Today there are a flurry of stories in the press on American workers being outraged because corporations are firing U.S. workers and keeping their temporary foreign guest workers.
Guess what. Corporations have been replacing U.S. citizens, U.S. workers with temporary guest workers for quite some time now.
This is not the best and the brightest or worker shortage or skills we cannot find, it is outright labor arbitrage. Corporations fire U.S. workers and replace them with guest workers because it’s cheaper and also for their offshore outsourcing agendas.
The scenario goes like this. A U.S. worker who is highly skilled, exceptional job performance hits say age 35. Magically a younger worker on a guest Visa needs to be trained by that experienced worker. Then, magically that U.S. worker is fired.
Bloomberg and Reuters while acknowledging these corporations are keeping H-1B and L-1 foreign guest workers and firing Americans, go on and on about the plight of being unemployed for a H-1B Visa holder.
Wake Up Journalists!
It is not like if a H-1B goes home, magically they fall off the edge of the world. There are some very nice U.S. savings which go pretty damn far in costs of living in many of these countries. And you…
