT industry runs out of a handful of cities in the country: the employee pool is specialized and highly liquid. Employees tend to move from company to company, and companies tend to hire and layoff employees regularly.

Moving to Charlotte is a risk for an IT employee. So yea, you might have problems finding American IT workers to fill those jobs.


8 posted on 06/07/2016 9:55:02 AM PDT by Brookhaven (Hillary Clinton stood next to the coffin of an American soldier and lied to his parents' face)
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To: huldah1776

80% H1Bs here and they have a scam now where when they get interviewed over the phone they hire a person to take a tech test for them. Last week 9 were fired, 2 the week before that.


9 posted on 06/07/2016 10:12:12 AM PDT by Harpotoo
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To: Bryanw92

I have a friend who’s nearly 40 who just got his certification in IT after losing his job 3 years ago when the company moved out of the country. I think he’d take a job at $15 an hour for an entry level IT position.


10 posted on 06/07/2016 10:30:53 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (The day Trump is sworn in I'm changing my screen name.)
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What certification? A+?

I’m talking about Cisco certified professionals with a decade of experience in system administration who are being displaced by H1-Bs who will work for $15/hr.


11 posted on 06/07/2016 10:39:09 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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He went to a 2 1/2 year school and passed his certification for IT. That’s all I know about it.


12 posted on 06/07/2016 10:51:13 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (The day Trump is sworn in I'm changing my screen name.)
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To: VerySadAmerican

There are a lot of companies that are having tremendous challenges with implementing and maintaining ERP and PLM systems, they’re small to midsize companies that import their production, particularly in textiles. There may be opportunity there.


13 posted on 06/07/2016 10:56:00 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Bryanw92

Sysadmins are a dime a dozen. We get tons of applications from them. Many of them are just re-badged tape apes.

Companies are bringing in coders from overseas.


14 posted on 06/07/2016 11:00:54 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: huldah1776

We live in a lawless corrupt time. In better times this governor would have been lynched.


15 posted on 06/07/2016 11:46:19 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Brookhaven
NC is not an IT hub.

BS. Research Triangle Park is in NC. Cisco and a bunch of companies there. Shut up because you don't know what you are talking about. I hope the cheap labor express ruins you and your livelihood.

16 posted on 06/07/2016 11:49:51 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: AppyPappy
Companies are bringing in coders from overseas.

Because we all know there is a shortage of Americans who can write software in the USA. /sarc

17 posted on 06/07/2016 11:53:23 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

There is a shortage of cheap, experienced programmers.


18 posted on 06/07/2016 12:03:26 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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There is a shortage of cheap, experienced programmers.

Well imagine that.

19 posted on 06/07/2016 12:10:36 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: RegulatorCountry

That’s what I’ve told him. He needs to fine some small companies that need an IT guy but aren’t big enough to need an IT department.


20 posted on 06/07/2016 1:03:04 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (The day Trump is sworn in I'm changing my screen name.)
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