The study looked at unskilled and semi-skilled occupations only. The greatest pay differential was with janitorial supervisors ($8.94), and the least was with waiters/waitresses ($0.11).
I’m confused - how could they compare the guest workers to American workers in the same job? After all, we’ve been told for years that they’re doing the jobs that Americans won’t do.
Whoda thunk it…and we thought all those companies were lobbying for more HB-1 visas just because they enjoyed hiring people with limited English and poor customer service skills.
A simple way to kill the guest worker program(s) is to implement a tax on the company that hires foreign workers, so that it raises the cost of the job to median +10%
.........”there’s little evidence of a labor shortage in the fields where they are employed, a study contends.”
NO STUFF! Almost 100 million out of work, given up looking for work, and it took a study to figure it out.
ULTIMATE
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That is why Cruz wanted to bring more H1B Visa workers in.
Cheap labor for the cheap labor express.
Be interesting to see the numbers for the degreed professionals who are foreign guest workers.
Now it seems that being able to speak Vietnamese, Chinese, and Hindi are requirements to advance stateside in the tech sector. “Oh, I’m so sorry, we need someone fully capable of speaking with our offshore solutions team.”
But, then that's a no-brainer.
Well, no s***-the construction/remodel crew I work on/with is starving for work because companies from the city hire green cards and so can underbid us, even out here in BFE-the dude ranches and other tourist traps hire them, too, even though here just about all of us are willing to clean rooms, cut grass, muck out stables and work in a kitchen-you know-do those jobs Americans supposedly won’t do...
Best Headline of The Day . .
Why would businesses be lining up to import them otherwise?