Extra, Extra! We need H-1B guest worker Visa reform! http://blog.noslaves.com/extra-extra-we-need-h-1b-guest-worker-visa-reform/ Cyberactivism on Trade, Economics and Labor Arbitrage Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:28:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 Extra, Extra! We need H-1B guest worker Visa reform! http://blog.noslaves.com/extra-extra-we-need-h-1b-guest-worker-visa-reform/#comment-253 David Sat, 06 Oct 2007 18:46:10 +0000 http://blog.noslaves.com/extra-extra-we-need-h-1b-guest-worker-visa-reform/#comment-253 They took away our manufacturing and said, "America is bright and inventive and will create new industries!" We created the IT industry and they took it away through outsourcing and H1-B visas. The problem is clearly not a lack of character on the part of the American people, but a lack of character on the part of American corporations, and on the part of the US Government who make it easy for these corporations to strip-mine American industry. If Americans are doing nothing, it is because the fruits of our labor are stolen from us at birth by government-backed big business. The problem is, most Americans aren't facing the fact that the days are numbered for the American middle-class. If they did, they would be getting out of debt rather than taking on more. How they think America can BUY its way out of trouble when our country no longer really PRODUCES anything is a testament to complacency, denial, and gullibility. They took away our manufacturing and said, “America is bright and inventive and will create new industries!” We created the IT industry and they took it away through outsourcing and H1-B visas. The problem is clearly not a lack of character on the part of the American people, but a lack of character on the part of American corporations, and on the part of the US Government who make it easy for these corporations to strip-mine American industry. If Americans are doing nothing, it is because the fruits of our labor are stolen from us at birth by government-backed big business.
The problem is, most Americans aren’t facing the fact that the days are numbered for the American middle-class. If they did, they would be getting out of debt rather than taking on more. How they think America can BUY its way out of trouble when our country no longer really PRODUCES anything is a testament to complacency, denial, and gullibility.

]]> Extra, Extra! We need H-1B guest worker Visa reform! http://blog.noslaves.com/extra-extra-we-need-h-1b-guest-worker-visa-reform/#comment-249 info_tech_guy Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:42:17 +0000 http://blog.noslaves.com/extra-extra-we-need-h-1b-guest-worker-visa-reform/#comment-249 The lies coming from business, academic and political “leaders” supporting this alleged “high tech worker shortage” are sickening but the press seems to content to repeat these lies without challenge. The middle class job situation is horrible… There’s nothing for displaced workers to retrain into when all middle class occupations can be targeted for offshore outsourcing or replacement by imported “guest workers”. It’s like “1984″ where lies become the official truth. The lies coming from business, academic and political “leaders” supporting this alleged “high tech worker shortage” are sickening but the press seems to content to repeat these lies without challenge. The middle class job situation is horrible… There’s nothing for displaced workers to retrain into when all middle class occupations can be targeted for offshore outsourcing or replacement by imported “guest workers”. It’s like “1984″ where lies become the official truth.

]]> Extra, Extra! We need H-1B guest worker Visa reform! http://blog.noslaves.com/extra-extra-we-need-h-1b-guest-worker-visa-reform/#comment-248 jonqgraduate Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:39:09 +0000 http://blog.noslaves.com/extra-extra-we-need-h-1b-guest-worker-visa-reform/#comment-248 I found this site and want to tell you that yes, this whole labor shortage myth is just that: a terrible myth that is destroying peoples lives. For the past two years I have been working as a sw engineering consultant (I have a Masters degree in CS)at a startup which has a team of engineers reporting to an H-1b from Russia who has a doctorate in - get this– POLITICAL SCIENCE! And he is a real JERK, making us code shit when he has no fu****g clue and then I am the one left to mop up. But not for long. He has taken away most of my work now and given it to his friends in Russia to do and is paying them less than me. He is giving ‘hints’ of getting rid of me soon. I have a mortgage, three kids, and my wife (also an engineer) does not work anymore as she too, has been discriminated against and her work outsourced so many times that even her former contacts have left the area. We live in California, the area that is supposed to be the premiere area for innovation and yet, the companies here prefer hiring people from outside our country. I found this site and want to tell you that yes, this whole labor shortage myth is just that: a terrible myth that is destroying peoples lives.

For the past two years I have been working as a sw engineering consultant (I have a Masters degree in CS)at a startup which has a team of engineers reporting to an H-1b from Russia who has a doctorate in - get this– POLITICAL SCIENCE! And he is a real JERK, making us code shit when he has no fu****g clue and then I am the one left to mop up. But not for long.
He has taken away most of my work now and given it to his friends in Russia to do and is paying them less than me. He is giving ‘hints’ of getting rid of me soon.
I have a mortgage, three kids, and my wife (also an engineer) does not work anymore as she too, has been discriminated against and her work outsourced so many times that even her former contacts have left the area.
We live in California, the area that is supposed to be the premiere area for innovation and yet, the companies here prefer hiring people from outside our country.

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