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makes it abundantly clear why CEOs/Board Members want a perpetual and massive supply of cheap labor. How dare wages and productivity come closer again.
Posted on 07/01/2020 4:19:11 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
OF COURSE it will push up wages for Americans. That’s the whole point.
What happens next?
Well....more young Americans decide to go into those high paying fields instead of taking something like Womyn’s Studies or African Studies or Philosophy, Political Science, hell - Liberal Arts in general - and instead go into those fields. Viola! Labor shortage resolved!
Magic!
That’s exactly how the free market works. Flooding the market with cheap foreign labor is not the free market. That’s rigging the game against Americans in their own country. That needs to be stopped.
They tried that. They found out the hard way that its not so easy to outsource lots of things. Its especially means a loss of control for managers and C-level executives. Its so much easier to walk down a row of cubes and duck in for 5 minutes to check up on your employees and/or to be able to stand there both looking at the screen discussing how you want something done anytime that is needed than it is to schedule a skype call to India and still not have the direct contact you would have if your team was located a 30 second walk away from your office.
So senior managers......are you comfortable having much less control over your business?
The universal answer is “Hell No!”
Thus their desire to import a flood of cheap labor.
I’ve seen it first hand at several large banks. Everybody keeps talking IT and I keep screaming ITS NOT JUST IT!
I have seen lots of regular ole accounting and finance jobs at the major banks filled with H1b Indians. There are lots of roles that only tangentially involve tech....the types of roles a frikkin’ English major could be trained to do without too much difficulty, filled by H1b Indians. The major corporations claiming these are “tech” roles are just doing so as a dodge. They aren’t. They just want as much cheap labor as they can import so as to crush the bargaining power of Americans in their own country.
Let's keep in mind that the REAL reason to bring H1B immigrants to America -- from the standpoint of every major corporation, government official, and public employee union in this country -- is that these immigrants all represent new customers to replace the Americans who aren't reproducing. And on top of all this, the U.S. is likely to be $25T-$30T in debt by next year, and we basically need a massive influx of peasants to pay off these legacy costs from several generations of Americans who simply couldn't afford our standard of living but enjoyed it anyway.
It’s what I know for sure to be true because I worked in IT for over 30 years....
I have no doubt the H1-B visa scam affects any number of different professions....
No it makes sense. But they get their pound of flesh
Foreign workers are only part of the immigration problem.
This should be part of a Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement bill, missing since 1986 ONE TIME amnesty. The List of Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement, missing since 1986 goes like this -
1) southern barrier;
2) require eVerify to hire;
3) end all chain migration;
4) birthright per Minor v. Happersett (plural parents);
5) end work visas;
6) 10-year moratorium on all new applications for citizenship (40 years to allow workplace automation effects on downsizing population);
7) Set up an illegal aliens’ victim restitution fund.
Enactment of these provisions will motivate illegal aliens to SELF-deport, and remove colonizadors from our welfare rolls.
Your question was answered in post #42.
Thanks for posting, FRiend!
“Who is doing more to Make America Great Again here — me or my former employer?”
You. Who had a greater percentage of H-1Bs in their workforce — you or your former employer?
“our uptime, availability and reliability dramatically improved vs. Infosys and WiPro almost immediately after not renewing those contracts. Yes, it takes a little longer to implement new systems however they’re done right without performance or downtime related issues (bugs, configuration issues) and our KPI’s show it.
“IMO one of the best things that’s happening to this country is not allowing cheap foreign labor (which is NOT cheaper when properly accounted for!) to displace American workers in any industry. American workers are the best. Period.”
Bears repeating.
...complains a top manager at the Fortune 500 business group the Conference Board...
Partisan Media Shills update.
That will never happen. My company is listed on the Dow and is guttless.
It is a large, high tech aerospace defence company and it has a goal to have 50% Women managers in the next 5 years.
When I went to college for aerospace engineering in the 1980’s, my entire class was 5% women. There were almost as many gay males in my engineering class than women.
I don’t know where all of these women managers are going to come from, but it won’t be from engineering. Good looking women in a male dominated company find a man pretty quick and want to have kids and live the good life.
If you know of any Lesbian engineers, we are hiring (in the worst aerospace economy, ever)
Interesting. For the past few weeks, my inbox is silent. There’s nothing out there.
Poli-Sci, Sociology and EDU, same place as all the women in IT Management.
Most large American companies have already been there/done that/bought the T-shirt with "low cost" asian outsourcing.
My company probably wasted at least a $Billion on "Low cost" asian outsourcing over the last 20 years with very little to show for it.
Now we are trying Puerto Rico.
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