Posted on 07/09/2015 7:20:09 AM PDT by C19fan
The war on the American worker is kicking into a new gear.
Microsoft is laying off an additional 7,800 U.S. workers, on top of the 18,000 it has already terminated. Meanwhile, the software giant is lobbying in Washington for an increase in H1B visas allowing the company to replace these workers with foreigners who are willing to work for far less.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)80% , Chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, responded to the grim news and singled out 2016 presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)80% s (R-FL) I-Squared bill, which Microsoft is pushing for supporting. The bill would triple the number of H1B visas issued in the United States, potentially leaving even more Americans working in the STEM and IT fields jobless.
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I was thinking the same thing too. This is why Trump is resonating out there. Cruz, Walker, Rubio, and the rest all have to do their corporate donors bidding.
I am hoping Ted Cruz sees the light and backs away from this Hi-B Visa deal.
About once a year Bill Gates speaks in the Computer Science complex, and UW broadcasts it.
The American students treat him like a rock star, in spite of the depredations of H-1B.
I will guess that 20% of the CS students, perhaps more, are foreigners paying full tuition.
Once again, the American students seem oblivious to the fact that many of those foreign students will roll straight into a H-1B job after graduation, or will accept paid IT jobs under “internship” or “training” or “work-travel” visas.
Rubio is a Manchurian candidate with serious nation-wrecking ideas.
Companies are using these visas to essentially hire slaves workers (at a higher than minimum wage) while Americans have the flexibility of moving to another company, these immigrant workers are basically tied to that company and will not be in a position to move to a higher paying job. It’s common sense. Restaurants and construction companies want cheap, compliant illegal workers, why wouldn’t tech companies want the equivalent?
They’re not paid cheap...at least not all of them but you have a point about slave labor. They also use H1-B to try to satisfy the EOEC.
H-1B Is Designed to Allow Employers to Pay Foreign Workers Extremely Low Wages - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3306445/posts?page=7#7
That's fine but not true where I work and I know.
Come to think of it one of our H1-B’s left for a different company so I don’t know if they are in fact slaves or not.
Actually there were two, one from Rhodesia (or what was left of Rhodesia) and one from Mexico so it must not be that hard to do among friendly corporations.
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