Cringley: H-1B Visa Abuse Limits Wages and Steals US Jobs

walterbyrd sends this snippet from an article by Robert X. Cringely: "Big tech employers are constantly lobbying for increases in H-1B quotas citing their inability to find qualified US job applicants. Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates and other leaders from the IT industry have testified about this before Congress. Both major political parties embrace the H-1B program with varying levels of enthusiasm. Bill Gates is wrong. What he said to Congress may have been right for Microsoft but was wrong for America and can only lead to lower wages, lower employment, and a lower standard of living. This is a bigger deal than people understand: it's the rebirth of industrial labor relations circa 1920. Our ignorance about the H-1B visa program is being used to unfairly limit wages and steal — yes, steal — jobs from U.S. citizens."

Comments

so what?

[Anonymous Coward]

Jobs shouldn't have a nationality and national boundries are overrated anyway.

Re:Immigration Is Good

[macbeth66]

Hey1

Careful where you sling that truth!

This is slashdot where reason and the truth almost count for nothing...

Re:Here here! Well said.

[lgw]

No one deserves a "living wage" or any wage except what someone is willing to pay. No one deserves anything from another, except to be left alone when desired. It's on you to gain some skill that others need so much that they'll pay well for it!