Turns out Ted Cruz wants to raise the H-1B cap by 500%.
http://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=137
Training foreign workers to do the job you just lost. Wow - can’t get much more ‘in your face’ than that.
Ah, more Obama economy bad news.
I really want to know the answer to that question.
H-1B visas were supposed to be about jobs looking for workers, not workers looking for jobs.
The original purported need was during the dot com boom, when web-based programming was all the fad and businesses didn't want to wait for trained-up internal employees to meet the need. They demanded H-1B visa workers who could come here and immediately be productive.
That demand has since passed, and programming skills are commodity now. Employers no longer have the excuses of an immediate unfulfilled need.
This Department of Labor PowerPoint presentation The Employment of Non-Immigrants on H-1B Visas clearly says that H-1B visas are not to be used to displace American workers.
The language is clear that a company has to make a good-faith effort to find similarly qualified American workers. In Disney's case, the qualified American workers were already on the job.
-PJ
When they first get here(this one from Pakistan) they go thru the topees bar alcohol binge thing. That takes about 6 months. After that if they haven't totaled three cars and been arrested 5 times you might have a decent worker.
I don’t think Walt would be pleased.
American Enterprise Institute, for every additional 100 H-1B workers, 183 jobs....
I don’t know how they fabricated these numbers.
The short-range goal of businesses is to save money. The short-range tragedy is the loss of jobs to better-qualified Americans. The long-range danger to America is going to be the eroding of our tech expertise, as people just stop going the STEM route in their education.
The only way to get me into a Disney facility is to kill me and then drag my body inside.
Fossil, a fashion watchmaker, said it would lay off more than 100 technology employees in Texas this year, transferring the work to Infosys. The company is planning “knowledge sharing” between the laid-off employees and about 25 new Infosys workers, including immigrants, who will take jobs in Dallas. Fossil is outsourcing tech services “to be more current and nimble” and “reduce costs when possible,” it said in a statement.
Among 350 tech workers laid off in 2013 after a merger at Northeast Utilities, an East Coast power company, many had trained H-1B immigrants to do their jobs, several of those workers reported confidentially to lawmakers. They said that as part of their severance packages, they had to sign agreements not to criticize the company publicly.
A bitterly funny note:
In late November, this former [H-1B-replaced Disney] employee received his annual performance review, which he provided to The New York Times. His supervisor, who was not aware the man was scheduled for layoff, wrote that because of his superior skills and “outstanding” work, he had saved the company thousands of dollars. The supervisor added that he was looking forward to another highly productive year of having the employee on the team.
The employee got a raise. His severance pay had to be recalculated to include it.
How much of this is because the headquarters of these companies are tied to the train wreck that is California?
It seems to me that you’ve got some sort of apocalypse going on out there with drought and obscenely high rent. If they want to cut their costs, job one would be to move their operations to a more hospitable state. That seems much more reasonable than to elevate global warming to a religion and go all dystopian with having to train the world at the expense of the USA.
I don't see that training plan working out too well.
This should be a crime.
Disney performed a slight-of-hand to eliminate a chunk of their IT to then outsource to a firm of H1-Bs. This would be illegal if Disney did this, itself.
It should be illegal to do it this way, as well.
So how’s that hope and change working out for all you liberal Obama voters working at Disney?
Remember: it’s racist to complain about immigrants and our open borders. :)
The Communists are further reproached with desiring to abolish countries and nationality.
The working men have no country. We cannot take from them what they have not got. Since the proletariat must first of all acquire political supremacy, must rise to be the leading class of the nation, must constitute itself the nation, it is so far, itself national, though not in the bourgeois sense of the word.
-The Communist Manifesto, Chapter 2
This is from the NY Times.
I wouldn’t trust anything they say.
And they quote a professor from ‘Howard University’, a hotbed of liberalism even less trustworthy than the source of this crap.
Think there might be a few badly trained replacements at Disney in the near future?