Of course they use the program just like their competitors do, to enhance their bottom line. They do not have to make payments for social security, medicare, unemployment (all onerous regulations in their opinion), or retirement.
Unions hogtie companies down the road and affect their bottom lines, and that is why they fear them. If you had bothered to even read the article you would have learned that unions are turning their efforts towards Silicon Valley, because it is such a rich environment. In fact, the unions themselves privately support the H-1B visa program because it generate fear among the American workers there, thus giving the unions an in with the American workers.
I take it chess was never your game.
This is a total script-flip. I said the Silicon Valley *abuses* the H1-B program (in addition to the visa holders themselves!), NOT that they fear the H1-B visa.
The reason I disdained the article was that unionization of a nuts-and-bolts factory, even *if* physically located geographically within Silicon Valley, is not likely to make significant inroads into the software industry: H1-Bs are loved because they are at the mercy of the employer's good graces, and can neither transfer nor strike...and the preponderance and/or threat of H1-Bs mean even the remaining US citizen programmers have comparatively little leverage.
Not to mention the famous old commercial from EDS (Ross Perot's old company) talking about how managing programmers was like herding cats.
Incidentally, I saw your response to @central_va...I see that you claimed to be vociferously against H1-Bs. But your initial posts on this thread, continue to give very much the opposite impression.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend.