Posted on 10/31/2015 8:29:54 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Leading Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has asked Disney to hire back every one of the workers they replaced with cheaper foreign IT workers on H-1 B visas largely from India.
"If I am President, I will not issue any H-1B visas to companies that replace American workers and my Department of Justice will pursue action against them," he told Breitbart News when asked about reports that about 250 Disney workers were forced to train their foreign replacements.
Mr Trump said lobbyists write the rules to benefit the rich and powerful and accused rival Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio of being in the pay of Silicon Valley CEOs.
"They buy off Senators like Senator Marco Rubio to help them get rich at the expense of working Americans by using H-1B visas-so called "high tech" visas-to replace American workers in all sorts of solid middle class jobs."
Mr Trump also called on Mr Rubio to rescind his sponsorship of a bill for expanding the H-1B programme and "return the money he has received from Silicon Valley CEOs and to donate the money to a charity helping unemployed Americans whose jobs Rubio has helped to destroy."
Mr Trump's comments came as two former Disney employees alleged that they were forced to train their Indian replacements as the entertainment group sought to bring in cheaper foreign workers on H-1 B visas.
David Powers and Leo Perrero who worked at Disney World told WWSB ABC 7, a local Florida TV station that shortly after "a great performance review," a VP invited them into his office and told them they were being laid off.
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What do you mean? The GOPe says these are jobs that American’s won’t do.
That won’t go good with the gope or dems. They want to replace the US population with more compliant and controllable people from countries where rights are extremely limited, and where the government runs everything.
Yeah, that’s what hey say.
Agree with you. Cruz's support of increasing H1B's is exactly what stops me from supporting him over Trump.
Well, that and Trump has called "Gun Free Zones" KILLING FIELDS which I and many others here on FR also do.
For the last about 10 years now, I've watched as my employer and former employer have been steadily replacing I.T. workers with offshore H1B's from India.
The Indian's get shipped in, work side by side with those they're replacing, then go back to India and take the work with them.
Meantime, an American I.T. worker who's frankly much higher skilled than the Indian's replacing them get a meager severance package and out the door they go.
Two things I know to be true after the last 10 years:
1. American I.T. workers have a much broader set of skills than their H1B replacements. To replace one American worker, multiple H1B's are required. Indian workers typically have one skill, perhaps two and are "highly specialized" (which is a nice way of saying they know one or two technologies tops.) What this means is that when an outage occurs or upgrades are required, MULTIPLE H1B's are required to do the job that ONE American I.T. worker performed.
That's not efficient, and it's not cost effective. Anyone who's been exposed to the costs behind replacing American I.T. workers with H1B's knows full well that over the last 10 years, rates for H1B's have gone up exponentially. Additionally, Indian workers are in such high demand back "home", the outsourcing companies such as Patni, InfoSys, etc.. are often stealing workers from each other paying higher and higher fees to those they're "stealing." Of course this drives rates up in America, and of course it means any "cost efficiencies" are long gone due to the transitory nature of H1B's in India and the constant re-training/re-familiarization that occurs as they skip from job to job. Look like the Tech Bubble & Y2K to you? In many ways the same thing is happening here.
2. In the environments I've been in (Financial Services the last 12 years now...) American I.T. workers far more often than not have a deep understanding of the BUSINESS PROCESSES that are supported by the technologies they implement and HOW they're implemented. H1B's don't have a clue 99% of the time. Their mentality is simply it's broke, make it not broke.
Because they don't understand the BUSINESS PROCESSES being supported by the technology and how its implemented, they often cause outages to be longer in duration, which costs the bank more in downtime.
Again, not very cost efficient and highly short-sighted by companies that use H1B's and are replacing their own American I.T. workers.
Why not comment on the H-1B visas, which affect so many Americans!
yes! and indians are either M,H, or C. Do not know % of M.
University of Houston Indian Chancellor has turned U of H into an Indian colony.
:)
He feigns ignorance on the subject. I don’t trust him either.
So this is spin over Illegal Vs Legal and Cruz supports LEGAL
On a thread about a company that illegally fired American workers to hire foreigners, breaking the H1B laws in the process, you stated you would just hire the most qualified. I asked if that meant you didn’t care about legal status to be hired.
Clarifying whether a logical connotation applies is hardly rambling.
Cruz has indicated he does want to increase H1Bs, although I have never personally researched the 500%.
Then you should probably learn the truth about a few things.
First, the increase in H1B visas that Cruz supported was an amendment to try to either derail or partially fix the odious "Gang of 8" bill that the GOPe was trying to pass to give amnesty. Cruz has never supported such a proposal as a standalone bill.
Second, you do understand that Trump supports bringing millions of immigrants back into the country, after he deports them, right? And that he supports keeping foreign students here after they graduate, allowing them to compete for American jobs. And that in 2012, he considered Romney's stance on immigration to harsh. And with regard to guns, Trump has supported an "assault weapons" ban and longer waiting periods for before you can get a gun as recently as 2012.
So I can understand why you might like what Trump is saying today. Just know that many of the positions he takes today are fairly recent conversions for him.
Can’t these Indians go work in their casinos?
Pray America wakes
And I said of course there is a delineation between legal and illegal
There must be SOME kind of labor law(s) to prevent this
Agreed. I was clarifying why I asked the question.
From what I've read they were also lead on and told they could apply for other jobs within Disney. As it turns out almost nobody found another job, but it would have been incentive to stick it out. They didn't expect Disney would have lied so blatantly I guess.
Laws protecting workers haven't exactly been a priority with Congress for the past few decades. Just the opposite. The push has been to weaken labor laws and not strengthen them.
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