Posted on 11/05/2015 12:14:57 PM PST by Rusty0604
Technology companies across the country are replacing American employees and “transferring†their knowledge to foreign guest workers, according to Sara Blackwell, an attorney for Disney employees replaced by foreign workers, and Leo Perrero, a former Disney employee.
“Right now all of the technology jobs, 90 percent of them are being filtered to H-1B visa holders here and then off-shoring to other countries. Knowledge transfer is what we’re doing,†Blackwell said during an interview with SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily.
Blackwell argued that technology is the future but that Americans are not the ones getting those coveted tech jobs.
“Twenty-six percent right now of IT college students in America are working in the IT field,†she said. “There is no job security. The pay rate has not changed since like 2000, it’s actually gone down for most people. But they’re off-shoring. We are knowledge transferring. The Americans are transferring our knowledge to these foreign workers. They’re taking it overseas.â€
Specifically Blackwell pointed to what she said are abuses in the H-1B visas system:
The purpose of H-1B is if there is no qualified American then the H-1B person can come over and fill that position because we need them. Well, there are qualified Americans because they’re being fired, but guess what, if this keeps going there aren’t going to be any qualified Americans because we’re training all our knowledge — sending it overseas and we’re training all the H1B workers here and we’re not giving Americans the opportunity to make a decent wage or have a job so America has no future in technology, at this point.
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The Disney worker was replaced by a contracted company which supposedly hired H1B workers. Of course, THAT doesn’t make for juicy writing, so generally is excluded from these stories.
Does that make it OK?
Same difference.
To everybody who has ever lost a job due to outsourcing to an outside company, it is a difficult thing to take, and I empathize with your feelings of betrayal. The lower bidder will generally win the contract, and even if you were an excellent performer in your job it was given to someone else. It has happened to me and to millions of others. I didn’t seek protectionist government policies but rather focused on increasing my own value in a competitive market. Where there is competition for the same resource someone will lose. It is possible to make yourself the resource that others compete to win, that’s where you put your self in the canary seat.
Issues of replacing U.S. workers with foreigners aside, I do not think knowledge works like that.
The exclusion? The employer can lie as much as they want to in their certifications about not replacing Americans and there is nothing the government can do about it. These H1B positions are "exempt" from the certification requirements, although certification is still required.This obfuscation was carefully handcrafted by Congressman paid off by industry.
The average pay for an experienced systems developer in Chicago is $102K.
Do the math.
The other group is taking that knowledge to their home country. The first group is left with the knowledge, but no where to use it.
So when they leave the workforce, it’s gone.
Anyone know if we have the graduates to fill all the open positions to stop the visa infiltrators and knowledge theft? Not that it will happen within the year. Can those visas be revoked by the next prez?
I sure am glad MY brain doesn't work like an etch-a-sketch...
So what you are saying is that we are carefully protecting the moderate to low paying jobs?
bfl
Well said, sir.
Are you hoping for another imperial president?
I don’t know but I remember a while back Biden was trying to calm black people about all the illegals they are letting in, and told them that they were going to train black women from the hood in IT.
They come here for that. They take American ideas home.
Then when we call for tech support we get “Peggy” in Siberia.
Initially, this outside company was hired by merchandising to handle wireless transactions for shops and kiosks. They bid on and won taking over the back stage systems for the hotels, and have slowly taken over every responsibility from the in house group - which still exists, but is limited now to development tasks which will be deployed by an outside company.
I don't entirely blame the workers - management constantly chose price over quality when it came to hardware - cheap routers in rooms were the biggest issue, second came old wiring which they refused to replace as it would cost too much. All of these needed upgrades were completed within days of the new company taking over and complaints dropped to near zero.
So yes, you make yourself needed, you provide quality work, you've got little to worry about from outsourced competition. If you rely upon your union position to guarantee you a job for life, no matter if the job is getting done or not, you're likely going to get outsourced and lose that job. In the end it is simple economics.
“I didn’t seek protectionist government policies but rather focused on increasing my own value in a competitive market.”
It’s “protectionist” to ask that government enforce the existing laws and punish people who are criminally abusing the system???
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