NOT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!
The SCE workers
rightly place the culpability
squarely on SCE executives, the president, and
Congress. One worker simply said, "Shame on
Edison for doing this and shame on our politicians
for enabling it."
squarely on SCE executives, the president, and
Congress. One worker simply said, "Shame on
Edison for doing this and shame on our politicians
for enabling it."
THERE’S NOT ONE TECH BILLIONAIRE OUT THERE THAT ISN’T PUSHING
HARD FOR OBAMA’S AMNESTY MERELY BECAUSE IT WILL ALSO HAND THEM UNLIMITED VISAS
TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED BY HIRING
NON-AMERICANS!
The work that the 400 SCE IT employees do isn't
disappearing, instead it and their jobs are being
taken over by foreign guestworkers here on H-1B
visas.
disappearing, instead it and their jobs are being
taken over by foreign guestworkers here on H-1B
visas.
March 16, 2015, 05:00 pm
Outsourcing in
America
By Ron Hira
You've spent twenty
plus years loyally working in Information Technology (IT) for Southern
California Edison, and eighteen months ago your boss tells you that they are
going to study outsourcing but not to worry, "your position is safe."
On the one hand you are worried because you know many stories of American IT workers
losing their jobs to outsourcing, but on the other you feel comforted that
you've been loyal to SCE and provide a critical service. Then eight months ago
they tell you that they are outsourcing most IT functions and that they want
you, get this, to train your guestworker replacement. If you say no, SCE will
terminate you with cause and you would lose not only a severance package but
also eligibility for unemployment insurance. This is the common story I heard
from many workers at SCE.
The work that the
400 SCE IT employees do isn't disappearing, instead it and their jobs are being
taken over by foreign guestworkers here on H-1B visas. Those guestworkers are
employed by the two leading India-based outsourcing firms, Tata Consultancy
Services and Infosys.
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The SCE workers are wondering: "Why should I lose my job
when the work still needs to be done? Why is the government doing this to me and
my family?"
Adding to the
injustice of losing their jobs, the SCE workers are being forced to do
something that is so common in the industry it is a term of art: “knowledge
transfer,” an ugly euphemism that means being forced to train your own foreign
replacement. The SCE workers are, "demoralized; in disbelief; beyond furious;
down in the dumps; feeling anguish; depressed; feeling dehumanized; feeling
humiliated; worrying about the future; worrying about paying the bills."
The SCE workers
rightly place the culpability squarely on SCE executives, the president, and
Congress. One worker simply said, "Shame on Edison for doing this and
shame on our politicians for enabling it."
H-1B visas are
temporary work permits issued by the U.S. government that are good for up to
six years. The intent is for these visas to be used only when an
American worker cannot be found. In fact, the U.S.
Department of Labor states, "The Immigration and
Nationality Act (INA) requires that the hiring of a foreign worker will not
adversely affect the wages and working conditions of U.S. workers comparably
employed.”
In practice, the
H-1B visa has been used for years to undercut American workers with lower-wage,
and often lesser-skilled, workers brought in from overseas. How does this
happen? Congress sets the wage floors for H-1Bs, and it has set it far below
market wages. And the Department of Labor has chosen not to investigate the
rampant abuse of the program. As a result, over the past decade, outsourcers
like Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys have become the dominant users. Just
over the past four years, Tata and Infosys received more than 33,000 new H-1B
visas. That's 33,000 jobs lost due to those two companies alone. They use the
program to replace American workers domestically while using their H-1B
workforce stationed in America to facilitate the transfer of work and jobs to
India. These are not immigrants in waiting, the firms sponsor virtually none of
their H-1B workers for permanent residence (greencards). Instead of a way to
fill skills gaps, the H-1B program has become a way to suppress wages and pad
profits.
The practice of
replacing American workers with cheaper H-1B guestworkers is widespread. It is
so endemic in the H-1B program that last year the majority of the visas
went to outsourcing companies. Indian Government officials have dubbed the H-1B
as the "Outsourcing Visa."
Why do companies
replace Americans with foreign guestworkers? The SCE workers rightly believe the
motivation is "pure greed." According to a recent consulting report
commissioned by SCE, the typical SCE IT worker is earning $110,000 while
government records show Tata pays its H-1B workers $66,000 and Infosys pays
$71,000. The savings go beyond just wages. H-1B workers have very limited
bargaining power since the employers control their work permit. It should
come as no surprise that H-1B workers are
easily exploited. Those significant cost savings far outweigh
the one-time H-1B legal and administrative fees of about $5,000 per
worker.
The SCE workers I
spoke to have a message for Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez: use your statutory
authority to investigate and stop the H-1B abuse. If you find abuse debar those
employers from using the program.
