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Senator Prods Microsoft On H-1B Visas After Layoff Plans
CWmike writes "US Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) told Microsoft this week that US citizens should get priority over H-1B visa holders as the software vendor moves forward on its plan to cut 5,000 jobs. '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,' Grassley wrote in a letter sent Thursday to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. The letter asked Microsoft to detail the types of jobs that will be eliminated and how those cuts will affect the company's H-1B workers."
Reader theodp adds, "On Friday, Microsoft coincidentally announced it would postpone construction of a planned $500 million data center in Grassley's home state of Iowa, although work on data centers in Chicago and Dublin will continue."
However, the impact of losing the job is much higher for H1Bs,
In business there is always the trade-off between "upside potential" and "downside risk." The upside potential for H1Bs is the pay and the life style in the U.S.A. the downside is rapid loss if they lose their jobs.
Screw the foreigners, send them home. If they can get a green card or become citizens, then "Welcome to America" otherwise, work in your own damn country.
Yes because a intelligent, hard-working, and self-reliant would vote for an old man with cancer and a inbred bimbo for a VP that would likely become president. It just makes so much sense!
how surprised? a republican doesnt like foreigners. sounds normal to me. i think you are reading way too much into it.
"You can kill the revolutionary, but you can't kill the revolution."-- Fred Hampton
It's that exact selfish attitude that will downfall the USA if it's taken too far. The world is a global economy and focusing just solely on your own country will hurt other countries in the short term and in the long term also hurt the USA>
Well, the flip side is that many Democrats and economic progressives profess to believe in free speech, but typically they only mean free speech so long as you agree with them.
What is a communist? A socialist in a hurry.
The government did not bring anybody to the US. The companies did. So, yes, it is a free market.
"You can't allow somebody to commit the crime before you detain them." [Condoleezza Rice]