[Sir Napsalot]

These guys sit on "Conference Board", yet their representative Gad Levanon didn't understand supply and demand?

If companies have to pay out higher wages and better benefits to attract the tight supply market, more Americans would be flocking to the "software developer" field.

Unless Gad Levanon and the group he represents have the intrinsic bias that FOREIGN workers have better training/what-nots than Americans.

I think, business groups like the Conference Board just want foreigners with H1-B visas at their mercy, the businesses can pay them lower wages and dangling the green card applications to keep them on their plantations.

[Sir Napsalot]

Sorry about the title, one letter got cut off.

Business Group Complains....

[DuncanWaring]

Sounds like one of yours.

[Alberta's Child]

Here’s my dumb question:

STEM fields by definition are almost universal in nature. I would think the biggest concern for the U.S. would be the out-migration of STEM industries to foreign countries.

Why would a U.S. employer bother hiring Americans — or even H-1B immigrants — if it’s easier and cheaper to do the work in India or the Philippines?

[srmanuel]

This is a very good thing....

I’ve seen it first hand, American IT workers making really good middle class wages, in the 80-100k per year, living in Florida a low tax state.....get let go but in order to get a severance package have to hang around and train their replacements....most of whom come from India on H1-B visas to get trained and return to India and work for a fraction of what the US worker was making...

We have plenty of IT workers who are as talented as any in the world, but these companies have to pay them a competitive US wage which they can absolutely afford

[stars & stripes forever]

If President Donald Trump can push his H-1B reforms into 2021, he will dramatically increase the marketplace power of U.S. college graduates.

The ANTI-AMERICAN Business Conference Board wants U.S. college graduates to be peons, not TECH innovators and future business leaders.

[Lod881019]

Always looking for cheap labor it’s the neocon way

[central_va]

a smaller supply of workers tends to raise wages and salaries.

Billionaires complaining about paying free market wages for American labor. Shocking.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

he will dramatically increase the marketplace power of U.S. college graduates, complains a top manager at the Fortune 500 business group the Conference Board.

This is a good thing, for American college graduates. Only a free traitor could have a problem with this.

[Cowboy Bob]

How many high-tech billionaires would there be if their companies had to pay the workers a competitive wage?

[jpsb]

Cool, maybe I’ll come out of retirement.

[exDemMom]

If American workers are all displaced by cheap foreign labor, then who will have any money with which to buy all of those high tech gadgets?

None of these high tech companies with their love of cheap foreign labor ever seem to consider that.

[freedumb2003]

NOT Bab Bee.

This headline/sub could read:

“Business leadrers complain US Policy helps US graduates
...admit H1B workers taking jobs from qualified US workers”

[freedumb2003]

Also the subheading could read:

“Software quality and resilience go up 1,000%”

[dforest]

RAT run education in America has created generations of people who know very little. They have mostly been indoctrinated with social justice hogwash and are of very little use.

You see some of that product out acting like big babies and self righteous idiots causing havoc all over the place.

Education is America is a disgrace and so unfair to the young. They have been cheated and abused. Kids of politicians and the very wealthy get to escape the abuse of those that have destroyed American education.

[FLT-bird]

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.

[RideForever]

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.