H1Bs are indentured servants - paid sub-par wages and unable to negotiate for better or leave the employer they’re enslaved to.
If we want more skilled labor, raise the cap on regular visas.
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That is a load of BS, unless you consider the $150,000 salaries some of the younger chemical scientists are making at various pharma cos. You thinkg Eli Lilly wants to pay six figures to someone who isn’t a citizen and might leave Indianapolis to go home? Much chaeper turnover to get an American kid—the problem is, there aren’t enough.
Thanks for replying twice. It’s not BS.
I’m very sorry PharmCo, or TechCo, doesn’t wish to pay full price for a worker on a regular visa who ‘might’ choose to go home even though he’s on a track to citizenship. It’s much more secure for the company to have a worker who *must* work for you and cannot leave for another company, whose H1-B visa expires in 6 years and whose chance of getting a better visa is entirely dependent on the company’s good will. I weep for the poor CEOs who import slave labor on one hand and cry about how young Americans aren’t lining up to join the field with the other.
What besides “indentured servant” describes a worker who is bound to his employer for years? I’ve been in the trenches with these guys and seen how their companies treat them, the crazy demands put on them and how their companies shaft them after years of overwork.
I don’t mind filling a labor shortage a bit, but do it with regular visas, not 21st century slaves.