And your source IS ?
Yes, it is. All the employer has to do is tell then H1B worker that if they don’t like the conditions, they will be replaced with someone more compliant.
Yes, but not for the H1B visa holder but for the people whose wages the visa holder is keeping artificially low...and as low as $0.00 which is really more than indentured servitude.
I usually listen to Kuhner in the morning coming from NH to Mass for work. Wish I heard this one today.
H1B’s have been abused horribly. It was not intended to replace existing STEM employees here in the US but with any gov’t scheme the true nature of the program is eventually reviewed.
These companies will eventually realize “you get what you pay for” when they see the quality - or lack there of - of the work these people produce.
They tried it at my work and had us train our replacements then tried to hire us back when it failed. The customers got really pissed off and a lot of business was lost.
H-1B was always a terrible idea.
Its like a second or third rate citizen thingy.. a maid/butler arrangement that appears symbiotic until the lights go out.
I have often wondered whether the H1B law is actually broken in a case such as Disney’s. The law was meant to provide labor in a situation where no skilled citizen labor was available, which would not hold for Disney’s case.
Kind of. A company gets an H-1B and hires Gunga Din from Mumbai to fill the slot. Gunga Din is in the U.S. only because of the visa and he can't move to another job unless that company is willing to get their own H-1B for him. So he either works for the company and enjoys the blessings of America or he gets his butt sent back to India. Pretty near to the definition of indentured servitude.
No horror stories from either. They are both paid very well, comparable to others in their departments. Both have also been recruited for other jobs but like where they are.
H1-B may be a lot of things, most of which screw American workers, but indentured service ain’t one of them. As long as there is some freedom attached to it, it seems at least humane.
If you want to see servitude, see how migrant tomato pickers in Florida are treated - permanent debt to “employers” at beyond usurious rates, being locked in trailers at night to prevent escape, etc.
Many people in IT in large companies were there in the mainframe days when IT truly was a specialty skill. If those workers were loyal company people, they stayed and made their careers at the company - remember, we're talking about the 1980s now. These people continued to add value to the company as their knowledge grew with the company growth. They retrained through the PC revolution, Y2K, and the growth of the Web. They also saw salary inflation as anyone would who stayed with a company for a career.
Today, IT has become a commodity service, but the single-company career IT worker is earning a 30 year employee salary, not an IT salary.
This is what companies are trying to change with H-1B visa workers. They are displacing long-time salaried employees with short-term commodity-wage workers.
-PJ