University Employees Suspended Due To Guest Worker Scandal

sethstorm writes: By sponsoring employees for use at an IT staffing firm, Wright State University may have broken new ground in guest worker fraud. According to the Dayton Daily News, 19 individuals were sponsored by the university yet ended up working for WebYoga, a firm controlled by (now-suspended) top Wright State officials. They also cited Wright State's exemptions regarding prevailing wage law and H1-b limits as attractive qualities. This has implications not only for the existing workforce, but to students that see the university putting its own staff ahead of them.

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wow

[Goldsmith]

Department of Labor required international staffing agencies to pay a minimum of $61k for developers in Dayton. These guys (also in Dayton) paid $40k. Do the students know this was going on? Did the academic senate know this was going on? The staffing company paid the university to make this contract happen. Wow...

Why do universities have an exemption for these rules at all?

Re: Sounds normal

[phantomfive]

We got bought out by Paychex, but even that couldn't help us get any experienced people.

Pay more. If you can't get experienced people, it's because you're not paying enough.

Re: Sounds normal

[PopeRatzo]

Just like it happened in the auto industry, workers got used to high wages and are unwilling to consider the actual value of their contribution in a world where programming is now a commodity, so they end up replaced by cheap labor from a developing country.

This kind of thinking is why US workers are in such deep shit. There are people who actually believe that setting a price for your labor is somehow bad.

When a company sets a price on a product based on a desired level of profit, it's considered "the Free Market". But when a worker does the same thing we're told it's bad for everyone.

It's the Stockholm Syndrome, and the supply-side is holding you hostage. You think everyone's wages should be on a runaway train to the bottom of the barrel. What's funny is how many of these same people think it's just horrible that low-wage workers come across to border to pick lettuce. It just may be that programming is the new farm labor and has become another job that US workers don't want to do, at least at the price that's on the table.

Sooner or later, someone will figure out that labor comes first. It precedes capital. There is no capital without labor to make it happen. When you reverse the hierarchy, economies (and societies) suffer.

Re: Sounds normal

[Intrepid imaginaut]

the problem with "pay more" is that there's often a huge discrepancy between what a company can afford and what experienced people think they're worth.

It's a problem which fixes itself pretty quickly as the experienced people run out of money. Except they don't seem to be running out of money so someone must be paying them what they think they're worth. Therefore the problem isn't with them.

Re: Sounds normal

[PopeRatzo]

Someone putting his money at risk to run a business is a piece of shit, while the people who get paid by the week for their time are the real heroes.

If someone is "putting money at risk" it's because someone, somewhere - did some real work.

Don't take it from me, listen to Abraham Lincoln:

"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...

Re:I've learned a bit about what "unqualified" mea

[BVis]

Bullshit. Most jobs that require a degree could competently be done by a high school dropout with some additional job training.

Employers want people with degrees because it's harder to quit when you're staring six figures of student loan debt in the face, so they can work you harder, pay you less, and generally treat you like shit.