Posted on 07/31/2018 9:38:04 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Labor (DOL) announced an agreement Tuesday to work together in cracking down on companies that "discriminate" against U.S. workers by hiring foreign workers.
The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division and the Labor Department will start sharing information on employers, refer issues to the appropriate officials at each department and offer training to each other’s staff under the agreement.
Acting Assistant General John Gore said in a statement that the agreement will help the civil rights division’s “ability to identify employers the favor temporary visa holders over U.S. workers who can do the job.”
“Employers should hire workers based on their skills, experience, and authorization to work; not based on discriminatory preferences that violate the law,” he said.
Rosemary Lahasky, the deputy assistant secretary for DOL’s employment and training administration, said in a statement that sharing the information “will help protect U.S. workers from unlawful discrimination.”
DOJ and DOL say they reached the agreement “to better protect U.S. workers from discrimination by employers that prefer to hire temporary visa workers over qualified U.S. workers.”
President Trump has promoted an “America First” agenda, criticizing companies that move plants out of the U.S. and stoking concerns about immigrants taking American jobs.
Critics have hit Trump over the statements, noting that his own private properties have filed multiple requests to hire foreign workers. The properties hire the workers through the H-2B visa program, which allows American employers to bring foreign workers to the country for temporary, non-agricultural work.
The employers must be able to show there are not enough American workers able or willing to fill the seasonal jobs.
The Trump National Golf Club in Florida asked the Labor Department for permission to hire about a dozen foreign workers this month, BuzzFeed News reported.
Other properties have made similar requests, including Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
Trump has defended the practice, saying in 2015 that it is "very hard to get people in Florida for seasonal jobs."
Successful companies understand that labor is a mere commodity and in many cases fungible.
Take McDonald’s for example.
The shareholders do not care if your order is taken my a human or a machine, the consumer does not care if their order is taken by a human or a machine, the machine does not give a damn if your order is taken by a human or a machine, and the Big Mac does not give a crap who or what takes the order.
In all of that, the McDonald’s worker has to compete against a machine, and the steel worker in Pennsylvania has to compete against the Chinese steel worker.
You mean ,”US citizen.”
Else you are a RINO globalist trip.
Liar.
Companies want to privatize profits, and socialize costs.
They want cheap foreign labor, but they want their assets secure in the US, where that security was paid for with the blood of American citizens.
If they want Indian labor, then they should move to India, and have their assets in Indian banks and the Indian stock market.
Alternately, we can do what Trump has been doing with cheap Chinese crap: have a tariff. You want to buy cheap Indian labor? Fine, but that H1B visa will have a price tag of $100K/year. Buy as many as you want. Help fund the government with it.
If someone is in the country legally and can legally work in the United States, why should a company not be able to hire them for a job that that they are qualified, and why should the federal government dictate who a company must hire?
“Companies want to privatize profits, and socialize costs.”
That is and has always been the fault of the people we elect, and it is our fault that those people are elected.
“Alternately, we can do what Trump has been doing with cheap Chinese crap: have a tariff. You want to buy cheap Indian labor? Fine, but that H1B visa will have a price tag of $100K/year. Buy as many as you want. Help fund the government with it.”
What about the American Auto Worker that is replaced by a robot?
Do you want to tax that robot they same way you tax that Indian labor?
If not, what’s the difference between having your job replaced by an Indian or a robot?
For that matter, should we place a tax on automated checkouts at the grocery store and McDonalds?
Job loses due to automation and displacing through offshoring and importation of labor are totally different things.
The robot doesn't vote, the robot doesn't chain migrate 100 family members, the robot doesn't use taxpayer resources. Is that enough for you?
“Job loses due to automation and displacing through offshoring and importation of labor are totally different things.”
How are they different?
Does it feel better when your house is foreclosed because you lost your job to a machine than it does when your house is foreclosed because you lose your job to offshoring?
The robot doesn't vote, the robot doesn't chain migrate 100 family members, the robot doesn't use taxpayer resources. Is that enough for you?
The guy with the H1B Visa pays taxes.
The robot does not.
And the guy with the H1B Visa does not get to vote.
But also at a rate commensurate with the currently prevailing wage in the US.
And the guy he replaces is on unemployment.
It is also flush with H1Bs. I know.
And what about present federal statutory ban which prevents American workers who have been fired and then replaced by illegal aliens from suing the employer or the coyote?
They are indentured servants, 21st century slaves. But some get a green card and some do become citizens. All of the ones I've known that did that are flaming liberals.
They were flush with H1B’s long before this guy took over.
“And the guy he replaces is on unemployment.”
Just like the guy who gets replaced by a machine.
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