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In reply to the discussion: Offshoring is all about excluding American workers from the job market. Plain and simple. [View all]DCBob
(24,689 posts)26. That has not been my experience.
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
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Professor Norm Matloff's H-1B web page: H-1B work visa is fundamentally about cheap labor
antigop
Apr 2012
#34
In my opinion, the Clintons are probably personally profiting from their business ties
JDPriestly
Apr 2012
#9
Well, technically that is the policy. H1B'rs supposedly provide unique qualifications..
DCBob
Apr 2012
#11
H-1Bs aren't indentured servants. They're paid the prevailing wage & can change employers at will.
leveymg
Apr 2012
#23
Wrong. Once a new petition is filed, an H-1B worker can "port" to his next job.
leveymg
Apr 2012
#25
Are you an H-1B worker or someone with working knowledge of nonimmigrant visas?
leveymg
Apr 2012
#28
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
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
H-1B doesn't discriminate any more than US service workers abroad discriminate against Indonesians.
leveymg
Apr 2012
#38
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
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
OK, we should credit the BNP with coming up with that slogan (at least the British version of it).
pampango
Apr 2012
#44
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