Posted on 07/26/2018 2:38:33 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever
The H-2B visa-worker program imports roughly 66,000 seasonal workers each year, allowing seasonal companies to lower wages for American seasonal workers and for year-round staff and supervisors.
The new amendment will allow CEOs to hire H-2B workers from the two prior years without counting them under the 66,000 annual cap. That legal trick will give CEOs a population of up to 198,000 H-2B workers to help lower wages for a larger number of Americans even though wages are climbing very slowly in the current good economy, and many younger Americans are far worse off than their parents.
The proposed H-2B population is huge it is roughly equal to the number of new jobs added in a good month.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Vote the traitors out of office.
What part of “hire AMERICAN workers” doesn’t the House Appropriations Committee understand?
Sounds like another step by the GOP in its drive to lose the House in November.
Pffft! They will never stop destroying this country.
End welfare. Stop importing labor. Not difficult.
“Sounds like another step by the GOP in its drive to lose the House in November.”
Every rat voted for this so how does it make sense to vote for them?
People, this is what happens when the National Education Association dumbs down our educational system.
Certainly Americans should be hired but recruiters cannot find enough employees. Can’t pass drug tests, not qualified or are whiny snowflakes are the main complaints. A friend’s daughter just came to the US on a work visa.
Well...ain’t this some silly BS...
Stop it. Just STOP IT.
Seriously, folks, if you are not on the phone to your elected representative AT ALL LEVELS about this crap, you need to rethink your ‘activism’.
Can Trump kill this treason?
That’s why it is known as the STUPID PARTY.
How many of the designated 200,000 H-1 Visa Workers are registered to VOTE?
Ryan could not destroy the US one way has now doing it thru DHS funding .
Pure evil
How much education does it take to operate a leaf blower? Or bus tables at Trump’s hotel?
It’s certainly an increase in DOCUMENTED workers. But would like to know what increase in ACTUAL foreign workers this is.
I assume not much since illegals are everywhere.
This is ALL about corporate America driving down/keeping down the wage base.
Sundance has an interesting article about this:
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