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DCBob

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26. That has not been my experience.

Reply to leveymg (Reply #25)

Fri Apr 20, 2012, 09:30 AM

Apr 2012

Maybe we are talking about different visa categories.

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Offshoring is all about excluding American workers from the job market. Plain and simple. [View all] Zalatix Apr 2012 OP

Ditto for importing foreign labor via H-1B or L-1 visas Larkspur Apr 2012 #1

Professor Norm Matloff's H-1B web page: H-1B work visa is fundamentally about cheap labor antigop Apr 2012 #34

Clinton's free-trade advocacy is hitting labor where it lives antigop Apr 2012 #2

Nail her to the wall on what benefits she says we receive from this. Zalatix Apr 2012 #7

In my opinion, the Clintons are probably personally profiting from their business ties JDPriestly Apr 2012 #9

HILLARY CLINTON (D-PUNJAB)’S PERSONAL FINANCIAL AND POLITICAL TIES TO INDIA antigop Apr 2012 #17

Careful, JD. You might be called a "hater" or something. n/t antigop Apr 2012 #18

Does IBM plan to reduce US headcount by 78% by 2015? antigop Apr 2012 #3

" We have a right to fight back..." --- the Dems need to get behind this issue! antigop Apr 2012 #4

This election year, THAT needs to be our rallying cry. Putting pressure on both loudsue Apr 2012 #5

Clueless in the White House antigop Apr 2012 #6

Well, technically that is the policy. H1B'rs supposedly provide unique qualifications.. DCBob Apr 2012 #11

You might want to look at this. Zalatix Apr 2012 #13

H-1Bs aren't indentured servants. They're paid the prevailing wage & can change employers at will. leveymg Apr 2012 #23

A H1B worker who is sponsered by a company cannot leave that company until.. DCBob Apr 2012 #24

Wrong. Once a new petition is filed, an H-1B worker can "port" to his next job. leveymg Apr 2012 #25

That has not been my experience. DCBob Apr 2012 #26

Are you an H-1B worker or someone with working knowledge of nonimmigrant visas? leveymg Apr 2012 #28

Thats possible. DCBob Apr 2012 #29

Cheers! leveymg Apr 2012 #31

It doesn't save companies money to hire H-1Bs? Wrong. Please look at this. Zalatix Apr 2012 #41

The $52K is the lowest of a 4-level wage system - entry level, no exper. $96K is the mean wage paid leveymg Apr 2012 #45

article about Apple jobs overseas ctaylors6 Apr 2012 #8

The reason we lost out is we don't do slave labor here. Zalatix Apr 2012 #10

yes, but each employee is given tea and a biscuit ctaylors6 Apr 2012 #15

I give them all bad raps for this shit. Zalatix Apr 2012 #16

oh I agree but Apple could get all that built here in US ctaylors6 Apr 2012 #19

K&R n/t OhioChick Apr 2012 #12

DUrec!!! bvar22 Apr 2012 #14

kick n/t antigop Apr 2012 #20

Your premise is wrong: US has long enjoyed a net surplus in trade in services, unlike manufacturing leveymg Apr 2012 #21

Your graph shows a HUGE loss of manufacturing jobs and a SMALL rise in service jobs Zalatix Apr 2012 #32

First part is right - services steady, massive deindustrialization. But, service exports are leveymg Apr 2012 #33

Where are the jobs for the tons of Americans who can't get into those few "highly paid" service jobs Zalatix Apr 2012 #35

Those manufacturing jobs have been offshored, and the savings pocketed by the 1% leveymg Apr 2012 #36

H1B visas outright discriminate against American workers Zalatix Apr 2012 #37

H-1B doesn't discriminate any more than US service workers abroad discriminate against Indonesians. leveymg Apr 2012 #38

H-1B workers aren't "cheap labor"? Uh, the facts disagree with you. Zalatix Apr 2012 #39

Please see #45, above. As for leveymg Apr 2012 #48

I can't believe you tried to refute the facts with that. Zalatix Apr 2012 #54

Technical glitch. Double posted. Self-deleted. leveymg Apr 2012 #55

That article is from June of 2007. Underpayment of H-1Bs has not been a recent, widespread problem. leveymg Apr 2012 #56

2007? You think that companies aren't still trying to find cheap labor this way? Zalatix Apr 2012 #57

Oh, they'll hire Americans just fine hobbit709 Apr 2012 #22

Displacement is illegal, proving displacement has been made impossible. uponit7771 Apr 2012 #27

Why do you hate Chinese people Hugabear Apr 2012 #30

And from the product after they ruin our environment running it to the water to ship it to China. lonestarnot Apr 2012 #40

it's a deliberate strip mining of our populous' wealth for the time the elites choose to flee NuttyFluffers Apr 2012 #42

American jobs for American workers eh? Sea-Dog Apr 2012 #43

OK, we should credit the BNP with coming up with that slogan (at least the British version of it). pampango Apr 2012 #44

Gordon Brown (New Labour) MichaelMcGuire Apr 2012 #46

Part of a ugly politics that is popular with the right-wing-nuts Sea-Dog Apr 2012 #47

LOL. You've made a sale! nt Romulox Apr 2012 #50

Economic justice = racism! That's what you mean to imply, right? nt Romulox Apr 2012 #49

dispite the saleble words whats it like sharing the same platform as the right? Sea-Dog Apr 2012 #51

And yet *you* are the one who shares an economic ideology with rightwing think-tanks CATO and ALEC. Romulox Apr 2012 #52

I except your surrender Sea-Dog Apr 2012 #58

A series of pathetic and over-the-top posts supported strictly by a South Park clip... Romulox Apr 2012 #59

You're right varelse Apr 2012 #53