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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Revoking visas that were granted fraudulently actually IS a legitimate, constitutional use of the executive branch.
Training does. If there isn't a position, the knowledge/training for that position ceases. I think that's where he's going with that.
No, but you are, shall we say, a time limited resource.
Case in point. Colt can’t build any more of the classic Pythons. The guys who knew how to do that level of smithing are either retired or dead.
To make something with that fit and finish again is possible, bit it takes more skill and knowledge than is currently easily available. Those skills died with the men that had them.
The Chamber of Commerce wants American jobs to have a ceiling of $60K and a floor set at the minimum wage, with plenty of illegals to ensure that as many people work at the floor level wage as possible. They don't need to protect lower paying jobs from H1B visa holders because the illegals are there to drive the lower end of the pay scale downwards.
If low end jobs don't pay enough for people to work, then the COC wants them replaced by illegals or wants the government to subsidize cheap wages with the EITC, Obamacare or other public benefits that reduce their costs and reduce the incentives for employees to demand higher wages.
In brief, what the COC wants is a return to feudalism, where the vast majority of employees are indentured servants or serfs.
I don’t know about IT, but let me talk about engineering.
Native born Americans graduating with STEM degrees are having significant issues finding an engineering job. The last one we hired had good grades from a good school, and was unemployed for nine months after graduating with an engineering degree. She worked as a tech at a juice maker, and had to move from the East cost to the Midwest. Many of her classmates either are unemployed or after being unemployed went back for a Masters.
This is with $200K of debt.
Yes. the skills those men had died when those men died. The skills those men had did not die if those men got fired from their jobs, or if someone else was taught the skills.
Eventually we won’t have the workers as the replaced ones “attrite out” due to age; Bill Gates was years ago bemoaning the choice of many young Americans to avoid the tech sector (while he was simultaneously suppressing salaries with foreign workers).
It is hard to convince a teen or twenty year-old to go into the field when it is so clear what is being done to suppress wages/destabilize the job market. FWIW, I see the same thing in the financial fields; a lot of Americans I worked with at banks and other financial institutions have been replaced by Asians (both Oriental and Indian sub-continent).
If those new men took those skills and went back to China, it doesn’t help Colt make a new Python in the US.
The H-1B visa is a quota system. The quickest way to kill this thing is to set the quota to 0, ziltch, nada. Can’t happen soon enough.
Yes. Fine.
But you appear to have missed the point of my original post.
I’ve posted on various threads over the past few years that anyone making $50K or more has forces scrambling furiously behind the scenes to either move the work elsewhere or bring foreigners here to do it. You’re exactly right with the feudalism analogy; our overlords have determined a new (lower) standard of living, and are shunting people into it with various schemes like the H-1B program.
On Asian (American) co-worker was disgusted to see how much some foreigners were being paid (in a financial field); it wasn’t much less than Americans, but they could be regularly worked 60+ hours per week (and the whole benefits arrangement was scaled back). Illegals can’t be used to fill some low-wage jobs (as in fast-food chains, where hiring illegals isn’t an option); instead, they just import masses of illiterate/unskilled LEGAL aliens to do it. I’m shocked at how many bank tellers are foreign, and how many branch managers speak with accents; all of these jobs had been done by Americans in the past.
The EITC, ObamaCare, and SNAP are all designed to force American taxpayers to subsidize the “minimum standard of living” the lords of the feudal manor have set for these invaders.
Biden was reduced to using threats of chains to drive blacks to the voting booth, but I’m glad he did point out that there is no shortage of labor available here (though he can’t expect American employers to basically provide workers from the ‘hood with the whole educational experience they missed from Day One). As NJ faces a steady evacuation of American taxpayers and their employers, there is a small niche for those that can fill the role of “resident Anglo”; correspondence needs top be done by people fluent in English, and we’re literally running out of those (too many young Americans of any color/race can’t do it).
And Cruz wants more H1-Bs.
Cruz wants 500% more H1b visas.
I was surprised when I read the stories recently about life expectancy declining for working class whites.
This was followed, of course, by all the usual bull---- about "irresponsible" behavior regarding drugs and alcohol, as though working class whites today consume anything like the alcohol or cigarettes they did, say, in the 1950's.
The real reason remained unspoken: working class white males who refuse to see their families go on welfare and are desperately trying to stay in the lower middle class are working themselves to death.
When they can no longer do so, because there are no jobs or illness or exhaustion set in, they kill themselves.
Do not participate.
Where, in the original question, was fraud referenced?
I think these companies smuggling MILLIONS of dollars of software through the internet is a bit beyond ‘protectionist policies’.
The corrupt CEOs like Bill Gates LIED to Congress repeatedly and said that there were insufficient skilled candidates in the US to do the work.
They piss on my shoes and tell me it is raining.
That isn’t a level playing field, that is a culture of corruption.
was replaced by a contracted company which supposedly hired H1B workers.
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Just another layer of legal protection for Disney ... they get the cheaper H1b’s but the consultant company certifies that they (not Disney) have a lack of employees with the needed skills. This sounds like a problem best solved with a RICO suit. There is undeniable collusion to avoid legal requirements.
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