Posted on 11/07/2014 10:53:35 AM PST by 11th_VA
Labor brokers providing Indian high-tech workers to American companies have hijacked a professional visa program, creating an underground system of financial bondage by stealing wages and benefits, even suing workers who quit.
About 840,000 people from around the world work in the United States on temporary visas, intended to help companies seek uniquely talented employees for specific jobs. In the tech realm, labor brokers often sponsor the visas, then contract out the workers to technology companies or government agencies to build databases, test software and complete other technical projects.
For decades, critics have sounded alarms about immigrant tech workers being treated as indentured servants by the worst of these staffing firms, known as “body shops.” In a yearlong investigation, The Center for Investigative Reporting has documented why this exploitation persists – through humiliation, intimidation and legal threats. Judgments against Indian workers sued for quitting their US jobs can exceed $50,000.
One worker called it an “ecosystem of fear”...
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Worse...it depresses the wages of domestic engineers/scientist.
College students seeking a career decide NOT to get a CS degree ‘cause the rewards (salary) isn’t worth the effort. We are eating our own seed corn.
Good maybe the damn dot heads will stop coming over here(yeah, I know, fat chance).
They multiply like flies around here taking jobs from hard working Americans. They don’t know how to use a bathroom either the damn heathens. It’s disgusting what I’ve seen.
College students seeking a career decide NOT to get a CS degree ‘cause the rewards (salary) isn’t worth the effort. We are eating our own seed corn.
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Correct, and the CS degrees are not preparing them for real world jobs. The only ones that have a chance are the ones that get internships. It is too easy to out source when your workers can be anywhere on the planet and on demand.
Actually, CS degrees are still hot. We have a 100% placement rate for our CS grads. Indian programmers are getting scarce because the pay in India has gone up so much.
The problem with that?
Many Indian programming students have limited skills in Hindi. They are raised English-only.
If the Republican nominee campaigns on the platform to end H1-Bs, they will lose the Chamber of Commerce but he/she will win 45+ states.
All part of the corporatist agenda - unlimited illegal immigration from south of the border to crush working-class wages, cheap educated labour from India and Pakistan to keep the lid on technical/profession job wages.
I think if these companies want to employ cheap Indian labour, they should contract the work out to India. Of course, that often doesn’t work out so well, but that’s not my problem.
While there are a few positions which might require finding a foreign expert to fill, most of the time “can’t find suitable employees here” just means “can’t find suitable employees willing to work for peanuts here.”
H1B / corporate socialism bump for later....
Didn’t say the CS degree wasn’t hot...If you doubled the pay for CS graduates more students would consider it as a career. One reason the pay doesn’t double is that foreign students depress the wage. ECON 101
What keeps people from being CS majors is usually the inability or unwillingness to write code.
grin
Same with Chemistry or Biology degrees.
Every pharmaceutical and chemical company now has dozens if not 100s of Patels working for them. Once you get a few of them in a department, they drive the non-Patels with their nasty ways. And once a Patel gets a supervisor or manager position, they only hire other Patels.
But don’t worry, I am sure someone will soon post on how Indians are the Perfect Immirgrants
I worked in a shop that had an Indian branch. We would code during the day and the Indians took over at night. We would spend the first part of our day fixing their crap. They may be great at theoretical design and some have Sql skills but overall their programming skills suck.
Me and C+ didn’t mix too well when I tried a class back in mid 90s. Really haven’t tried much since.
It’s much harder now than when I was in school. I doubt I could do the meaningless crap that have to do.
Business IT class - write an app that moves a train across the page. Show me the business application.
many of them lack imagination. If it produces anything, they consider it complete.
I was working with some guys we had as our “outsourced” IT support. They were pretty nice. But, many times I could fix issues faster than they could and would have to backtrack on a lot of what they did and said.
But, they were cheaper.
How much cheaper when you start adding up the rework is never addressed.
Son as a friend who is a programmer for a company and makes the same observations. They outsource the application, then have in house programmers fix it. Instead of doing it right to begin with.
Early 2000 career shift and I went to my local community college...In my first CS class had to code a clock...soon after that I decided to get into another field, cause frankly I SUCKED at the CS side. I was fairly good at routers and hardware but the CISCO certification was a bridge to far. It’s mostly a hobby now.
I’d bet the Canadian company that did Barry’s website used them.
12 years ago, while working at Qwest, an employee was fired for sending a company wide e-mail, protesting this abuse of the vast H1-B employee population working at Qwest.
It isn’t just job-brokers, but their Indian employers who are exploiting them.
Quite likely with the consent of the Indian gov’t.
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