Posted on 05/19/2015 11:42:06 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
.....Disney, Southern California Edison and most recently Fossil Group have together fired hundreds of American tech workers and forced them to train their foreign replacements, many of whom were flown in specifically to take their job.
....On their last day of employment, he and the other replaced workers were asked to turn over their badges, their Disney season passes, and their laptops and then asked to leave.... “It was just a complete shock that you could do that in this country,” he said.
....... “It’s just so humiliating and so anti-American. It’s just, it’s just terrible. It’s just awful.”
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is the only top GOP 2016 contender even talking about limiting the flow of guest workers into the country. (RELATED: Where Cruz Stands With Rubio Against Walker On Immigration)
Rubio’s “I-squared” bill would triple the number of temporary guest workers businesses could bring into the country every year, and allow for a virtually unlimited number of university-based green cards.
The big businesses backing this bill and clamoring for more guest workers insist they can’t find enough Americans willing or able to fill certain “high-skilled” jobs. Rubio obviously agrees, and has argued more guest workers and immigration generally will result in more jobs for Americans.....
“It’s basically a quest for cheap labor,” Norm Matloff, a computer science professor at the University of California Davis, told TheDCNF. “The abuse of H-1B pervades the entire industry. They all could find american workers if they wanted to, but they want cheap labor and they want immobile labor.”
“Its only purpose is to please the corporate interests that are very heavy campaign contributors,” he added. “That is literally the bottom line.”
The ex-Disney employee concurred, calling the notion of a shortage “completely insane,” given his experience. “There’s not a shortage of IT workers but all the jobs are vanishing,"........
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
I don’t like Rubio’s policies or his speaking style.
My wife and I turned off the TV when he spoke during the last convention. We couldn’t stomach it. We just can’t stand his staccato, over emotional delivery.
I’m starting to wonder how many immigrants are a good number for Marco Rubio. Does Marco Rubio want 300 million new immigrants? Or does Marco Rubio want a billion new immigrants? Marco Rubio is dodging the question because he won’t tell us how many immigrants he wants.
If you had you would know it doesn't come close to paying as much as your salary was.
Just the other day Michael Savage was lamenting the state of American politics in that there is only “one” political party. When was the last time we heard a pubbie go on the attack against Obama and the rest of the RATS?
I’m not totally against the concept of an H1B visa worker if there are strictly enforced rules that control them.
1) The employer must provide a job description that includes substantive qualifications and requirements for the position;
2) The employer must provide written proof of where they attempted to hire US workers, why those interviewed weren’t hired, and whether or not the position being contemplated is filled already; and
3) They have not coerced a current employee to take a buyout, fired him/her with cause, or to train an in-country H1B visa new hire for that position.
They don’t want to have the employee they are sending to the scrap heap to be able to claim unemployment because the company’s experienced rate for UIC affects their UIC premiums. They’d much rather coerce you in to resigning or trump up some excuse for with-cause termination.
Finally, for every company that has over the national average of H1B visa employees, they should be assessed a penalty tax or fine. You take away the greedy corporate motive and you stop this foolishness.
I got called a “troll” the other day for posting the exact same thing and linking two articles! ;)
Cruz is going to shove “pathways” too.
Now my posting rights are “screened”.
Gotta love FR!
Walt Disney, we’re glad we knew you, but the pencil-pushing yes-men have taken over your company and now every storyline comes from the soul of the soulless.
There’s the “concept” and then there are the facts.
I think the “facts” upon which you rely are “policy”, and they can most certainly be changed given the right environment that isn’t rabidly liberal hell-bent on destroying this country solely for votes.
Whenever you hear "jobs Americans will not do" remember to add the unspoken "... at the crummy wages we want to pay" at the end.
This is fundamentally evil in my opinion. Graft, greed, subversion, and intentionally deceptive, not to the government and its policies but to the American people.
The government that allows this has perverted the Constitutional intent of general safety and welfare for the public (citizens) and supplanted with corporate greed.
I’ve had three H1B employees (or had been). Weren’t worth a crap after that period when they got their green cards and went on to become citizens. They were always on the lookout on how to game the system, max out benefits and payments as much as they could, and immediately started bringing in relatives to continue the whole process.
In the video you cited, this is the problem of the government not enforcing the intent of the law. They intentionally are sacrificing our general welfare for votes.
That is an overgeneralized question. You need to be more specific.
You need to differentiate between legal permanent resident visas(green card) and temporary visas.
When you say temporary visas you need to differentiate between student, tourist, and work visas and recognize that a temporary visa might be a seasonal visa.
Then, is the temp work visa a H2A ag worker visa, H2B non-ag worker, or possibly an H1B Professional and Technical visa. But the H1B is a dual use visa. It starts as a temp visa, but if the immigrant can get a sponsor, he can turn it into a permanent visa. Then you have to look at the type of job. Is he a software programmer or a bilingual biology teacher.
And what is the quota? Congress is supposed to vary the quota in accordance with the economy. When the economy expands, the quota should rise and when the economy contracts, the quota should fall.
So looking at this H1B visa, during the IT boom in the 1990s, the quota rose to 190,000. When that boom ended, the quota fell to 50,000. When the economy recovered under Bush, they tried to raise the quota but the immigration hardliners blocked them. Then in 2007 the economy started to contract and collapsed in 2008, so nobody needed H1B workers. Now, the economy has slowly improved and they want to raise the quota.
Nobody enforces anything it's the honor system.
Not only is that illogical but it doesn't even pass the laugh test.
Nauseating. These SOBs should be taken out and shot.
And that’s the problem...this current government, heck probably past ones too only care about campaign contributions and new votes they can get it seems.
Does anyone get as aggravated as I do when you call an 800 number for Tech Support or some other business transaction and you can hardly understand the guy on the other end of the line. And to top it all off, he tells you his name is Chuck. YEAH RIGHT! Someone told me that you can request to speak to someone based in America, and they have to transfer you. Anyone know if that is a fact?
I’m sure you are correct DD. But, I lived in Michigan for 10 years in the 70s and 80s and I know the laid off auto workers drew 98 percent of their salary. For real.
That's not unemployment alone. That includes money from the auto company and the Union.
I know what you mean (but don’t know the answer about requesting an American). Even when you get an American (not for tech stuff, but general help with cable or something), it is often one who would have NEVER gotten a job on the phone twenty years ago. I’m telling you, they are running out of Americans to take low-paying jobs (probably because we are rapidly running out of Americans in general); get used to third-rate service in any case where you have to deal with a low-wage worker. I barely eat fast food anymore, but when I did the orders would be wrong (50/50 in my favor) a lot.
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