Democrats are the supposed to be the party of labor, and exploitative hiring destroys labor.
Flooding the market with imported labor from around the world reduces the bargaining power of U.S. workers. Workers will not be able to organize if they become too easily replaceable due to sheer numbers of available indentured workers.
In 2011, the GAO completed a study for Congress that concluded a mere 6% of H-1B visa recipients are "Fully Competent" with 54% of H-1B visa recipients being "Entry Level" workers. Tragically many disenfranchised US workers, as their last official duty of being an employed US worker, had to train their replacement in order to receive a severance package.
The GAO has found that the H-1B program has only unenforceable and laughably easy to circumvent U.S. worker protections.
Why are Democrat elected officials, including our president, cheering proposals to expand this program which clearly is detrimental to the voters who entrusted them to look out for the best interest of U.S. citizens. It is baffling!
bipartisan I-Squared bill would allow 300,000 H-1B visas every year
Obama backs immigration reform for skilled tech workers
Government Accountability Office Report - PDF
With this GAO report at their disposal, why are so many democratic representatives in Washington, including the president pushing for an expansion of this awful H-1B visa program to replace and bypass U.S. skilled tech workers?
bipartisan I-Squared bill would allow 300,000 H-1B visas every year
Obama backs immigration reform for skilled tech workers
I can see the Republican party fighting to bring in cheap indentured labor to benefit the business community to the detriment of U.S. workers, but with this report at their disposal, why are so many Democrats doing the same. Isn't the Democratic party supposed to be the party of labor? Why are we helping the GOP destroy the U.S. middle class?
Unlike some other temporary visa programs, the H-1B program does not
require employers to provide evidence that they have first “tested” the U.S.
labor market by trying to hire a U.S. worker.
In the H-1B program, only those employers that are designated as H-1B-dependent or willful violators are subject to any type of labor market test. However, these employers need only attest, rather than demonstrate, that they took good faith steps to hire a U.S. worker.
Yes, just mark this checkbox saying you can't find U.S. workers, then you are free to replace as many U.S. workers as you want with imported indentured workers!
Among the top H-1B-hiring employers—those approved for large numbers
of H-1B workers—are employers that function as “staffing companies,” (i.e., employers that apply for H-1B workers but ultimately place these workers at the worksites of other employers as part of their business model, many of which also outsource work overseas). Some foreign owned information technology (IT) services firms have publicly stated that their ability to provide IT services to U.S. customers depends in part on access to significant numbers of H-1B and L-1 visa workers. Ultimately, the prevalence of these employers participating in the H-1B visa program is difficult to know because there are no disclosure requirements and Homeland Security does not track such information.
Does anyone notice that the U.S.worker plays no part in these staffing companies business model. We will not even know that the job opportunity exists.
Several executives at IT staffing firms we interviewed noted that, since
issuance of a January 2010 Homeland Security memo,44 Homeland Security is more aggressively enforcing a requirement that staffing firms be able to provide evidence of an employer-employee relationship with the H-1B worker they sponsor by, for example, having a contract with their clients in place. Executives from staffing firms told us they often cannot have a contract in place because they provide labor on short notice to their client firms. As a result of the increased enforcement of this provision, executives at one staffing firm told us that they no longer hired H-1Bs for their staffing business, and executives at several other staffing firms reported that they had ceased hiring new H-1B workers, hiring instead only foreign nationals already in the country with a current H-1B visa.
Executives at some companies who already had an offshore location reported expanding the portion of their work conducted overseas, and others reported that they had either opened an offshore location to access labor from overseas or were considering doing so.
Does anyone notice, from the above GAO observation, that these staffing companies, many with the exclusive contracts to provide staff to our major government agencies and well known companies, will find any way to avoid hiring U.S. workers?
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