H1B Work Visas

[Blarg]

This needs to go. We have a hard enough time filling jobs in the US with graduates with technical degrees only to be supplanted by low cost immigrant workers.

 

If there were a shortage of qualified applicants it would be another thing but Southern California Edison is replacing existing US citizens with foreign labor as a cost cutting tool rather than need. Outsourcing has become now replacing workers on grounds. Simply not right.

 

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/workers-654594-edison-committee.html

 

[Blarg]

Disney animation has been overrun with H-1B imports that supplanted animators that went way back. It is affecting tens of thousands of jobs in all industries and it really needs to be shut down.

[Guest]

100% agreed.

[arch stanton]

Yeah this is usually the first or second debate topic. It's a good thing we all worked so hard to neuter the unions.

[Amazing Larry]

Can't we neuter the unions and the HB1 visas?

[arch stanton]

Neutering the unions empowers the forces that want to visas. You tell me.

[Jay]

I don't want to see the program eliminated but the restrictions should be tightened.

[Blarg]

Why not eliminate it? All it was for was to create a cheap labor force for corporations when they had qualified people already in position. We are not Uganda where IT professionals are hard to come by. H-1B is only a giant loophole for abuse it provides no gains for the US.

[gotbeer]

I live near Farmers Insurance's headquarters/telemarketing center.  At the breaktimes, if I had to guess, they are using a lot of HB1 visa's there. 

[wopphil]

Yeah this is usually the first or second debate topic. It's a good thing we all worked so hard to neuter the unions.

How is this a union issue? You can't discriminate against people on the basis of their national origin. If they are lawfully permitted to work, what could a union do to help the American worker? And if a company wants to leave the U.S., what can a union do to stop it?

[Blarg]

Because workers shouldn't be laid off just because you found a source of cheap immigrant labor. Southern California Edison is not leaving, not outsourcing. They are putting qualified US citizens out on the street to bring in a work force on a temporary Visa which when they reach a pay raise status will replaced by a cheaper substitute. There is no fair employment practice going on.

Edited March 19, 2016 by notti

[Jay]

The program should be available for companies who require individuals with highly specialized skill sets and advanced degrees and have been unable to fill positions.

 

I think that would not apply to the Edison case described in the article.

[Blarg]

It doesn't apply at all just like it didn't apply at Disney Animation when they required their animation staff to train their replacements. H-1B needs to be abolished because it is never used for what it was intended for.

[Glen]

Because workers shouldn't be laid off just because you found a source of cheap immigrant labor. Southern California Edison is not leaving, not outsourcing. They are putting qualified US citizens out on the street to bring in a work force on a temporary Visa which when they reach a pay raise status will replaced by a cheaper substitute. There is no fair employment practice going on.

 

 

Yay capitalism.

[Angelsjunky]

Commie.