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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]Zalatix
(8,994 posts)54. I can't believe you tried to refute the facts with that.
How about the fact that companies keep getting BUSTED for underpaying their H1B visa workers?
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/Outsourcer-Stiffs-H1B-Temp-Workers-for-Millions/
Do you have an explanation for that?
Also, do you have an explanation for why Senator Bernie Sanders sees the same thing I'm seeing?
Why would companies be cutting American workers and hiring H1B workers in their place? Oh and before you say that it's because H1B workers are "the best and the brightest":
http://www.cis.org/h1bs_not_best.html
In summary: We do not have a shortage of high quality American workers. And companies are getting busted for doing exactly what you say cannot happen.
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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