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With H-1B Cap Hit, Zuckerberg and Ballmer-Led Groups Press For More Tech Visas
theodp writes: With the FY2016 H-1B visa cap reached in the first week of April (only the USCIS knows how many applications were submitted by outsourcing companies and from Bentonville, AR), it's no surprise that groups like Mark Zuckerberg's FWD.us PAC and Steve Ballmer's Partnership for a New American Economy Action Fund are pooh-poohing Jesse Jackson's claims that foreign high-tech workers are taking American jobs, and promoting the idea that what's really holding back Americans from jobs is a lack of foreign tech workers with H-1B visas.
This has nothing to do with creating American jobs, and everything to do with driving down the cost of hiring people so that billionaire douchebags can run companies at a higher profit by making sure they pay Americans less money since they now have to compete with someone from India for a lower salary.
This is the big players distorting the labor market by lobbying politicians to allow them to change the playing field.
How many US tech workers are currently under or unemployed? And how many of them have these companies considered hiring?
Instead they write a job description which is impossible, or geared to bringing in a specific foreign worker.
This whole foreign worker crap is basically big corporations forcing wages to go down by bringing in people who will work cheaper.
As I said, billionaire douchebags. And this is more or less theft on a grand scale because people keep buying into the notion that what is good for companies is good for everyone else.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
As has been said here many times before. It isn't that companies can't get qualified American workers, it's that they can't get qualified American workers for the low wage they want to pay.