Posted on 02/04/2015 5:26:26 PM PST by Bill_o'Rights
Information technology workers at Southern California Edison (SCE) are being laid off and replaced by workers from India. Some employees are training their H-1B visa holding replacements, and many have already lost their jobs.
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The H-1B program "was supposed to be for projects and jobs that American workers could not fill," this worker said. "But we're doing our job. It's not like they are bringing in these guys for new positions that nobody can fill.
"Not one of these jobs being filled by India was a job that an Edison employee wasn't already performing," he said.
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SCE employees said that since August, when the layoffs began, the composition of the IT workplace began to change. "I see a lot of Indian people walking the halls, and less Americans," said a third IT worker interviewed.
(Excerpt) Read more at computerworld.com ...
You may be right, but still a gross overgeneralization.
Everyone other than us old white dudes have an IQ of under 70?
I refuse to buy into that!
It is not stupidity. Bringing in a large contingent of new workers on H1-B indenture contracts immediately undercuts the position of the native workers who remain. Everybody must become more obedient and more docile, or they are gone.
A large company, in particular, can afford to absorb quite a bit of incompetence in a new work force, at least in the short term. The benefits of purportedly lower wages can be made to appear immediately on the annual report, while the costs of poor performance are much harder to recognize and easier to hide.
Keep in mind that H1-B employees are captive to their employers during the terms of their visas and cannot participate in a free market for their services. They also have no recourse in the political system of this country. This is by design.
Companies which use the H1-B system do not want a free competitive market for labor or business. Their model requires Government policies which suppress labor costs and erect protective regulatory barriers to deflect smaller competitors.
yep, we need to regroup at the state level, and work to restore the Republic
An outstanding and inspirational story! Congratulations for your accomplishments, and may others emulate them!
bump
The Indian programmers aren’t usually that good.
Good luck with that. The GOP establishment is in a race with the Democrats to see who can be the most disloyal to the American people.
Unless it's a well-concealed foreign beach, they can run, but they can't hide forever.
But not the politicians, the whole corrupt "professional" bunch.
At that point, "we meant well... doing the 'right thing'" can no longer cut it. If we know who they are, they know who they are.
More LOVE from Jeb.
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Ted Cruz loves H1b’s. Jeb loves illegals. It’s a tag team against the American people.
That might be the gross rate charged by the agency rather than the net rate that your friend actually receives.
In any event, larger companies will pay amazingly high rates for what they view as a disposable work force. "Contracting out" is not about cost savings; it is about flexibility.
If your friend got a net rate as described, then he is doing very nicely.
Note that Consultants must receive at least 35% higher hourly rates than "full-time permanent" employees in order to have the equivalent income. Those who work on short-term and intermittent contracts need hourly rates that are about 120%-200% higher than FTP rates.
Consultants who cannot do this end up broke.
Some are, some are not.
But the H1-B agency people do not get paid to be good. They get paid to be agreeable. People the world over usually respond to incentives and do what is actually rewarded rather than what is stated.
First I appreciate your praise. On subject of H-1B visa’s, I have observed most Americans who lose jobs are in IT.
I rarely here doctors, lawyers, scientists, accountants, pharmacists, Chiropractors, Novel writers, movie actors, commercial pilots, nurses, police, firemen, teachers high schools, college professors, Insurance salesman, construction workers, government employees, workers in TV program productions, people in advertising, and a host of others occupations, complain about H-1B visa’s.
May be the American computer programmers should learn a different skill. There are just too many programmers floating around the world. And corporations will exploit that source relentlessly.
Apples and oranges.
The Founders were in a different position entirely. The threat was not cheap labor; it was the absolute control by the Crown and requirement to buy all manufactured good from England and the duty to provide raw materials in a "price control" environment.
No one, presently is prohibited from manufacturing anything they wish. The present pursuit of cheap labor is driven now by unions, and the endless pursuit of every union, public and private, to forever coerce wages for themselves higher than every other union, reinforced and enabled by the "support" of a corrupt government, seeking power, and exchanging mutual support for votes.
That has enabled most politicians in my lifetime to end their careers infinitely richer than when they started.
Charles Rangel?
Really??
And the hedonist, ignorant "entitled" voter has been perfectly willing to play the endless game unable to grasp that it can't last forever.
There is a limit to everything.
You have never understood the airline-fuel contracts process, have you.
Airline fuel can't be another "just in time" process.
this has been going on since bjclinton forced the H1-b bill in 2000
Thanks for your reply. I am in Red OC, myself. Thanks.
definitely accurate
(says the c/c++ dev that started in 1986 and is now staring at dart...)
You make a good point.
But now oils/fuel has been at half price for 3 months.
Lots of NEW fuel contracts must be getting signed during this period, right?
So I will look forward to a significant drop in airline prices in a few months. Or should I not hold my breath?
Yes, I do understand the basics of the process by which airlines contract for their fuels. They agree to pay a certain price for X number of months, and hope they have made a low bid price.
The contracts for every airline do not start and end at the same time. After many months of lower fuel prices, it’s reasonable to think that SOME airlines have concluded new contracts at lower prices. ...They may not be lowering fares because they were paying MORE for fuel for awhile when the prices were actually lowering, so now they are trying to make up for that.
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