Posted on 09/16/2015 8:45:38 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPQ) announced on Tuesday that the company will cut about 10 percent of its 300,000 member workforce, but appears to be moving “forward” with expanding its use of H1-B foreign immigrant visas. [...]
The new job slashing is in addition to the 54,000 job layoffs already taken by HP and are expected to mostly hit workers in North America, according to Bloomberg.
Despite the huge employment shrink, according to the myvisajobs.com website: “Hewlett-Packard filed 2668 labor condition applications for H1-B visa and 815 labor certifications for green card from fiscal year 2011 to 2014. Hewlett-Packard Company was ranked 30 among all visa sponsors.”
Breitbart News reported the February in Obama Administration Just Gave Away a Million more ‘Green Cards’, that the Administration was expanding the 650,000 H1-B visa holders living in the US to offer “green card” U.S. work permits to about 600,000 H1-B spouses and 400,000 children between the ages of 14 to 20.
Carly Fiorina in June warned that the foreign worker program used by Hewlett Packard and other companies “was very different 10 years ago than it is now.” She added, “It’s become an issue, where people are using it as almost an industry. It’s become an issue where it appears that some companies that are abusing that program and asking American workers to train H1-B visa replacements so they can lower wages.”
Fiorina highlighted that there are currently at least 16 different visa programs. [...]
Fiorina added that when it comes to H-1Bs and the other federal programs, “We’ve got to fix the legal immigration system. People have talked about it for 25 years.” [...]
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Why have all huge corporations decided to $h!t on Americans?
iCarly started this wave at HP—Wonder if she’ll be asked about it tonight.
And why do Free Traitors want to help them do it?
This should be illegal.
Rats. Ship. Sink.
Another excellent question to ask Fiorina in tonight’s debate: Did you fire American workers at HP while hiring foreign workers using H1B visas? The truthful answer is “yes”, and the follow up question should be “Why?”
But wait those jobs are being given to the imported FOREIGNERS under H-1B.
When does the revolution begin?
CNN is part of the liberal establishment - which is even worse than the conservative establishment. No way in hell she'll be asked this question.
Pretty simple. Gotta use lower-cost international labor to compete in a global market. The two options are offshoring and H1-Bs. Most sizable companies use both, which means you can’t even compete against other American companies without doing the same.
Carly’s fault!
What you are saying it is over, ball game. Might as well vote foe Sanders right?
"Appears", my behind. I know multiple people in IT who've had to train lower paid imported replacements for essentially their entire departments, including themselves.
H-1B proves the middle class is at war with Fascism, the MSM and the gloBULList Free Traitors™. Wake up America!
You don't "gotta" if that lower-cost international labor is also lower-skill ... which it clearly is, since laid-off Americans are training their Third World replacements (as a condition of getting their severance).
Maybe Trump will bring it up.
ConservingFreedom ~ And why do Free Traitors want to help them do it?
Beats me, let's ask one...
No—I’m saying that’s the current situation re: the market. Publicly held companies are judged by equity analysts on how much they have been able to leverage offshore labor, especially, since it is such a factor in being competitive on costs and pricing.
H1-Bs often come as part of a larger package, with their India-based employers (rather than direct US employers) providing outsourcing and development services that also leverage offshore talent.
H1-Bs are more obvious a target for the US labor market, but less significant than offshoring, which really can’t be stopped without killing the golden goose of the global IT market—of which the US has a largely disproportionate share.
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