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Complaints Filed Over Firms Seeking H1-B Holders
Vicissidude writes "Since May, the Programmers Guild has filed 100 complaints with the U.S. Department of Justice, accusing several companies of advertising that they specifically want H-1B workers, a violation of U.S. law. The U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act requires that U.S. jobs must be available to U.S. workers. The complaints stem from ads containing wording such as "We require candidates for H1B from India," and "We sponsor GC [green card] and we do prefer H1B holders," the Programmers Guild said. The Programmers Guild, looking for ads on major online job boards, has so far targeted only ads seeking computer programmers, the guild said. It plans to file 280 more complaints over the next six months."
"carde blanche?" "nip this in the butt?" Are you intentionally botching expressions to be funny, or are you new to the English language?
Perhaps you would get an edge on the H1B workers if you learned to read and write, instead of just sounding out all your spelling phonetically (based on poor hearing, at that).
No, I'm not being a grammar nazi--maybe a "completely wrong word nazi," but this is an extreme case!
A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
The US is the only country that hires foreign skilled labour?
No, I don't give a rip what other countries do or don't do. I only care about the country I was born in. The rest of the world can die in nuclear fire as far as I care. The United States in the 1930s and 1940s enacted a series of laws that in the 1950s created the first real middle class- of anywhere in the world in any era. H-1bs and other guest workers are part of the class warfare to dismantle the middle class- and that is wrong.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
Try this on for size...maybe the H1B visa wasn't meant to be CARTE blanche but it certainly seems to be fitting that bill now and the companies that benefit will certainly do everything they can to buy assurances from our elected officials that the situation won't change. If you want to nip it in the BUD, then you better get working towards helping get someone elected who won't be in big business' back pocket. Maybe you could run when you learn English?
I reserve the right to think for myself. Others' opinions are optional. Puppy on lap = typos...not illiteracy.
Pity is worth nothing. Economics is the new warfare- and at the rate Bush's free trade policies are giving away our land to the Chinese, I think IndoChina will become a new empire- after which they will simply kill the people and recolonize.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
You do realize that before labor unions and labor/consumer protection laws guilded age robber barrons had pushed the median (not just mean.. but MEDIAN) wages down below $9000 a year in today's dollars
this "artificial inflation of wages" concept is nothing but the same baseless excuse lassez faire elitists use to wage war on the middle class.
If youre so much for the free market why don't we apply those same principles to corporations. The concept of "limited liability" artificially inflates investment.. why not get rid of this impediment to the free market and make corporate owners and investors liable for the legal and moral transgressions of the company as a whole?
don't like that do you? well dont be a hyppocrite and attack the worker side of the economy the same way.. corporations already have regulations in place which are protectionist and artificially inflate their investment capital and market power. The workers deserve something to balance this equation or we end up a third world nation with no middle class.
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Why do you fear immigrant labor? There are jobs Americans won't/can't do and the H1b visa program partly addresses this issue,at least in the tech world.America needs immigrant labor despite your nativist fears.Why is it always people of color coming here and working that upsets your types so? Mexicans Asians Africans....Do they threaten your "White Privlege"?
"carde blanche"?
"nip this in the butt"?
How can you screw up so many colloquiums? Can you teach me?
> hardworking and highly skilled American engineers have a tougher time finding a job
And what is the problem with that?
If someone can do your job cheaper than you can, then they deserve it over you. They have to eat too, you know - they're just as much a human being as you are, and they have families to feed and house just like you do. You do NOT have any intrinsic right to the job over them.
Heaven forbid you might have to actually compete with the rest of the world on a level playing field. I guess that would be too much to ask of you. Well, guess what - it's a global economy now, and either you learn to compete, or you learn to enjoy asking "paper or plastic?".
Americans walk in thinking they are owed a job, while foreign workers who have suffered much hardship in their life work three times harder than American workers.
Perhaps corporations are consistently disappointed in the low quality of American basic education (with such poor quality that the USA president was forced to pass the 'No Child Left Behind' Act), followed by drunken party - undergrad degrees, followed by poorly focused - industry ignorant masters degrees? All from ivory towers lacking real connections to real world job skills?
