Posted on 05/06/2019 2:57:50 PM PDT by zeestephen
Eleven Americans explain how Big Tech’s cheap foreign labor cost them their livelihoods.
(Excerpt) Read more at cis.org ...
>The American workers need to learn useful skills to compete.
No sentence is truer. I work in tech, and it is a matter of working hard and keeping the skill sets up to date. Complacency is one of the largest enemies to our workforce.
Most here won't recall but The President during the campaign lamented what a shame it was for all these brilliant students to have to go home after graduation, we need to figure a way to keep them here. Guess he figured out how.
And it shows.
Hard to compete when corporations skip paying taxes they would have to pay to hire US citizens.
Not a skill in the world can replace th he trillions in taxes saved by corporate crronyism.
H1-B is a fraud - I work in consulting, some are smart but most can’t speak business English.
What a colossally stupid thing to say. The only skill the people in this article lack is the willingness to work for a fraction of their current salary.
I thought reply 4 was stupid. Then I read yours.
“Hard to compete when corporations skip paying taxes they would have to pay to hire US citizens.”
That certainly is not fair and that loophole should be closed.
To work in China, you need to apply for a Z-visa. This visa is a rigorous selection process that [1] determines whether or not you have the skills that would benefit China, and [2] Whether or not the companies that hire you will not displace Chinese citizens.
Essentially, there are a number of things that they do, and all are interesting. Some key points of note and offered for your consideration...
[1] Minimum wages for a foreigner to work in China must be 4x that of a local Chinese worker in the same field.
[2] Criminal background check, and a point system that determines a person’s value.
[3] Constant monitoring and registration requirements similar to that of which America has for sex offenders.
To work in China, you must be an “expert”. This is a a process that determines your value compared to local Chinese. The role of the Chinese government is to ensure the social stability of the nation, and that the Chinese people and their interests are always put first.
Why can’t the United States do the same?
I feel ya, Brother.
Even better when you get interviewed by someone, who is up front and downright *perky* when they tell you that they expect you to give them NOTHING less than to match the foreign workers on both hours-worked, and unquestioned availability on both time and downward flexibility on pay.
As one said (and which I eventually used in a poem):
“Ya gotta be willing to hustle harder and sacrifice more, and above all, see these challenges as exciting!”
No, you have to be willing to organize and fight as hard as possible to stop these horrible abuses.
F*** working yourself to poor health just so you can afford rent and never buy a house.
Everybody always focuses on Tech. It goes much deeper than Tech. I can tell you the banking industry is just chocked full of cheap H1b visa holders who undercut Americans on wages and who take the place of what should be Americans in those roles.
The process to get a visa to work in Switzerland was similar in effect to the process you describe for China. I not only had to provide evidence of my advanced education and clearance letters from the local police for me and all family members, but my employer had to show that the job I was being hired for could not be performed by a Swiss citizen.
I’m sure many countries have similar high standards for jobs requiring education and skills so that they can protect their own citizens. Supposedly the H1B visas are supposed to work in a similar fashion, but over the past 20 years the abuses are rampant. It is not a question of importing people to fill a job for which there is not enough local talent - it has become a total cost cutting system displacing highly educated Americans with low wage foreigners.
Thanks zeestephen.
This is a knife that can cut both ways. I’m starting an offshore company in Latin America with the goal of taking business from India. When he dust settles I’ll be in a nice tropical setting much of the year.
These days, with skill set demands changing daily, keeping up is the equivalent of a dog chasing it’s tail.
There is a very easy solution to the H-1B visa problem.
I would let businesses have as many H-1B visas as they want. At a cost of 1 million dollars per visa. Renewable yearly.
How many low wage foreigners will they hire then? For that matter, how many high wage foreigners will they hire?
The cost of a H-1B is neither tax deductible nor refundable.
I saw several buildings in Redmond go from 60% American to 60% Indian in 4 years. Thousands and thousands.
I point blank tell college kids to avoid any programming that can be offshored to a guy in a grass hut.
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