And their message
to Congress is: close the loopholes that allow employers to use H-1Bs for cheap
labor. Given all of these facts, you would think that Congress would be hard at
work fixing the H-1B program. Instead, many are moving in the other direction,
writing legislation to triple the number of H-1Bs while doing nothing to close
the loopholes. The Skills Visa Act, introduced by Reps. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.)
and Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), in the last Congress, and the bipartisan I-Squared
Act recently introduced by the Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Amy Klobuchar
(D-Minn.) would threaten tens of thousands more middle class jobs. However,
Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) have been working for a
decade to fix the program. They propose: raising the H-1B wage floors to the
average wage; ensuring that American workers have a first and legitimate shot
at jobs; and, ensuring that American workers aren't being replaced by H-1Bs.
This would mean the H-1B program is being used for truly skilled workers and
not simply cheap labor.
Hira is an
associate professor of public policy at Howard University, a research associate
with the Economic Policy Institute, and co-author of the book Outsourcing
America
OPEN BORDERS AND
ENDLESS HORDES OF IMMIGRANTS POURING IN IS ONLY ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED
To
cite just one example, if there is a shortage of U.S. engineers, are 1.5
million Americans with engineering degrees either unemployed or working in
other fields? In all too many cases, U.S. tech companies prefer foreign workers
on temporary visas because they are cheaper and more exploitable than
Americans.
SEN. JEFF SESSION:
One of the very few in the LA RAZA-dominated U.S. senate speaking out for
Americans (Legals).
Sessions said he had to push back a little against
the likes of Gates and other companies like Merck and Hewlett Packard that push
for more guest-worker visas while slashing jobs for American workers. He
lamented that the country has the lowest workplace participation rate
since the 1970s and emphasized that "we need to create jobs for Americans
first, before we bring in foreign workers to take those jobs."
America… NO LEGAL NEED APPLY!
One-way trips to U. S. frustrate immigration authorities
An estimated
4.4 million people entered the country on legal visas and have never left.
Officials often have no way of knowing whether they do.
THE ENTIRE BASIS OF AMNESTY IS TO KEEP WAGES
DEPRESSED.
“Tech tycoons like Larry Ellison
and Mark Zuckerberg have gotten rich while wages in the technology sector have
stagnated.”
Tech firms fight hiring rules in immigration bill
Tech firms fight hiring rules in immigration bill
Americans
would "be shocked to know that most of the H-1B visas … are going to
outsourcing companies," Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said during a recent
hearing.
IBM
OUTSOURCES
Whether it’s through the exporting of jobs overseas or the
importing of foreign workers, the hiring and lobbying practices of big business
have big results. The relentless pursuit of the bottom line, whether through
offshoring or packing payrolls with immigrants eager for an American job at any
wage, lowers the living standard of all citizens.
BILL GATES SAYS HIRING AMERICANS (Legals) IS DISGUSTING
WHEN THERE ARE BOATLOADS OF IMMIGRANTS WILLING TO WORK FOR ONE-THIRD LESS!
THERE ARE NO BILLIONAIRES THAT DO NOT WANT AMNESTY, NO E-VERIFY, AND OPEN BORDERS TO KEEP WAGES
DEPRESSED TO THIRD-WORLD LEVELS!
BILL GATES FIRES EMPLOYEES AND THEN DEMANDS
AMNESTY TO KEEP THE MEX HORDES JUMPING OUR
BORDERS!
AMNESTY TO KEEP THE MEX HORDES JUMPING OUR
BORDERS!
ZUCKERBERG
tech says no to hiring AMERICANS
OPEN BORDERS AND
ENDLESS HORDES OF IMMIGRANTS POURING IN IS ONLY ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED
To
cite just one example, if there is a shortage of U.S. engineers, are 1.5
million Americans with engineering degrees either unemployed or working in
other fields? In all too many cases, U.S. tech companies prefer foreign workers
on temporary visas because they are cheaper and more exploitable than
Americans.
AMERICA: NO LEGAL NEED APPLY!!!
It started the day Obama moved into the
White House and commenced the perpetration of his “hope & change”.
24,639,000: Record Number of Foreign-Born Hold Jobs in
U.S.
"We could cut
unemployment in half simply by reclaiming the jobs taken by illegal
workers," said Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, co-chairman of the
Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. "President Obama is on the wrong side of the
American people on immigration. The president should support policies that help
citizens and legal immigrants find the jobs they need and deserve rather than
fail to enforce immigration laws."
The Employment
Situation of Immigrants and Natives in the Second Quarter of 2013
That
President Obama would lawlessly bring in more cheap labor at the request of corporate
interests at a time when tens
of millions of Americans are unemployed speaks volumes.
MEXICO and OBAMA’S CONSPIRACY to destroy America’s borders to build the LA RAZA WELFARE STATE in AMERICA and keep wages depressed with endless hordes of heavy breeding Mexicans pouring over our borders.
(THE BELOW FIGURES ARE A DECADE OLD. SINCE THEN WAGES HAVE NOW BEEN DEPRESSED 40 YEARS AGO!)
“The principal beneficiaries of our current immigration policy are affluent Americans who hire immigrants at substandard wages for low-end work. Harvard economist George Borjas estimates that American workers lose $190 billion annually in depressed wages caused by the constant flooding of the labor market at the low-wage end.” Christian Science Monitor
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