More and more you see corporate leaders that rise up through the ranks, they have 'street smarts' first, then a weekend executive MBA.
I was just listening to a person describe how they earned an advanced PhD., only to spend three years looking for work, eventually landing a tech writer job, that she could have had with just a B.S. degree.
It's high time that Universities stop simply gouging fat margins out of their students, and actually provide them with industry centered, ready to work, focused job skills.
Sure, you can still send young minds to unrelated but required electives, but the core of their educational experience has to put bread on the table, pay back student loans, and support the breeding and feeding of future students.
India, China, and other economies are growing so fast, the USA could end up a jobless 4th world nation in 20 years...
Are you under the impression that the Democrats would change anything if in power? That is so cute. I'm pretty much convinced that strict single term limits are the only answer. Career politicians from both parties are equally bad, just in different ways.
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Wow. This, sir, is truly a most unusual juxtaposition of viewpoints. I'll go so far as to say it's perhaps the most unusual one I've ever seen.
It's a very common one among those who have studied what happened in the Pacific Northwest between 1830-1833.
But let me say this. My dad is an award-winning economist (Jonathan Hughes Prize, actually) and he's a good man, and I've taken an introductory class myself, though it's been a while. Still, I know a few things. Economics is a science. It has laws. True, they are not as solid as the Laws Of Physics, but they're just as true.
Then why have they been failing for 40 years? Why did they fail the Kalapayu 170 years ago?
And the truth is that free markets, by and large, make peoples' lives better, not worse.
Tell that to the Kalapayu, if you can find any. Oh yeah- most of them died off because their economic competitors brought Malaria to Oregon.
Your rhetoric about how "markets never did any good for anybody" is extremism of the most ridiculous and absurd variety. What did help people then? Sustanance farming?
It's at least more honest than the con game of making money off of charging people usury.
People don't trade in a market , whether they're trading corn or computers or labor or lemons, unless both parties gain something.
Then why has the US trade balance been negative for the past 30 years? Yes, some people gain something- a small minority.
You may groan about your soul-sucking job, but the fact is that you'd be far worse off without it.
My people had the Salmon, the Hazelnut, the Wild Sunflower, Wapato and Camas, long before your "free market" ever existed. We should have protected it better. Now, we just have slavery.
My father has argued that free trade is a fundamental human right:
Then your father is a traitor to his nation and his family.
If someone in Cuba has something to sell me, and I want to buy it, what business has anyone stopping us?
And when that throws your neighbor out of work and he kills you for food, are you going to accept that consequence as well?
Anything else is simply coercing us
Traitors deserve to be coerced. If you don't like it you should move to Cuba.
You argue "protectionism!" to build a strong local economy. Why must it be local?
Because any economy where you can't kill the person who cheats you is evil.
Are the people overseas less deserving of jobs, and the progress of the modern world?
Let them invent their own technology, create their own progress, just as we did.
Ah, I am sure you will argue about "what progress?"
Well, let's see- work 32 hours hunting and gathering vs 40-60 hours in a factory- which is more free?
and tell us of how they are so terribly exploited and make only sixty cents a day in a factory - but you have missed the alternative, that they were making the equivalent of thirty cents a day doing sustainence farming beforehand. Ah, you will say, but the companies, the evil companies of course, they are going to pass all the savings along to the CEOs, those rich evil bastards. In a truly free market, though, another company will gladly spring up doing the exact same thing, but NOT pay the CEOs a bunch of money, until the other company goes out of business (or changes).
Money means nothing if you're homeless and can't eat. And you're wrong- because once money starts accumulating, money will use the power of government to take away more freedom.
Markets are not there to make your life better.
That's the first thing I agree with- and because they're not, I have little to no use for them.
They are there to make everybody's lives better
But they're not, are they? As long as there is one loser who gets cheated, not everybody's life is getting better.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
Programmer's Guild. Sounds like Minutemen for geeks.