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The H-1B Swindle
An anonymous reader writes "A new study shows that companies hire foreign workers for cheap labor, not skill." From the article:"When you look at computer job titles by state, California has one of the biggest differentials between OES salaries and H-1B salaries. The average salary for a programmer in California is $73,960, according to the OES. The average salary paid to an H-1B visa worker for the same job is $53,387; a difference of $20,573 ... H-1B visa workers were also concentrated at the bottom end of the wage scale, with the majority of H-1B visa workers in the 10-24 percentile range. 'That means the largest concentration of H-1B workers make less than [the] highest 75 percent of the U.S. wage earners,' the report notes. "
One of the goals of the Reagan "Revolution" was to destroy the Unions. One of the tactics was to import compliant, cheap labor. This was supposed to bring us higher growth rates. The H1-B is the perfect worker for the "new world order": can't form a union, can't vote.
The sad thing is, the college educated Democrats are more focused on gay "marriage" than helping the American working man.
Nah, white people are a violent, troubled minority. The source of almost all crime and the majority of terrorist attacks. They are unpatriotic (less likely to defend their country in the armed forces) and overpaid.
Kick the bums out, I say!
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My brother works for a fortune100 company in the deep south.
.com bubble none of you wanted to work for a reasonable wage. Why should he care now? In his view the H1B1 visas only brought in qualified workers for the averate rates and it was never about a way to cut costs.
.com rush so he prefers indians unless he can find a good american to do the job.
He only pays H1B1 visa wages based on average salary employees in his county. The american programmers refused to work for under 70grand a year for jr software development jobs. The average pay for a jr programmer is around 34k a year. So he hired indians for 40k a year to get it done. Plain and simple.
Still above the average pay scale I may add.
Then he gets all angry when he reads slashdot and hears software developers complaining. IN the
Now the situation is improving and programmers with 10 years of experience are willing to work for 30k (pay went down) but still the Indians are usually more qualified and proved their loyality during the
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I second that. You don't have to give them raises, you can cut their benefits, you can spit on them, they'll still love you and kiss your butt because it is much much better than having to get back home. I have seem that many times. But once a few of them get their green cards and make their way into management they become nasty and vicious. At the expense of burning all my karma and offending all the Polital Correctness whores, I'll say that would never want to work for a Chinese, Indian or Russian boss. They've been kicked around as graduate students or as H1B workers and then they feel like they need to pay back and want to fuck everyone around them who is not from thier own part of the world.
Since when does spelling on a weblog validate the competence of American workers?