Once again, we get the idiotorials and biased research trying to claim immigrants are critical to the U.S. economy. Every single time, U.S. workers are ignored, the underemployment of U.S. citizens is discounted, and most of all, the wholesale, institutionalized age discrimination that fires workers over the age of 35 and replaces them with a steady stream of cheap young labor from other countries is endorsed.
the vast majority of these returnees were relatively young. The average age was 30 for Indian returnees, and 33 for Chinese…
Wadhwa is referring to the workers leaving the United States and returning to their home countries. Note the focus on the keyword young. The implication is if one is experienced, older, magically their talents are no longer worthwhile. This is age discrimination at it’s best and interwoven through the United States technology companies. Somehow, these companies now believe one loses their ability to even tie their own shoes when one hits age 35.
Senators and Congress Representatives: How would you feel if you were told you were over the hill and could not be in the U.S. Senate as a result? That is is what is going on in technology companies today.
What Wadhwa fails to note is the United States has a glut of PhDs and massive underemployment in these same occupational areas. Wadhwa refuses to acknowledge the American brain drain . That’s right, that’s U.S. citizens, U.S. talent. (amazing isn’t it in a country of 300 million we too could generate a few brilliant people). By promoting policies which continually fire Americans, replace them with guest worker Visas, even deny U.S. citizens access to higher education, those American innovators are denied the opportunity to contribute to their country. This is what is really happening in the United States. Corporations and policies are denying those very Americans, the innovators of the economy, a chance to hone their skills and even earn a living!
When one represses their own people to such a degree, in favor of promoting another country’s workforce, how long will it take before that first world country becomes a 3rd world one and vice versa? That’s what is really going on. These sorts of biased reports which really promote global labor arbitrage, are just speeding up that process.
Even more ridiculous is the claim immigrants generate jobs, as if guest worker Visa holders can even legally start a company or Americans cannot start companies and generate jobs. Even more odious is the mis-categorization of U.S. citizens as guest workers!
This is complete intellectual dishonesty. Many of these people who are claimed to be immigrants are actually U.S. citizens, often who came to the United States as children or are children of others who immigrated long before guest worker Visas existed!
There is clearly serious Academic bias even to the point of using a product, not statistically relevant, such as linked in, to collect raw data, as if that by itself is not statistically flawed.
The attack upon U.S. workers, Americans is endless and it’s clear even our universities are now enabling the assault.
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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 also forget these other countries have engineering and tech jobs….just like the United States.
My question is: Why are you not covering the plight of the U.S. Tech worker?
Is it somehow ok for a person who has worked very hard all of their lives, has advanced skills, advanced degrees to go homeless, be foreclosed on, lose their health care, have nothing for retirement, sit idle, not have enough food to eat?
That is what is going on! We have had suicides people become so despondent. Through no fault of their own, their careers, their livelihood are cut short and they cannot find another job, simply because they are over the age of 35 or not a guest worker. This is for jobs in their own country.
Do you think it is right to let America’s Best and their Brightest, the U.S. tech workforce, be treated this way? Literally being discriminated against for jobs in their own country?
How about focusing in on the U.S. workers for a change and having some compassion and sympathy for them. It’s only America’s future we’re talking about here. An underclass of highly educated and skilled workers who are losing their careers and livelihoods due to global labor arbitrage.
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Guest workers are supposed to be temporary. To fill a temporary labor shortage when there are not enough U.S. workers. Or at least that’s the rhetoric. Of course the law is quite different.
So, one would think that first to go in layoffs would be the temporary guest workers. Not so! Microsoft is laying off 5,000 workers and additionally none in India. Of course Microsoft lobbies for more cheap labor which displaces U.S. workers so these massive layoffs are the height of hypocrisy.
Mr. Steve Ballmer Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond , WA 98052-6399
Dear Mr. Ballmer: I am writing to inquire about press reports that Microsoft will be cutting approximately 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months. I understand that the layoffs will affect workers in research and development, marketing, sales, finance, legal and corporate affairs, human resources, and information technology. I am concerned that Microsoft will be retaining foreign guest workers rather than similarly qualified American employees when it implements its layoff plan. As you know, I want to make sure employers recruit qualified American workers first before hiring foreign guest workers. For example, I cosponsored legislation to overhaul the H-1B and L-1 visa programs to give priority to American workers and to crack down on unscrupulous employers who deprive qualified Americans of high-skilled jobs. Fraud and abuse is rampant in these programs, and we need more transparency to protect the integrity of our immigration system. I also support legislation that would strengthen educational opportunities for American students and workers so that Americans can compete successfully in this global economy. Last year, Microsoft was here on Capitol Hill advocating for more H-1B visas. The purpose of the H-1B visa program is to assist companies in their employment needs where there is not a sufficient American workforce to meet their technology expertise requirements. However, H-1B and other work visa programs were never intended to replace qualified American workers. Certainly, these work visa programs were never intended to allow a company to retain foreign guest workers rather than similarly qualified American workers, when that company cuts jobs during an economic downturn. It is imperative that in implementing its layoff plan, Microsoft ensures that American workers have priority in keeping their jobs over foreign workers on visa programs. To that effect, I would like you to respond to the following questions:
What is the breakdown in the jobs that are being eliminated? What kind of jobs are they? How many employees in each area will be cut?
Are any of these jobs being cut held by H-1B or other work visa program employees? If so, how many?
How many of the jobs being eliminated are filled by Americans? Of those positions, is Microsoft retaining similar ones filled by foreign guest workers? If so, how many?
How many H-1B or other work visa program workers will Microsoft be retaining when the planned layoff is completed?
My point is that during a layoff, companies should not be retaining H-1B or other work visa program employees over qualified American workers. Our immigration policy is not intended to harm the American workforce . I encourage Microsoft to ensure that Americans are given priority in job retention. Microsoft has a moral obligation to protect these American workers by putting them first during these difficult economic times. Sincerely, Charles E. Grassley United States Senator
Maybe it is a coincidence, yet Microsoft is delaying their Iowa data center. Doesn’t it seem like it appears in response for Senator Grassley stating the obvious? That Microsoft is trying to punish Iowa by delaying only their business in Iowa?
(but Iowa, take heart, obviously Microsoft wasn’t planning on hiring too many Iowans in your state from their immature, vindictive, retaliatory attitude!)
Microsoft Corp. has delayed plans to build a $500 million data center in West Des Moines.
West Des Moines City Manager Jeff Pomerantz said he received a call from Microsoft on Friday morning, telling him that plans for the data center have been postponed.
(Note Microsoft blames the PC business, uh huh, you’re building in other states to get your state tax incentives).
Even worse, Microsoft whipped out the immigration attorneys trying to claim having U.S. workers preferred for jobs in the United States is somehow discriminatory…..against foreign temporary guest workers (not Americans of course!).
More articles on this no brainer, temporary workers are supposed to be temporary, latest Microsoft labor arbitrage move. (Best and the Brightest? Try most gullible and cheapest!)
