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To: immigration lady
In the IT sector H1-Bs are used pretty much exclusively to depress the wages of US workers. The US workers are available, and have the skills, at a fair US market price. In this sector the H1-B is an easy out to pay less than the market rate for those skills, putting the lower-priced labor in direct competition with US labor.
190 posted on 03/15/2006 10:52:54 AM PST by thoughtomator (Nobody would have cared if the UAE wanted to buy Macy's...)
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To: thoughtomator

no one is paying "market" price for any services since 9/11, dude.

I worked in the IT industry for many years - doing guess what - immigration. We brought in people from India on H's. Their wages were higher than the American workers doing the same job because of the prevailing wage issue. The salaries for the US workers were already depressed B-4 the H-1B's were involved. Trust me, the only reason the H's were getting paid what they were was because the law required that they be paid a certain amount. There is no law requiring that American workers be paid the higher of the prevailing wage or actual wages. That never set right with me.


204 posted on 03/15/2006 2:01:14 PM PST by immigration lady
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