[FormerLurker]

This might be of interest to you..

[RLK]

I'm boycotting Alec Baldwin and Stevan Segal films. I'm boycotting various companies for political/social reasons. It's come to the point there is nobosy left to do business with and I'm Stuck.

[lelio]

Thanks for the post! I can't believe how many companies in Seattle use H1-Bs. I had to narrow down my criteria as I maxed out the number of responses.

[glc1173@aol.com]

H-1(b) Hall Of Shame - companies heavily hiring H-1(b) workers

[Camber-G]

Don't the H1B visa personnel get laid off before citizens ? That's the law, isn't it ?

[FormerLurker]

A bit more info on the H1-B program..

H1B Issues

[nanny]

Thanks for this informative post. I am interested in a certain company, but kept getting an error message. I have bookmarked the site and will go back later and see.

[FormerLurker]

This may just be a topic for another thread, but in case anyone is still reading this thread up to here, there's something that everyone ought to know.

The MAJOR influence behind the push for the H1-B visa flood is the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA). If anyone were to visit their website, they'd see that they are VERY big on pushing for "diversity" in the workplace. Isn't that supposed to be a "plank" on the Democrat platform?

Information Technology Association Of America

[FormerLurker]

This is what I suggest. File a US District Court suit agaist ANY company that you've sent a resume to that hasn't responded that has hired H1-B aliens within the past 24 months. In fact, I'm going to look into the laws and see if there is a federal statute that requires them to hire Americans before they hire aliens. If there is, I'm going to ask for everyone concerned to start filing charges against those companies that have violated the law.

[madfly]

HB1 visa ping

[madfly]

ping

[hedgetrimmer]

Bump this!

[Red Jones]

bump

[Robert Lomax]

Looks to me the Republicans are much to blame for the immigration problem. Hold on to your hat here...I work for the INS and most INS Officers are fed of with the way things are going. For nearly every law to keep illegal aliens out there is a waiver that allows these criminals, illegal to adjust their status and eventually become Americans. I find it interesting that of lately the Republicans have slammed the INS for a myriad of problems that they, the law makers, wrote the laws allowing these problems to fester.

I wish most Americans understood the immigration laws that congressmen write up.

Here's another one. Congressmen are representatives for their constiuants, American citizens. However, you wouldn't believe the aliens that write "our" congressmen who then follow up, and well you already guessed it, ask the INS to approve their petitions.

Enough, I needed to vent.

[Red Jones]

Here's a link to Professor Matloff's research:

http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/itaa.real.html

Matloff's main focus is to document that there is no shortage of 'high-tech' or engineering people in America. He documents meticulously that this idea is a fraud. Matloff also shows convincingly that this H1b will succeed at discouraging young americans from entering these types of work. That is a disaster.

Another aspect of H1b that people forget is that an H1b person has his payroll taxes withheld, but that these taxes don't get deposited into the social security and medicaid funds as with other workers. Instead, all the money goes direct to the home country's government to encourage them to continue educating and training people for the american market. So, for every H1b hired from India the indian government makes about $45,000 that would otherwise go to the social security fund. H1B results in taking about 8 billion a year from the social security fund.

People also forget that H1B includes a lot of workers who are not high-tech and non-software, non-engineering. It includes accountants, doctors, physical therapists and many other categories. Check the database on the link provided above, you'll see cooks in restaurants, personal attendants, horse exercisers, stable attendants and many others. I found a fellow working as a construction manager for a general contractor, he was H1b.

There is no job category that can't have its wages smashed downwards through h1b. FormerLurker you are 100% correct in that we should all vote against all politicians who vote for this program. That means voting against George Bush, voting against 90% of all republicans and democrats both. That is what I'm going to do.

[Red Jones]

I did a search for my city. I found that they had a stucco applicator working for a stucco company as H1B immigrant. I found a bricklayer working for a masonry firm, another h1b. I found a cook working at the Chinese restaurant a block from my house. I found lots of stable attendants. Physical therapists at the hospital nearby.

There are also companies that specialize in hiring h1b's because they have sooo many of them. I found a construction manager working for a general contractor. I found marketing people, accountants, financial analysts, business analysts.

H1B is a sick program. FormerLurker is correct. Look at the link he provides. Look in your state, look at your congressman and your senator that are up for re-election on Tuesday. If the site says this fellow supports h1b, then vote against that politician.

[dark_lord]

There are limited solutions to what we can do as individuals, but here are some suggestions:

1st, write your congressman & Senator. If enough people do that, it will help - in general, but not right away.
2nd, someone who is dedicated, single, with no kids to support could form a nonprofit, get pissed off people to join and pay dues - if 100,000 laid off IT types each kicked in $25, that $2.5M would hire some decent lobbyists. Then lobby directly against the megacorp lobbyists. That is the way to play the game.
3rd, in the mean time, go independent. Hire on as a contractor. If you have good skills you can make $50 - $125 hour, depending on what those skills are. After all, they aren't paying your FICA/FOKA/FUKA whatever, nor your medical/dental/life benefits, and will dump you at the end of the contract - so it is worth it to them to pay you more per hour than you would make as a salaried employee.

[ExpatCanuck]

I'm joining this discussion rather late, and if something akin to what I want to say may have been posted already, I apologize for not reading all the posts.

I recently hired 2 new employees, one a US citizen and one an H1 visa holder. They are both being hired to do the same type of job and are both being paid salaries that are very close in range to one another. We are a full service consulting firm and don't make our money providing only 'bodies'. I think where the abuse is happening is the body shops that hire H1 visa holders at very low rates and then 'farm' them out to other companies at slightly below prevailing rate.

[HamiltonJay]

H1B for the most part has been nothing but a scam from day one....

[discostu]

Hey that's real cool how this thing doesn't weed out for companies that don't exist anymore, sure helps make the problem look huge. Also interesting how it includes every single application by a company, even the renewals, to fluff the numbers.

I like the one you posted a couple of weeks ago that gave state by state numbers. Much more useful.