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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Another layer of legal protection? For what? For expanding slightly the role that HCL Technologies has had operating all of the back stage communications, resort hotel management, WIFI provider, etc?
The attitude among American corporate management that IT is a generic, non-critical business service like landscaping or housekeeping is impossible to fix.
We just had a local resident join the growing number of people jumping off the George Washington Bridge; we have a growing number of cases with people walking in front of trains and such over the past few years. The fact is there has been no recovery here in the northeast (in fact we haven’t hit bottom yet), and every time you see news of layoffs (as companies flee the high-tax states here) that means hundreds of families ruined by foreclosed homes - there are simply fewer and fewer jobs left that would allow one to stay in this area (due to those same costs). Even working two full-time McJobs (often the only work available) will never replace the salaries and benefits enjoyed by those of us still working jobs from the “before-times” (who have it hard enough already).
Our youngest and brightest are streaming out of the state; I suspect many of those dying prematurely are those stuck with underwater mortgages who have no escape. If they don’t kill themselves outright, they drag it out with drugs and/or alcohol; heroin use and DUIs have never been so high in my memory (and I’ve been here my whole life).
Trump laid out in his plan that the H1b be paid the same as American workers. That would cut down employer motive for hiring them.
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.
How is your comment relevant a story of US workers being replaced by foreigners who are only to work here if we lack the skills to fill the jobs.
It does not matter if it is a contractor to Disney using foreign workers to replace employed Americans in those jobs or if it is a Disney direct hire of foreigners to do work Americans are qualified to do. They are breaking the law.
This is an issue with the H1-B workers that nobody ever seems to mention. Technology workers learn on the job. Right now, those jobs are overwhelmingly going to workers from other countries. While these people are being employed in vast numbers, the American talent pool is growing smaller and smaller.
I remember when we were told over and over again that we needed illegals to keep social security funded. They just raided social security.
It’s the context of the discussion. Nobody would be talking about revoking the visas if companies were not skirting the law and fraudulently obtaining them.
There was no context for revoking. That was my point.
It’s obvious, in the context of the discussion, what the reason would be.
Please enlighten me. What is the obvious reason?
Companies are only allowed to use H1-B visas to bring in foreign workers when there are no native workers who can fill the role, but they are actually using them to replace their existing native workers. In most cases, the native workers are being forced to train their foreign replacements. H1-B applications in those circumstances are fraudulent.
You might want to look into the H1-B loopholes. As with so many governmental programs, it’s a complex system that allows those with the”right” connections/situations to legally skirt what we are told the rules are.
I’d agree with you if it was Americans competing against Americans, but it’s not. I don’t think foreigners who are willing to work for minimum wage should be allowed to replace Americans, if that makes me nativist, so be it...
Ed
I'd agree with you if it was Americans competing against Americans, but it's not. I don't think foreigners who are willing to work for minimum wage should be allowed to replace Americans, if that makes me nativist, so be it...
Government protecting politically favored groups from competition by other Americans is wrong. Government protecting America from Third World standards of living is one of its core functions.
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